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It was the first studio album in the band's history not to feature a change of vocalist from the preceding album.
The album's first single "Feel Like I Do", was released as a free download on their official website, and the album was released on April 27, 2010.
On November 7, 2011, C.J. Pierce and Mike Luce announced a new project with former Nonpoint members Zach Broderick and Ken McMillan titled Voodoo Corps.
In November 2011, McCombs left the band to reunite with SOiL for touring and a new album.
The band, now once again without a singer, began writing new material for a fifth studio album while holding vocalist auditions.
In July 2012, Jasen Moreno, from The Suicide Hook, was announced to be the band's new vocalist.
On August 14, the 10th anniversary of Dave Williams' death, the band released a song in tribute of him, their first with Moreno titled "In Memory Of...".
Two further singles were released with Moreno, "Saturday Night" in November 2012, and "One Finger and a Fist" in December 2012
Resilience, 13th anniversary of Sinner and Hellelujah
The band released their fifth album, Resilience, on April 9, 2013.
On September 10, the band announced that they would celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of Sinner with a U.S. tour starting from October 22, in which they plan to dig deep into the songs from their debut album.
Drowning Pool released a reissue of their album "Sinner" called the "Unlucky 13th Anniversary Edition" in 2014.
The band signed to eOne Music in August 2015.
On October 13, it was announced the band's sixth album titled Hellelujah would be released January 22 via eOne Music with producer Jason Suecof.
The date was later postponed to February 5.
On November 19, the band released new single from their Hellelujah album called "By the Blood".
On May 17, 2016 the band announced that they would be taking part in the Make America Rock Again super tour on select dates throughout the summer and fall 2016.
The tour featured other artists who had success throughout the 2000s, including Trapt, Saliva, Saving Abel, Crazy Town, 12 Stones and Tantric, Fuel, Puddle Of Mudd and P.O.D..
Jasen Moreno - lead singer (2012-present)
C.J. Pierce - guitar player (1996-present)
Stevie Benton - bass guitar player (1996-present)
Mike Luce - drummer (1996-present)
Dave Williams: lead singer (1999−2002)
Jason Jones: lead singer (2003−2005)
Ryan McCombs: lead singer (2005-2011)
Sinner (2001)
Desensitized (2004)
Full Circle (2007)
Drowning Pool (2010)
Resilience (2013)
Manon is a French opera in five acts by Jules Massenet, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on March 19, 1884, libretto by Henri Meilhac et Philippe Gile, after the Abbé Antoine-François Prévost's L'histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut.
An immediate success, it has remained one of the most popular of French operas.
Manon - soprano
Chevalier des Grieux - tenor
Lescaut - baritone
Comte des Grieux - bass
Guillot de Morfontaine - tenor
Monsieur de Brétigny - baritone
The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, Vikings Books, 1989.
Desensitized is the second studio album by American alternative metal band Drowning Pool.
It was their first album after the death of vocalist Dave Williams as well as the first and only album to feature Jason 'Gong' Jones as vocalist.
The album debuted at #17 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Drowning Pool albums
Achillobator is a dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous period of what is now Mongolia.
It lived about 90 million years ago.
It was probably an active predator, hunting with the large sickle-shaped claw on the second toe of each foot.
It was a large dromaeosaurid: the first and only individual specimen found is estimated at being 5 meters (17 feet) long.
The name comes from Achilles, a famous ancient Greek warrior of the Trojan War.
It refers to the large Achilles tendon needed to use the sickle claw on the foot, which was the major weapon of dromaeosaurids.
The one species is named A. giganticus because it is much larger than other dromaeosaurids.
Full Circle is the third album from hard rock band Drowning Pool.
It is their first release with former Soil singer Ryan McCombs, who joined the band after the departure of Jason 'Gong' Jones in 2005.
It was released on August 7, 2007.
This album has more of a post-grunge sound compared to the last two releases by the band and is less heavy as well.
The first single off the album, "Soldiers," is dedicated to all the men and women of the United States Army.
Sinner is the first album by nu metal band Drowning Pool.
The album is the band's most popular, reaching platinum only six weeks after it came out.
This was thought to be because of the song "Bodies", often known as "Let The Bodies Hit The Floor", which remains the band's most well-known song.
This was the only album to have lead singer Dave Williams.
While touring in support of Sinner, he died on August 14, 2002 from heart failure.
The album debuted at #14 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Drowning Pool is the eponymous fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Drowning Pool.
