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Airbus A320neo family
|A320neo family
|Airbus A320neo prototype after its first flight
|Narrow-body jet airliner
|National origin
|First flight
|25 September 2014
|October 2015 (scheduled)
|Test flights / early production
|Number built
|Unit cost
|Developed from
|Airbus A320 family
The Airbus A320neo family is a family of aircraft under development by Airbus replacing the predecessor A320 family (now A320ceo (current engine option)).[3] The letters "neo" stand for "New Engine Option" and are the last step of the modernisation programme A320 Enhanced (or "A320E") which was started in 2006. In addition to the neo, the modernisation programme also included such improvements as: Aerodynamic refinements, large curved winglets (Sharklets), weight savings, a new cabin with larger luggage spaces, and an improved air purification system.[4][5] Customers will have a choice of either the CFM International LEAP-1A or the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G.
These improvements in combination are predicted to result in 15% less fuel consumption per aircraft, 8% lower operating costs, less noise production, and a reduction of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions by at least 10% compared to the A320 series, as well as an increase in range of approximately 500 nautical miles.[6] A rearranged cabin allows up to 20 more passengers[7] enabling in total over 20% less fuel consumption per seat.[8]
Airbus has firm orders for the A320neo family totaling 2,523 as of November 2013.[9] Orders passed the 3,000 mark during the 2014 Farnborough Airshow in the UK. The first A320neo rolled out of the Airbus factory in Toulouse on 1 July 2014.[10] The first flight of the aircraft took place on 25 September 2014.[11]
A320 Enhanced[edit]
Airbus had been assessing the successor to the A320 family with the option of a completely new aircraft or a re-engined and updated one. In 2006 Airbus started the A320 Enhanced (or "A320E") programme as a series of improvements to the A320 family. The improvements include aerodynamic refinements, such as adding large curved winglets (Sharklets) with 3.5% fuel burn improvements, weight savings, a new cabin, and engine improvements.[4] Although these engine improvements were fitted into the A320 in 2007/2008 with the CFM56 Tech Insertion and the V2500Select (One), they were estimated with improvements of only 1-2%, which finally led to Airbus's decision of going with the new engine option, abbreviated "neo".[12][13][14]
"Who's going to roll over a fleet to a new generation aircraft for 5% better than an A320 today? Especially if another 10% improvement might be coming in the second half of the next decade based on new engine technology," said John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer and executive member, in 2006.[4]
The A320 Enhanced as well as the A320neo will also include some modifications to the wing, mainly the installation of blended winglets called "Sharklets"[15] which were announced on 15 November 2009 by Airbus[16] to A320s (and A320neos) commencing in 2012 with launch customer Air New Zealand.[17] These Airbus winglets, which are 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in) tall and weigh 200 kilograms (440 lb),[18] would reduce fuel burn by 3.5% and offer increases in payload of 500 kilograms (1,100 lb), or range by 100 nautical miles (190 km) at the original payload.[19] This corresponds to an annual CO2 reduction of around 700 tonnes per aircraft,[16] saving operators US$220,000 per aircraft per year.[20] The Sharklets are to be manufactured and distributed by Korean Air Aerospace Division.[21]
Enhanced Cabin[edit]
A new cabin was fitted, offering better and larger luggage storage[22] and a quieter cabin, packaged with a more modern look and feel. A new air purification system with filters and a catalytic converter removes toxic fumes and unpleasant smells from the air before it is pumped into the cabin.[23] Additionally, improved cabin efficiency by a new galley concept, reduced weight, improved ergonomics and food hygiene and recycling requirements.[24] LED ambience lighting is optionally available. Anytime LEDs are used for the Passenger Service Unit (PSU)[25] and the flight crew can control the cabin through new touchscreen displays.[26]
The new "Space-Flex" optional cabin configuration includes a new rear galley configuration and "Smart-Lav" lavatory design; increasing space-efficiency.[27] It allows up to 9 more passengers for the A320neo and – with larger, relocated exit doors ("Cabin-Flex") – up to 20 more passengers for the A321neo without "putting more sardines in the can".[28] Fuel efficiency per seat is increased by 6% with this option, together with the new engines in total exceeding 20%.[8]
A320neo: New Engine Option[edit]
On 1 December 2010, Airbus officially launched its successor to the A320 Enhanced, the A320neo "New Engine Option". The choice for new engines include the CFM International LEAP-X and the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G.[29][30][31] Though the new engines will burn 16% less fuel, the actual fuel gain on an A320 installation will be slightly less, since 1–2% is typically lost upon installation on an existing aircraft. Overall this means an additional range of 950 km (510 nmi), or 2 t (4,400 lb) of extra payload.[32]
Airbus' CEO was said to be "comfortable" with the projections of 15% lower maintenance cost for the Pratt & Whitney's PW1000G family, compared with today's engines.[29] Airbus is targeting October 2015 for the first delivery and plans to deliver 4,000 A320neo over 15 years. Virgin America became the launch customer with a firm order of 30 A320neo aircraft as a part of a 60 aircraft order on 17 January 2011.[33] However, in November 2012 they deferred the deliveries of the A320neo aircraft until 2020, making ILFC the new launch customer along with the A321neo.[34] Airlines' choices between the two engines are almost equal.[35]
The first Airbus A320neo rolled out of the Toulouse factory on 1 July 2014.[36]
Airbus states that the A320neo Family incorporates latest-generation engines and large "Sharklet" wingtip devices, which together will deliver a total of 15 percent in fuel savings;[37] this includes the use of "Sharklet" winglets which are able to decrease the fuel consumption by 3.5% to 4% due to the decrease of wingtip vortices and drag.
The A320neo has over 95% airframe commonality with the current A320 with 91% commonality in tooling; the airframe is made with new materials such as composite materials and more aluminium alloys, which helps save weight and thus fuel consumption.[38] Also, the new materials will reduce the total of parts of the plane, which will decrease the maintenance costs.[37][39]
Delivery advancement[edit]
Contrary to most recent airliner developments with partly years of delay (including competitors Bombardier CSeries, Comac C919, Irkut MS-21, postponed development of Boeing Y1/737 MAX), the A320neo delivery was advanced to October 2015 from second quarter 2016.[40] Its first flight was advanced to September 2014.[41] The 95% commonality with the A320 helped eliminating the risks associated with too many modifications in one shot.[42]
Airbus has decided to offer three advanced variants of the A320 family with the "New Engine Option." The A319, A320 and A321 will all be developed further while the A318 is not expected to be offered as a "neo," although that may change in the future.[43]
- A319neo: Qatar Airways is the launch customer.[44]
- A320neo: ILFC is the launch customer.[34][45]
- A321neo: ILFC is the launch customer.[45]
+ undisclosed
Since its launch in December 2010 the A320neo has received "above 2,000 NEO orders in a little over two years after launch" making it the fastest selling commercial aircraft in history.[46][47] Significant orders include 150 aircraft from IndiGo,[48][49] 200 from AirAsia, 130 from American Airlines and 174 from Lion Air. The A320neo is planned to enter service in October 2015 with ILFC, 27 years after the first A320 was delivered. This will be followed by the shrunk A319neo and later by the stretched A321neo.
At the Paris Air Show 2011, Airbus announced that they had orders from GECAS, Scandinavian Airlines, TransAsia Airways, IndiGo, LAN Airlines, AirAsia and GoAir.[50] A few months later, Lufthansa became the aircraft's first German customer, ordering 30 examples.[51] On 14 March 2013, the airline ordered 70 additional A320neo and A321neo aircraft.[52] Airbus also received commitments for 83 A320neo aircraft from Air Lease Corporation and AviancaTaca. A month later American Airlines ordered 130 A320neo's on 20 July 2011, which would cause the airline to cease having an all-Boeing fleet. The order placed on 23 June 2011 by the Malaysian low-cost carrier AirAsia was announced as the largest commercial aviation order at the time.[53] At the 2011 Paris Air Show, the A320neo received a combined total of 667 orders and 83 commitments. The Dubai Airshow in November 2011 saw a further total of 130 orders and 105 commitments by several customers. AirAsia has placed the largest order ever of the A320neo, consisting of 200 aircraft. On 25 January 2012 Norwegian and Airbus confirmed an order of 100 A320neo.[54] Pegasus Airlines, the second largest airline in Turkey, has signed for up to 100 A320neo family aircraft, of which 75 (57 A320neo and 18 A321neo models) are firm orders.[55] easyJet, who already operates 195 A320ceo family aircraft, announced on 18 June 2013 an intention to acquire 100 Airbus A320neo for delivery between 2017 and 2022. As part of the deal, easyJet have options on a further 100 A320neo aircraft.[56]
Specifications are preliminary until design is finished.
|Cockpit crew
|Seating capacity
|156 (1-class, maximum)
134 (1-class, typical)
124 (2-class, typical)
|189[57][27] (1-class, maximum)
164 (1-class, typical)
150 (2-class, typical)
|240[28] (1-class, maximum)
199 (1-class, typical)
185 (2-class, typical)
|Seat pitch
|28 in (71 cm) – 29 in (74 cm) (1-class, maximum)
|28 in (71 cm) – 30 in (76 cm)[28] (1-class, maximum)
|Seat width
|18 in (46 cm)
|Cruising speed
|Mach 0.78 (828 km/h/511 mph at 11,000 m/36,000 ft)
|Maximum speed
|Mach 0.82 (871 km/h/537 mph at 11,000 m/36,000 ft)
|Maximum zero-fuel weight (MZFW)
|60.3 t (133,000 lb)
|64.3 t (142,000 lb)
|75.6 t (167,000 lb)
|Maximum landing weight (MLW)
|63.9 t (141,000 lb)
|67.4 t (149,000 lb)
|79.2 t (175,000 lb)
|Maximum take-off weight (MTOW)
|75.5 t (166,000 lb)
|79 t (174,000 lb)
|93.5 t (206,000 lb)
|Maximum fuel capacity
|23,859 L (5,248 imp gal; 6,303 US gal) standard
29,659 L (6,524 imp gal; 7,835 US gal) optional
|23,859 L (5,248 imp gal; 6,303 US gal) standard
29,659 L (6,524 imp gal; 7,835 US gal) optional
|23,700 L (5,200 imp gal; 6,300 US gal) standard
29,684 L (6,530 imp gal; 7,842 US gal) optional
|Maximum range, fully loaded
|4,200 nmi (7,800 km; 4,800 mi)[58]
|3,700 nmi (6,900 km; 4,300 mi)[58]
|3,650 nmi (6,760 km; 4,200 mi)[59]
|Engines (×2)
|CFM International LEAP-1A or Pratt & Whitney PW1100G
|Fan diameter
|PW: 81 in (2.06 m), LEAP-1A: 78 in (1.98 m)
|PW: 24,000–35,000 lbf (110–160 kN), LEAP-1A: 24,500–32,900 lbf (109–146 kN)
Source: Airbus,[60][61][62][63] Airliners.net, Flightglobal.com, Pratt & Whitney,[64] CFM International.[65]
See also[edit]
Related development
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era
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External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Airbus A320neo.