It was released on April 27, 2010 and marks the band's first album not to feature a new singer, as Ryan McCombs remained with Drowning Pool from their 2007 release.
Turn So Cold is the single from the successful band Drowning Pool.
Gallagher was the former lead guitarist and main songwriter for the band Oasis.
He left the band in 2009 following an argument with his younger brother and Oasis' frontman Liam.
In 2011 he released his first solo album Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
The band's second album Chasing Yesterday was released 2 March 2015.
The future of the Earth will depend on many things, including increases in the brightness of the Sun, loss of heat energy from the Earth's core and change of the planet's orbit by the other things in the Solar System.
The Milankovitch theory says the planet will continue to go into glaciation cycles because of the planet's difference in orbit from a perfect circle, the axis of the planet tilting, and pushing of the Earth's orbit.
As part of the supercontinent cycle, plate tectonics may create a supercontinent within 250 million–350 million years.
Some time in the next 1.5 billion–4.5 billion years, the axis's tilt may begin to change into bad versions, with changes in the axis's tilt of up to 90°.
One billion to two billion years in the future, the increase in solar radiation caused by the helium build-up at the core of the Sun will result in the loss of the oceans and the cessation of continental drift.
Four billion years from now, the increase in the Earth's surface temperature will cause a bad greenhouse effect.
By that point, most if not all the life on the Earth will be gone.
The most likely fate of the planet is being destroyed by the Sun in about 7.5 billion years, after the star has entered the red giant phase and expanded to cross the planet's orbit.
Human influence
Humans now play a top role in the biosphere, with the large amount of people in many of Earth's ecosystems.
This has caused a widespread, ongoing extinction of other species known as the Holocene extinction.
The Holocene extinction event is the result of habitat destruction, the large distribution of invasive species, hunting and climate change.
Solar evolution
The energy generation of the Sun is based upon changing of hydrogen into helium.
This occurs in the core region of the star.
When the Sun first became a main sequence star, it radiated only 70% of the current luminosity.
The luminosity has increased in a nearly linear fashion to the present, increasing by 1% every 110 million years.
In three billion years the Sun is expected to be 33% more luminous.
The hydrogen fuel at the core will finally be limited in 4.8 billion years, when the Sun will be 67% more luminous than at present.
Thereafter the Sun will continue to burn hydrogen in a shell surrounding its core, until the increase in luminosity reaches 121% of the present value.
This marks the end of the Sun's main sequence lifetime, and thereafter it will be into a red giant.
Planetary habitability
Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth
Stability of the Solar System
The American Library Association (ALA) is an organization which does not receive money.
It helps libraries and library education all over the world.
It is the oldest and largest library association in the world.
It has more than 62,000 members.
Justin Winsor, Charles Ammi Cutter, Samuel Swett Green, James L. Whitney, Melvil Dewey, Fred B. Perkins and Thomas W. Bicknell began the organization in 1876.
It began in Philadelphia, but its head office is in Chicago now.
Anybody can join, but most of its members are librarians.
Most members live and work in the United States.
Members from other countries make up about 3.5% of the members.
ALA Freedom to Read Statement
ALA Intellectual Freedom Q&A
ALA's "Resolution on the USA Patriot (sic) Act and Related Measures that Infringe on the Rights of Library Users"
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. (born November 15, 1988 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer better known by his stage name, B.o.
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The Pontiac Firebird was a car built by the Pontiac division of General Motors from 1967 to 2002 and they made four generations of it.
The Firebird was succeeded by the Pontiac GTO.
Pontiac Firebird heritage at Pontiac.com
Craig Alexander Newmark (born December 6, 1952 in Morristown, New Jersey) is the founder of Craigslist.
He currently lives in Cole Valley.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang in Europe) is a video game based on the animated television series of the same name for Game Boy Advance, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Wii, and Xbox.
The Avatar: The Last Airbender video game allows the player to control one of four characters - Aang, Katara, Haru, or Sokka - in a single-player adventure.
Each character uses his or her own fighting style.
He or she can get new special powers through experience from defeating enemies.
Many different items can help the player during battle (armor, chi, enchanted accessories, and healing potions).
Aang, a 12-year-old boy, is the main hero of the story.
He is the present Avatar (the spirit of the planet as a human).
As the Avatar, Aang must master all four elements to bring peace to the world and stop the war, which started 100 years ago.