|Airbus A3xx aircraft production timeline, 1970s–present
|Airbus A300
|Airbus A310
|Airbus A320 family
|Airbus A320neo family
|Airbus A330
|Airbus A330neo
|Airbus A340
|Airbus A350 XWB
|Airbus A380
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- Jason Lilly
- Poca, WV
- United States
Teacher - English, West Virginia Department of Education
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Why should listening be taught as a skill in school?
Julian Treasure proposed an excellent problem in his video about listening. Why isn't listening taught in school? Young adults are surrounded by noise and distraction. Could this be an obstacle to problem-solving and mediation in our world? What do you think?
Topics: education
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Aug 22 2011: My mother runs a daycare out of our home, and probably the biggest challenge with the children is their listening skills. You can tell them something and they simply will not have any idea of what you had said a minute before. Perhaps they are just rude, but I doubt it, they most likely haven't acquired a good listening skill yet.
Listening is a skill; an art. It is so valuable, that human life depends on it. Children should be taught proper listening skills in pre-school and kindergarten. Not only will this help them academically, but socially as well. Listening is clearly associated with problem solving and being able to retain knowledge.
Everybody needs to know how to listen. In a world crisis, which is quite possible, people will need to be able to listen and understand simple commands like "quiet"! An 8 year old child should know to listen to adults, because one day, if their country is being invaded, or life is being threatened; when somebody puts their forefinger to their lips and says "shhhhhh" you need to listen or else you and everybody else is dead. Listening is a vital and effective defensive mechanism.
Aug 23 2011: I agree with your first two paragraphs. However, I think listening first needs to be learned AT HOME....but to be honest,parents often do not really listen to their children as they are too busy to stop what they are doing to look their child in the eye and listen to them'; or they are too busy multi-tasking and then really just hearing them. Howeverf, this "listening problem" has been around for decades and maybe even centuries, but now I think more and more parents (and any relatives in the family, really), are not always listening to each other due to technology. And to answer the OP's question, yes, we should teach listening or continue to teach it in school, but unless it it reinforced in the home, it iwould be for nothing.
Now in regards to your last paragraph... isn't that a bit dramatic???? YIKES!!!!
Aug 23 2011: I agree that it does need to be taught at home as well; and it seems as though parents aren't facing that responsibility. As far as the last paragraph, it could be written into a screenplay :] however it is quite likely that something quite like that could happen. I mean, look at history. Had children not been strong enough or had the skills to survive, far more people would have died in the Holocaust, Israeli Conflict, Genocides in Sudan. Listening is a survival skill.
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SAUK VILLAGE | A Cook County judge Wednesday sentenced a man convicted of sexually assaulting and killing a Sauk Village teen in 2008 to 75 years in prison.
Timothy Easley, 24, of Sauk Village, was convicted Jan. 9 of first-degree murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault, according to a news release from the Cook County state's attorney's office.
Brashai Griffin, 15, was last seen leaving her Sauk Village house April 2, 2008, to meet Easley, who she had previously dated. She told friends she was going to meet Easley at night, according to the release.
Griffin's mother arrived at their house at 10:30 p.m. and called police when she saw her daughter wasn't home.
Griffin's body was found April 4, 2008, by a search team. The body was naked and submerged in Plum Creek in a wooded area near 223rd Street and Torrence Avenue in Sauk Village. She had been strangled, police said.
Sauk Village police previously said they thought Griffin was killed after refusing to have sex with Easley, who was 18 at the time of the killing.
Easley and Griffin attended Bloom Trail High School in Chicago Heights.
Investigators previously had said that DNA would be key in the case. According to the release, DNA taken from Griffin during an autopsy tied Easley to the killing.
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A couple of years ago, Eric posted a short article here about Wal-Mart coming to Menifee. There have been several comments posted, including one today from an anonymous person claiming that Wal-Mart is slated for the corner of Ethanac and I-215.
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I just want to chime in that my information still says that Wal-Mart is slated for Scott Rd & I-215.
Wal-Mart Coming to Menifee
A couple of years ago, Eric posted a short article here about Wal-Mart coming to Menifee. There have been several comments posted, including one today from an anonymous person claiming that Wal-Mart is slated for the corner of Ethanac and I-215.
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- AnonymousNovember 05, 2007 3:47 PM
I hate Wal MartReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 08, 2007 8:00 PM
Yesterday I wrote. "Wal-mart will be the demise of Menifee Valley" And now it's gone. If it was purposly deleted, someone has some serious problems with censorship. If that was not proper, this site censores opinions. If it was not deleted, I apoligize for the rant.ReplyDelete
Your comment wasn't deleted. You're just looking in the wrong place.ReplyDelete
You posted that comment on an older article of ours dated, August 2005...
- AnonymousNovember 08, 2007 8:32 PM
I've just gotta laugh when I read comments like I hate Wal Mart, and Mal Mart will be the demise of Menifee Valley. Is Capitalism that bad??? If the majority of Americans love it, the company has got to be doing something right. If the company truly did stink, then they wouldn't be able to find employees to staff their stores and negative sales would cause the store to go out of business. America is America because of capitalism and the publics right to decide for themselves what is good and what isn't. Anything else sounds too much like communism, the minority telling the majority what to doReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 28, 2007 5:40 PM
You do know that 90% of Wal-Marts product come from Communist Countrys. Supporting Wal-Mart IS supporting Communism. Who knows, it might be true about the small children handcuffed to machinery.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2008 9:27 PM
Does anyone know what the latest news is on walmart at scott and antelope? Nothing seems to be happening there for some time.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2010 5:16 PM
okay, we are new to Menifee, and we love living here. However, wal-mart sent a flier in the mail. We are opposed to the wal-mart opening, due its history of sucking away business from the what we have already. They will take business from big-o, target, ross, tjmax, lowe's, pappa johns, subway, doctors of optometry, bring in more illegal alien workforce, hire on part-time basis, and is non-union, and that is just some of it. Menifee, is growing and we have a wonderful community for our older people and young families, The business owner's that live in the city deserve our support. Big O tires will sell less tires when Wal-mart comes and target will be a big empty store as wal-mart will temporarily drop prices to attract more business and rid itself of competition, while it will not pay a living wage to our residents. It will not use E-verify and those people will come. We live in Menifee for a reason and quality of life, we are diverse, we worship, we are respectful of our neighbors, we came for a safe place to raise our families and we have it now. But what will we have when Wal-mart, brings in low-wages, no union job protections, and peddles its China made products and exploits workers. That is why I am opposed as a new citizen of your citizen to Wal-mart.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2010 9:49 PM
No to walmart...every walmart I've been to attracts the wrong crowd. I too received that flyer in the mail claiming it would bring on so many jobs and great prices-bogus! why don't they mention that the longest the average employee lasts there is on average 6 months. Their turnaround rate is terrible. Their items are crap and so will menifee be with the type of people it's low price scam attracts. If we really need a walmart we can go to either one in Hemet or murrietta.ReplyDelete


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Say goodbye to old school popsicles, with their artificial flavors and lurid, mouth-staining colors. Say hello to ice pops in flavors like strawberry basil lemonade or vanilla peach spice.
The gourmet ice pops come from Pop Couture, a company started by Baltimore-area lawyers Justin Daniel
and his business partner Pete Stine and debuted at the Fells Point Farmers' Market three weeks ago, just in time for Baltimore's 100-degree dog days of summer.
Pop Couture ice pops are all natural and made with locally sourced or organic ingredients. Daniel says now is the perfect time to be in the gourmet ice pop business because people are increasingly conscious of what they are eating.
"Even it it's a treat, people want to know what's in it and where the ingredients came from," Daniel says.
Daniel and Stine, who both have families, met while working as lawyers and decided they wanted a business that would help them escape paperwork and put them out in the community with the public.
"We both loved making ice pops for fun, and we wanted to make a product we were passionate about," Stine says.
They turned their passion into a business this past April and now make about 400 pops per week in a commercial kitchen outside of the city.
Pop Couture's flavors change all the time.
"It depends on the fruits we can get at their peak of flavor. When we get great stuff, we find a way to make it into an ice pop," says Stine, who sometimes goes to local farms to pick the fruit he needs.
Flavors run the gamut from crowd-pleasers, like strawberry or blackberry, to the exotic, sour cherry balsamic or spicy pineapple habanero. Pop Couture tries to keep some basic fruit flavors in stock, but is always working on new combinations.Its flavors are works in progress and some are downright experimental.
"Blueberry lemongrass is probably our most unusual flavor combination to date," says Stine.
Avocado is also on Pop Couture's flavor list. "We're working on incorporating vegetables into the pops. Mango-carrot is a flavor we're experimenting with right now," Stine explains.
Pop Couture sells its pops at local markets and caters barbecues, pool parties, and other private events. Just last week, they put their umbrella-covered freezer on a freight elevator and catered a birthday party in a downtown office building.