Katara, Sokka and Haru helped him to do it.
Many characters from the show appear on this game such as Prince Zuko.
However, Zuko had a small part in the game, only appearing in cutscenes.
King Bumi also appears in the fourth level.
While training in the North Pole, Aang and Katara hear reports of a waterbender, Hiryu, going missing, which they investigate.
They arrive at the Water Tribe as a Fire Nation ship attacks, led by Prince Zuko.
They are able to fend off the attackers, but Katara is captured during the battle.
Aang and Sokka follow the ship, but are slowed by a Firebending machine.
They follow the ship to an Earth Kingdom port and they free Katara, who informs them of another prisoner named Lian the Maker, who is being forced to make machines for the Fire Nation.
When they arrive at Lian’s cell, they find it empty, except for a map to an Earth Kingdom village.
They find the village under attack by machines.
After fending off the machines, picking up Haru and being informed that one of his earthbending friends Yuan was kidnapped, they travel to the library of Omashu for clues to where the machines might originate from.
The information from the library leads them to an uncharted island.
On the island, they find Lian, making more machines.
She fears that Aang will not be able to master all four elements before Sozin’s comet arrives.
Aang refused her help, seeing as how the machines were disrupting villages.
Lian then voiced her contempt for him as she sends a machine to fight them to flee to the Air temple, attempting to destroy the Avatar statues.
They stop Lian, but Katara, Sokka, and Haru are captured by another machine.
Aang pursues Lian and the machine to a fortress.
After Aang rescues his friends, they find Zuko, also captured by a machine.
Upon rescuing him, Zuko attacks the group, but he is knocked over.
After that, Aang enter the Avatar State and killed Lian.
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Wii Resource Centre: Wii: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Dromornis is a genus of fossil flightless birds.
It lived in Australia from the late Miocene to the early Pliocene.
This means early humans never met this animal.
Dromornis had a huge beak and jaw capable of great force.
It did not have the typical beak and claws of a carnivore, and its life style is not certain.
Though they looked like giant emus, the Dromornis are more closely related to geese.
Dromornis stirtoni was three metres (10 feet) tall and weighed up to half a ton (500 kilos).
It inhabited subtropical open woodland in Australia during the late Miocene.
It may have been partly carnivorous.
It was heavier than the  Moa and taller than Aepyornis.
D. stirtoni had a long neck and stub-like wings, so it was flightless.
Its legs were powerful, but it was not a fast runner.
The bird's beak was large and immensely powerful, leading early researchers to believe that it was used to shear through tough plant stalks.
However, others have argued that the size of the beak suggests that the bird was a carnivore.
There were forests and a permanent water supply where the Dromornis birds lived, although the climate was unpredictable.
Dromornis are part of a family of giant birds called Dromornithidae that lived from 15 million years ago until less than 30,000 years ago.
Australasia had started to separate from other continents as Gondwana started to break up in the Mesozoic era.
Australia's last connection with Antarctica broke about 40 million years ago.
Since then the animals of Australasia (Australia and New Guinea) evolved slowly in almost complete isolation from the animals of other continents, except for the occasional immigrant species from Asia.
Helen Beatrix Potter (July 28, 1866 – December 22, 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, mycologist and conservationist.
She was perhaps most historically famous and also perhaps best notable for having written up and also having published several classic children's storybooks with which are all about and mostly based loosely on the narrative tales of amongst several of her classic and most beloved animal characters such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Potter was born on July 28, 1866 and was then raised and eventually grew up in Kensington, London during the early childhood stages of her life.
She was somehow and pretty well-off and her whole family was also quite rich and even became extremely wealthy overnight at the next and in between the period of time from directly onwards and just shortly at right after when her father Rupert William Potter, who had also great multi-artistic talents and was also an adept amateur photographer, had wisely invested a large part of their family income and hard-earned savings in the stock exchange market during the early 1890's.
She was also surrounded as well as highly taught and intellectually educated by many governesses while throughout and during her growing teenage and adolescent years.
Although, she did not have as many friends at while all throughout and at during in her entire lifetime period and longtime writing career, but she did rather was surrounded by the beautiful mother nature and on while on the contrary on the other hand, she otherwise had many loving pets, including Benjamin and Peter, 2 favorite pet rabbits, the latter of which would be her basis for her very first and most beloved storybook character.
She had also spent most of her happy holidays in Scotland and the Lake District.