"That was a lot of fun," says Stine.
Allison Dugdale and her husband Dan Harrison, of Fells Point, recently sampled Pop Couture's mint lemonade ice pop at the Baltimore Farmers' Market.
"It's excellent, not too sweet. Very real tasting," said Harrison, as he passed the ice pop to his wife.
"It's wonderful. It's like air conditioning for your mouth," said Dugdale. "And you can quote me on that."
What flavor popsicle would you like to try? Tell us in comments.
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Definición de fungus en inglés:
fungusSilabificación: fun·gus
Pronunciación: /ˈfəNGɡəs /
sustantivo (plural fungi /-jī, -ɡī/ or funguses)
1Any of a group of unicellular, multicellular, or syncytial spore-producing organisms feeding on organic matter, including molds, yeast, mushrooms, and toadstools.
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- Data about antioxidative systems in mycorrhizal fungi in pure culture and in symbiosis are scarce.
mushroom, toadstool;
mold, mildew, rust;
Biology saprophyte
1.1Fungal infection (especially on fish).
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- The Scottish Executive outlawed malachite green, widely used by fish farmers to treat fungus in salmon, on June 11.
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Fungi lack chlorophyll and are therefore incapable of photosynthesis. Many play an ecologically vital role in breaking down dead organic matter; some are an important source of antibiotics or are used in fermentation, and others cause disease. The familiar mushrooms and toadstools are merely the fruiting bodies of organisms that exist mainly as a threadlike mycelium in the soil. Some fungi form associations with other plants, growing with algae to form lichens, or in the roots of higher plants to form mycorrhizas. Fungi are now often classified as a separate kingdom distinct from the green plants
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Pyromelter said...
I'm sorry loop, I just disagree. Less randomness in dungeon/raid loot makes things better. For example:
-Badges of justice in the BC to help people fill in the slots they would get bad RNG for...
-...led into the emblem system in Wrath which became very popular...
-...which has led into the point system in Cataclysm, which is one of the really great things that blizzard has done in this expansion
-Goodie bags from lowbie dungeons (as mentioned above)
-Pvp has exactly zero RNG when it comes to loot, and pvp is intensely popular in wow.
apologies for the GW2 reference above, it was non-sequitor and very few people probably know what I meant. WoW has enough examples on it's own to support my hypothesis.
I think it's fine to keep at least some RNG for things like weapons and trinkets, so long as there are non-RNG ways to get upgrades but not-top gear at those slots, and that is another thing blizzard has done well at with cataclysm. Implementing a "goodie-bag" type reward system for finishing a raid or a portion of a raid would be a great way to remove some RNG, reward players, and also motivated players to try to finish a raid or portion of it. I think this is also something blizz got right with rewarding valor points after completion of dragon soul wings, versus individual bosses.


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Yesterday - being in a very bad place mentally - I decided to announce my twitter and tumblr retirement.
Essentially guys, I'm in the middle of a bit of breakdown at the moment. It is coming up to a year since I tried to kill myself and - I guess I've been thinking a lot on this anniversary and just how much has changed and how much I've achieved. The answer is I've achieved a lot - but with no reward. The question I've been asking myself today is are the means and the ends all that separate? I've come to the conclusion that they're not. The means and the ends are the same. I find just as much reward in doing, if not more, than I get from any sort of recognition or end product from it.
I apologise if people feel like this is some kind of attention grab or something - believe me it isn't. I make no bones about being quite mentally ill and - very volatile as a result. I am a volatile and impulsive person - but I'm trying to change this.
My potential return to university is a huge part of this. It was the first time I found something I wanted to do, and to stick to, and commit to in terms of a life's work. Yet it's proving difficult. I reached out for help on this and - well I got very little result. This was disheartening, you know. I've seen other less worthwhile causes garner huge support. I've seen companies and corporations generate huge incomes by begging people and the masses will lap it up - but a guy comes, with sincerity and cap in hand, begging and gets no response. It's very troubling to me. And it hurt. I still feel hurt now.
But that doesn't mean I should give up. If anything it means I should try harder. Quitting is for quitters, so I'm quitting quitting. The blog will remain, and my twitter account will stay active. That said, I'm going to take a break for a while, and I'm going to use them more casually. I'm going to use them the way I initially intended. To spread word of myself and be damned the consequences.
So what I am going to be working on in the meantime - well, check out http://www.youtube.com/mercer88 and find out! Needless to say it's relaxing, and nerdy and will be done between bouts of feeling terrible and desperately trying to claw my education from the mire of doom.
I'm also still writing, and I will keep updating my tumblr with new poems although blogging may take a bit of sideline - as it has for a long time anyway.
Either way, I'm still around - My accounts will remain - and I hope you will forgive my mental vulnerability and volatility. I'm a young man and I still have much to learn - I guess I always try to learn too much too soon.
Keep happy.
Peace and Love
Yesterday - being in a very bad place mentally - I decided to announce my twitter and tumblr retirement.