There, she eventually began to learn to love nature, plants and animals, by which she had also carefully sketched, artistically illustrated and creatively painted and also thus on became interested at painting and favorably loved to paint pictures of them.
By around the time when she was around at the age of 30 and from there onwards, Potter had then on written up and also then officially published her first original and classic children's storybook entitled The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
It was very widely popular and had universal appeal to people of all ages, especially to amongst all young children.
She also at one point on in the time of her life became romantically engaged to her then-publisher Norman Warne.
Both of her parents unfortunately disapproved of this and thus so became very angry with her as they disputed over the love affair and thereby tumultuosly separated with her because of this as they really did not want her to marry someone who was socially lower than her.
However, Warne had unexpectedly died just before he and Potter could even officially marry each other.
Eventually, both of Potter's parents had then forgiven her and eventually reconciled with her.
Potter then went and moved on with her life and also began on with prominently writing up and even creatively illustrating multiple classic children's storybooks along with many illustrative background designs and distinctive character sketches within the pages of her storybooks at over full-time.
Fortunately, she did not have to depend on her parents anymore for any help and much support and did not even need to ask her parents for any more money because she already had enough self-earned money of her own from out of writing and publishing a lot of her prominent children's storybooks.
In time, she then bought out Hill Top Farm and even purchased some more huge tracks of land.
While then on at throughout and during much later in her 40's, she then married William Heelis, a local solicitor.
She also began raising sheep and thus became a farmer, though she still continued on with writing her storybooks based on the epic tales of her several classic beloved animal characters.
She has perhaps written and published over 23 classic children's storybooks to date during most of all the time of her life.
Potter eventually married William Heelis in 1913 and their marriage had lasted for about 30 years on until the time of her death in 1943.
Although, the couple never had any children while living together on since during the years of their marriage.
She had then on since suffered from a congenital heart problem and had died of a cardiovascular heart disease and pneumonia in Near Sawrey, Lancashire at the age of 77 on December 22, 1943.
Almost all of her whole life-savings from within and out of her self-earned money from writing up her stories and publishing her books and all of the money by which she had also thus inherited on from the time of the death of her immediate family members including both of her parents and as well as her younger brother Walter Bertham Potter was entirely left behind with to the National Trust.
Her popular classic children's storybooks continued to sell out well around the world, in many different languages.
Her then-widower, Heelis had also eventually died just nearly between 1-2 years later in sometime on and around August 1945.
Immersive Books Beatrix Potter
Phillip Paul Lloyd (born March 3, 1981) is a South African professional wrestler.
He is best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) where he wrestled under the ring name Justin Gabriel.
He is currently wrestling for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Global Force Wrestling (GFW) under the ring name PJ Black.
Lloyd was the first South African wrestler to compete in the WWE.
While performing in Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), he was a one-time FCW Florida Heavyweight Champion and a one-time FCW Florida Tag Team Champion with Kris Logan.
He is a former member of The Nexus and The Corre.
His finishing move is the 450° splash.
Gabriel had his last televised WWE match on the January 14, 2015 episode of Main Event in a loss to Rusev.
On January 24, 2015, it was reported by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Gabriel had quit WWE, which was a day before the 2015 Royal Rumble which he was scheduled to appear in before he was replaced in the match.
The next day, WWE confirmed his release.
On August 12, Black was a part of an angle, where GFW invaded Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
He would go on to defeat Lashley, Chris Mordetzky, Eric Young and Robbie E in a King of the Mountain match and win the vacant TNA King of the Mountain Championship.
On August 19, Black faced off against EC3 for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
GFW profile
Gastornis, formerly known as Diatryma, is an extinct genus of large flightless birds.
They lived in the late Paleocene and early Eocene epochs of the Cainozoic.
The first remains were discovered in the mid-19th century.
In the 1870s, the famous American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope discovered another, more complete set of fossils in North America, and named them Diatryma.
The fossil remains of these birds have been found in western-central Europe (England, Belgium, France and Germany) as well as North America.
Their life style is in dispute.
Gastornis parisiensis measured on average 1.75 metres (5.7 ft) tall, but large individuals grew up to 2 metres (6.6 ft) tall.
Gastornis had a huge beak with a slightly hooked top, which possibly suggests that it was carnivorous.
Gastornis had large powerful legs.
It had large feet with small talons.
Fossil footprints suggest it was a herbivore.
Although North American and Europe were separated by the end of the Cretaceous, there must have been a landbrige still in place somewhere.