This blog is soon to be closed. It was fun while it lasted but it has got to the stage where it feels like I'm shouting in a soundproof booth and…While I want to continue writing it is going to be a huge distraction in what I need to do at the moment which is continually writer letters, fill in forms, and jump through hoops to get the opportunity many richer, healthier people take for granted.
It's very difficult not to turn this piece into a bitter rant and the only thing preventing me from doing so are the wonderful supporters have had during my time blogging here. To them goes my utmost and most sincere thanks.
I may return in future with a different blog - or I may be gone forever. Who knows. All I know is I'm sick of being an ignored beggar, and my own marketing department. I can't do it any more - I asked for help and I got little and where my soul is the price of success - as written in How To Win At Life - I'll never sell it.
Peace and Love
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<Insert quirky image from someone else>
Sorry - just trying to drive up popularity of this blog and it seems this is the vain, shallow shit that the masses indulge in these days. Maybe, you think, I don't follow and reblog enough people on here myself to merit it…Because apparently the objective worth of a content is based solely on how much the individual producing it wants to get involved in hollow fucking popularity contests. No outlet for a writer but holy shit if you're an anorexic cum-dumpster you're the pinnacle of vogue at the moment and you'll be reblogged far and wide. Or maybe you're one of those dickhead guys who likes to take angled shots of his abs. Hey congratulations you successfully purged the very humanity and soul from your body by spending all the time at the gym! What do you want? A fucking medal? You need a lethal fucking injection - you'd accept it too thinking it was fucking steroids you twisted android pseudo-human fuck. Try culture for a fucking change - instead of endless jogging and ab crunches. I mean it's great that you've extended your life span by a decade but it's kind of useless when you spent it all RUNNING ON THE SPOT ON A FUCKING MOVING BELT ON A MACHINE! That's great, you extended your life to spend it going nowhere.
So feel free to keep chasing your bullshit dreams - your nonsense fabricated life of vanity and the superficial. Keep chasing your ideals and dreams - keep getting money - ooh that one is important isn't it! BECAUSE YOU NEED THINGS! Can't live without things - shit you've got things to help you get more things. Crack out the latest iphone, pull up the brainless consumerism app and shop like a fucking beast! Get things - your life is empty without things! It's kind of made that way. If your life wasn't sculpted to be hollow you'd feel no need for those things. But you can fill in the gaps yourself. You just don't want to. You want the easy option that's actually harder. Work hard, get money, get things, be fulfilled. Such is life. You fucking horrible, superficial, tragic, vain bastards.
Dreams folded and molded in plastic the size of credit cards so they fit in your purses and wallets - and your heart the tiny chip that holds all your information - used only to spend.
Think back to the simple days of smiles and cigarette smoke wisping.
Whispering, telling jokes to friends.
Drinks flowing, days that never end
spreading enlightened laughter.
But Lucifer's fall left him forsaken.
What crime was there in believing in the truth of love over a faith in fear?
Banish the great one who dares challenge the totalitarian regime.
The unnatural order continues - Allowed by fools
who see the shadows run from light and believe the light to be the darkness.
Cast you judgments now, for soon there shall be none to judge.
Give your titles, call your names and insults.
Deny truth, deny reality, deny humanity for superstitions.
Call us the evil ones, for daring to bear the light.
Light bearers only dwell in darkness when you shade them.
I'm living the dream,
opportunity lays itself before my feet
in the guise of stacks of dead pulped trees,
all needing my blood.
Stick a piece of my past on them,
cross the Ts with a fountain pen of bygone miseries.
Not one shred of decency,
everyone wants a piece of me.
Staves of five lined paragraphs sing
sorry, bland, bureaucratic music.
Ticks and crosses come like percussive beats.
Punctuating the sorry melody with
needless pigeonhole drums
and contrary statements.
This human has been intentionally left blank.
The truth of life,
grown deep rooted,
and cut down,
and turned into medical evidence,
Supporting statements,
and certification.
Words given price-tags at cost per word -
not the cost of suffering to make them
or the value of the message conveyed.
Fascist Facsimile.
Solemnly the spirit whisped through bitter air
of secrets kept and tears wept.
Strength - he thought. Strength.
I must do this alone.
Head hung and huffing, the spirit ploughed forward.
"May I help?" cried a voice.
No! - replied the spirit.
Strength. I must do this alone.
Strength - The spirit continued, wandering the wilderness.
Obstacles littered his path - A ghostly dance.
Until, deathly weak, his step faltered.
Weakness - a fall.
I am but weakness and I am but failure. Fallen on this journey
and all fight gone and
Buried like my sorry, dead bones.
Weakness am I.
"Here," cried a voice, and an offering of kindly hand.
"Let me help you up."
and so did the spirit's arm
become flesh.
"What are you doing out here all alone? 'Tis folly!"
Strength - replied the spirit.
I am nothing
If I cannot make it alone.
The spirit ran - alone again. His arm now dead weight.
A slip and stumble - Weakness.
I am nothing - he thought.
I am nothing.
The hand reached out again. "I'll walk these woods with you
picking you up every step if needs be."
But strength - replied the spirit.
I need be alone.
Mile after mile, fall after fall, the spirit, crying, bleeding.
"I need you!" said the spirit to the helping hand.
Strength - Strength in unity.
"I need you!"
And thus became the spirit human.
When you used to care,
winds would sing to me like old warbling folk singers.
Soul kissing strings plucked delicately and percussive.
A warm embrace following a trudge through cold.
Yet here I stand now,
Frozen and alone.
Without your enveloping tune.
When you used to care,
a merry country dance took my heart.
Primitive yet civilised, rhythmic and rowdy.
My breathing rapid, my heart racing.
Yet here I sit now,
idle and alone.
Without your arms around me.
When you used to care,
we felt as one.
Yet here we are now.
Defeated and rueful.
Without a song and dance.
It's been a while since I have made any sort of formal announcement about any new piece of work - mainly because they all seem to falter somewhere around the first few thousand words and I change ideas. But this one seems to have stuck. I am enjoying the direction and the messages therein, and I am working hard on it. So, here are the details.
Punny titled 'Through the Cooking Gas (and What Alan Found There)' is the tale of a miserable young man named Alan, who decides to take his own life by sticking his head in the oven. A somewhat antiquated suicide method these days, but one that can still work, albeit mainly through asphyxiation than by toxicity (I checked my facts! :P)
His attempt, he believes, fails when nearly twenty minutes pass and he still is seemingly alive. He breaths a heavy sigh of despair and when his sigh appears to melt a hole in his wall he suspects he is suffering some hallucination effect and decides to go to bed. His bed, however, tells him to wake up and introduces him to someone very important. Sossy McWhiskers, a black and white cat in a top hat with a string of sausages for a tail.
It turns out, Alan is stuck in an hallucinatory limbo, conjured up by his subconscious on the cusp between life and death because, despite Alan having consciously made the choice to die, his subconscious - with all it's capacity for instincts and survival - rather disagrees with this choice. It seeks to remind Alan that his consciousness is merely a construct of his subconscious mind - and Alan wants to prove otherwise before allowing himself to die in peace. During the course of which Alan and Sossy travel through what could be described as unimaginable worlds, were they not residing solely within Alan's imagination. Travelling on his old battered couch that, Transformer-like, turns into a rather comfy spacecraft, and taking advantage of televisual wormholes - Alan and Sossy go on adventure that explores the very nature of existence, the self, perception, psychology and philosophy. Engaging with strange new worlds, seeing rat things with huge pairs of tits and all the while trying to rather insanely put meaning on it all.
A tale that weaves absurdity and humour into a more philosophical story (certainly than Easy as a Bee, See?), and one of self-discovery gone a little bit astray, Through the Cooking Gas is probably the most personal piece of prose I have ever written and yet at the same time one of the most outlandish. I hope to have it finished within a few months, and after that it shall take some editing and formatting to have it publishable. So expect it soon! :)
Easy as a Bee, See?
It really is that shamelessly punny.
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Easy as a Bee, See?
The funniest book you're not reading!
…Possibly because you're not reading a book at all, thus any would be funnier.
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Joe and Noah have shared with the site their perspective on being a part of the Christmas reenactment each year. It is this frame of reference which opens the following article as they stand at the Park on Christmas Day, ready to cross.
Here we stand. It is another Christmas and another crossing to reenact. We look around the room to see many faces of friends we have come to respect. With a nod or a wave of acknowledgment, the thought crosses our minds, what brings them here? Why do they think this is important enough to relinquish a cherished holiday with family? As we black re-enactors receive our boat assignments, we cannot help but notice how few we are. Around the site, the famous 1851 image by Emmanuel Leutze of Washington Crossing the Delaware is featured. But curiously enough it is not Washington who is at the center of our thoughtful stares. It is the man who is rowing in front of his knee. At a quick glance, the man seems to have a shadow across his face. But upon a closer inspection one realizes this is a black man. To us black re-enactors, this man has become a symbol of the contribution African-American people made to this country's freedom. Who is this man? Is he meant to represent an actual person who historically crossed with Washington? We do not know. No one really knows who crossed with Washington, but what we do know is, in depicting this event, Leutze felt it was important to have this African present.
In our modern times, unlike times past, the willingness of our culture to embrace the whole story of our country and all of its people has become more acceptable. This is why we blacks participate here today. We are here to remind every one of the courage of men such as Peter Salem, Salem Poor, and Prince Esterbrook. These were men who fought at the dawn of the rebellion, when our soldiers were called Minutemen and George Washington was yet to become Commander-in-Chief of the Continental forces.
During the war, one of Washington's highly regarded fighting units would be the Rhode Island Regiment. Although this regiment did not cross with Washington on December 25, 1776, they would fight in the 2nd Battle of Trenton. This regiment's history is unique in that Rhode Island did not have enough free black or white men to fulfill their Continental Army quota, so the state turned to their enslaved people and offered them freedom for their service. In the Battle of Yorktown this regiment would be crucial in the taking of a British fortification. These men attacked redoubt number 10 with bayonets. They took their objective in about ten minutes. This allowed General Washington to press the siege into the town itself.