This is because the European and North American Diatrymas were so similar.
Other bird and mammal genera also occur on both sides of the (present-day) North Atlantic in the Palaeocene and Eocene.
This is evidence that Europe and North America were once connected by dry land in part of the early Cainozoic.
At its time, the environment where Gastornis lived had dense forest and a moist to dry subtropical or even tropical climate.
North America and Europe were still rather close, and Greenland probably was covered with lush woodland and grassland.
Only narrow straits of a few 100 km at most would have blocked landbound dispersal of the Gastornis ancestors.
Land in North American was connected.
Their European range was an archipelago, with the Alpsbuilding up, and high sea levels in the Paleocene and Eocene.
Geographically, it was roughly similar to today's Indonesia.
Gastornis has been depicted as predatory.
However, some doubt the bird was agile enough to catch fast-moving prey, and have doubts about the beak being right for carnivory.
It may be that Gastornis was an ambush hunter, or used pack hunting techniques to pursue or ambush prey.
If Gastornis was a predator, it would have needed some means of hunting prey through the dense forest.
Alternatively, they may have been mainly scavengers, omnivores or even herbivores.
The large beak of Gastornis would have been suited for crushing seeds and tearing off vegetation.
But it seems too strong for a purely vegetarian diet.
Regardless of what these birds ate, the beak may have been used also for social display – its presence in all known fossils argues against a sexual display role.
These contradicting hypotheses, which can't be separated by the evidence, make the paleobiology of Gastornis unclear.
Similar gigantic birds of the Cenozoic were the South American terror birds (phorusrhacids) and the Australian mihirungs (Dromornis).
The former were certainly carnivorous, and the latter are suspected of being predators, too.
On the other hand, ratites, the flightless giant birds of our time, feed on plants, small vertebrates, and invertebrates.
Gastornis were among the largest, if not the largest birds alive during the Paleogene.
They had few natural enemies and serious competitors.
If these huge birds were active hunters, they must have been important apex predators which dominated the forest ecosystems of North America and Europe until the middle Eocene.
The mid-Eocene saw the rise of large creodont and mesonychid predators in Eurasia and North America.
The appearance of these new predators coincides with the decline of Gastornis and its relatives.
This was possibly due to an increased tendency of mammalian predators to hunt together in packs (especially in the hyaena-like creodonts).
We know of no bird which weighed more than half a metric ton.
Perhaps they could not evolve to larger sizes.
If so, they could not compete by sheer bulk as mammals are often able to do.
Trace fossils
In late Paleocene deposits of Spain and early Eocene deposits of France, shell fragments of huge eggs have turned up in Provence.
These are presumably from Gastornis.
Some of these fragments were complete enough to reconstruct a size of 24 by 10 cm (about 9.5 by 4 inches) with shells 2.3–2.5 mm (0.09–0.1 in) thick.
This is roughly half again as large as an ostrich egg, and very different in shape from the more rounded ratite eggs.
Lead(II) oxide, also known as plumbous oxide and litharge, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is PbO. It has lead in the +2 oxidation state.
It also contains oxide ions.
It is a yellow or red solid.
When it is heated with charcoal it makes liquid lead metal.
It is a crystalline solid.
It is highly toxic since it has lead in it.
It reacts with acids to make other lead(II) salts and bases to make plumbites.
It can be made by heating lead strongly in air.
It can be also made by heating lead carbonate or lead nitrate.
It is made when lead is taken from its ores.
The lead sulfide in galena is changed to lead(II) oxide, which is heated with charcoal to make liquid lead.
It is used to make lead glass.
It used to be used in lead paint.
Yoshihiro Tajiri (born September 29, 1970 in Tamana, Kumamoto, Japan) is a Japanese professional wrestler who is best known for wrestling with WWF/E and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW).
Tajiri is currently wrestling on the independent circuit under SMASH.
Big Japan Pro Wrestling
BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship - (one time)
BJW Tag Team Championship - (two times) with Ryuji Yamakaw
CZW World Heavyweight Championship (one time)
CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship (one time)
ECW World Tag Team Championship (one time) with Mikey Whipwreck
Fight Club Finland
FCF Finnish Heavyweight Championship (one time)
IWA Hardcore Championship (one time)
PWI ranked him #23 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 2002
Tokyo Sports Grand Prix
Special Award (2001)
World Tag Team Championship (one time) with William Regal
WCW Cruiserweight Championship (one time)
WCW United States Championship (one time)
WWE Tag Team Championship (one time) with Eddie Guerrero
WWF/E Cruiserweight Championship (one time)
Tajiri's Official website
Tajiri's alumni profile at WWE.com
Lead(II,IV) oxide, also known as lead tetroxide, minium, red lead, or triplumbic tetroxide, is a chemical compound.