But were there Africans here at The Crossing? Glover's Regiment of Marbleheaders, from Marblehead Massachusetts, was a unit that had a large percentage of blacks in its ranks. They aided Washington's army during the retreat from Brooklyn Heights, NY, when they ferried the Continental troops to safety before the Redcoats could close in for the kill. They served again when Washington needed them to take his army across the Delaware to attack the Hessians in Trenton. These men are only a few that served that day.
There were countless others. By the end of the war about ten percent of General Washington's army would be "people of color." (About three to five thousand people of color would fight for America.) This would be remarkable in two aspects. First, many enslaved blacks had little faith they would be given their freedom at the end of the war. After all, the only thing these substitute soldiers and runaway slaves had to trust in would be the word and good intentions of their master or of other whites. Secondly, General Washington made a proclamation at Cambridge in 1775, that neither free blacks nor slaves would be allowed to join the Continental Army, despite their early involvement in the war as Minutemen.
Beyond the military, Washington would have personal interaction with Africans on other levels. Washington was faithfully attended by his loyal enslaved personal servant, William Lee. Lee, some would argue, was more friend than servant and he attended the General through the entirety of the war. We will never know the affect Lee had in influencing Washington's attitude toward blacks. But knowing the personality of Washington, we can surmise that it was his inclination to surround himself with competent, steadfast people.
Washington's attitude toward blacks seemed to evolve throughout the war. By the end of Washington's life, after he had seen the courage, loyalty, and intellect of African-Americans who had served in the army and of those he had met in civilian life, his ideas regarding slavery seemed to change as is indicated in the liberation after his death of the people he had enslaved.
On the other side of the conflict, the British offered freedom to slaves who would fight for them from the beginning of the war. In hopes of securing personal freedom, many people of color, about seven to ten thousand, would fight for the British with whom victory seemed sure. After the war, many of these people were relocated to Canada, London and Freetown, Sierra Leone.
These are only a few of the many forgotten black patriots who helped all of us to know freedom. And it is for them, as well as the numerous races, cultures, and people who helped in the struggle that we are drawn here to honor them with heartfelt thanks. So here we stand. Ready to cross.


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Michelin, for instance, suggests rotating tires every 6,000 to 8,000 miles. I won't re-balance a tire unless I notice odd wear patterns or, as you mention, feel a vibration. An alignment check every 5,000 miles may be a good idea if you regularly drive rough, potholed roads, but I don't, so every 10,000 miles or so works for me.
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Youth Leader in Bangladesh Starts a Literacy Center in His Community
A.K. Manik is 21 years old and grew up in Raghobpur village in Mymensingh, Bangladesh with six brothers and two sisters. Manik first became involved with The Hunger Project (THP) in 2003 when he participated in a three-hour Youth Ending Hunger (YEH) workshop that he heard about through his high school.
He was inspired to take a four-day Youth Leadership Training, where he began to realize that he could make a difference in his society. Manik describes the impact the gender equality component of the training had on his attitude toward women: "In Bangladesh, we don't recognize the contribution of women to society, but we should. They work more than men, and they sacrifice themselves for us. Before, I didn't see women as equal, or realize how important it is to recognize their rights."
Manik formed a YEH unit in his village. He mobilized about 20 youth with skills he had gained in the leadership training. The process gave him confidence as he saw that he was able to motivate others. For young people in Bangladesh, libraries are few and far between, and almost non-existent in rural areas, so Manik's first initiative was to establish a library in his village. Manik and his team collected over 500 books from community elders and personal donations, rugs, a table and 12 chairs to furnish an abandoned room in a disused military shelter. Today, the library is actively used by community members, including students, who even make the journey from distant villages to use the library. Manik is immensely proud of this.
Manik's next step was to start a literacy movement in Raghobpur. He converted the library into a literacy center, where YEH volunteers took turns each day to teach basic literacy and numeracy to 25 participants over three-month periods. Upon completion of the course, previously illiterate villagers were able to write their name and address, read newspaper headlines and compose short letters.
Manik says there are now over 100 such literacy programs taking place in Raghobpur. The library also serves as a base for other YEH educational programs, such as an English Club, where students meet to practice their conversation skills. Manik also wants to build computer literacy: "We hope in time to get a computer so that our students have the chance to learn computer skills and connect with the world through the internet."
Manik says that the awareness-building activities he has led as a YEH activist have had a tremendous impact on his village. Manik and his YEH team have conducted campaigns against dowry and early marriage, environmental issues and nutrition. During a recent nutrition campaign, Manik gathered community members in a public forum to identify nutrient rich foods, and taught them how to get the most nutritional benefit from these foods, such as by leaving fruits and vegetables unpeeled.
On a deeply personal level, Manik feels he has changed through his involvement with YEH and THP. "I've built up confidence that I can develop my own community by contributing my own self. This makes me a visionary. It has totally changed me - vividly! I wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't joined THP." He points up to the sky, "I am up here. But if I hadn't joined THP, I would be down there," and points to the floor. "I have this feeling all the time: I will keep doing this work my whole life. And my future wife and child - they will do this work also!"
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