It contains some lead atoms in the +2 oxidation state and some in the +4 oxidation state.
It is used in batteries, paints, and glass.
It is made by heating lead(II) oxide in air.
It is toxic because it contains lead.
Its formula is Pb3O4.
It is commonly said "Sandur".
Flightless birds are birds which cannot fly.
They rely on their ability to run or swim, and have evolved from their flying ancestors.
There are about 60 species living today, the best known being the ostrich, emu, cassowary, rhea, kiwi, and penguin.
Floghtless birds have smaller wing bones and a greatly reduced or absent keel on their breastbone.
The keel anchors muscles needed for wing movement.
Flightless birds also have more feathers than flying birds.
New Zealand has more species of flightless birds (such as the kiwis, several species of penguins, and the takahe) than any other country.
One reason is that until the arrival of humans a thousand years ago, there were no large land predators in New Zealand.
The main predators of flightless birds were large eagles.
Some flightless varieties of island birds are closely related to flying varieties.
This suggests that the apparatus of flight has a significant biological cost.
As soon as birds do not need to fly, there is selection against flight.
The smallest flightless bird is the Inaccessible Island Rail (length 12.5 cm, weight 34.7 g).
The largest (both heaviest and tallest) living flightless bird, is the Ostrich (2.7 m, 156 kg), although some extinct birds grew to larger sizes.
Flightless birds are easy to take care of in captivity because they do not have to be caged.
Ostriches were once farmed for their decorative feathers.
Today they are raised for meat and for their skins, which are used to make leather.
Advantages and disadvantages of flight
A flightless bird is one which has descended from ancestors which had the power of flight.
It may seem strange that one of the commonest adaptations in birds is the loss of flight!
To understand it one has to understand what the main benefits of flight are to animals which once had been confined to land.
The benefits of flight are all about being able to live on a much wider geographical scale than land-based animals.
This is seen to its best with migrating birds, who live their lives in two different latitudes, and get the best from each.
The usual system is to lay their eggs and raise their young in one place, and do most of their growth in another place.
Even birds which do not migrate do benefit from flying to find nest sites and get their food.
Apart from foraging for food, the main benefit of flight is to avoid many of the predators which eat land-based animals.
Understandably, flightless birds are in a minority: of about 10,000 living bird species, only about 60 are flightless.
Before human beings arrived on islands, there were many more species of flightless birds.
Since the fossil record is never complete, it is not possible to give a count of the number of flightless bird species who were living before mankind left Africa.
Despite this general picture, there have been birds who lost the power of flight soon after flight evolved.
The first fossil flightless birds occurred in the Cretaceous period.
It has long been recognised that there are circumstances where it is definitely not a good thing to have wings.
The connection between oceanic islands and flightlessness was known to Darwin.
The explanation is that, first, oceanic islands have few predators.
Second, that storms occur which may blow winged birds right off the island so far that they cannot find they way back.
Once they lose flight, the land birds can evolve to be larger and heavier, and many do so.
Phorusrhacos became a dominant land carnivore.
Examples of flightless birds
Cassowaries
Moa (extinct)
Elephant birds (extinct)
Rheas
Anseriformes (Waterfowl)
Dromornis (extinct)
Sphenisciformes (Penguins)
Charadriiformes (Gulls, Terns, Auks)
Great Auk (extinct)
Psittaciformes (Parrots)
Columbiformes (Pigeons, Doves)
Dodo (extinct)
Rodrigues Solitaire (extinct)
Phorusrhacidae
TerraNature on New Zealand flightless birds
Kiwi  in Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Monster Energy has sponsored many sporting events like the X Games and pays many sportpeople to wear their logo by And1.
Monster Energy's official website
Monster Energy's official Canadian website
Peter Rabbit is a fictional animal character in many children's stories by Beatrix Potter.
Peter was different from the traditional hero of that time.
He is small, emotional, easily scared, and a not very wise animal.
He first came out in The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902.
After that, he came out in five more books between 1904 and 1912.
Potter made a soft doll shaped like Peter Rabbit, and soon dishes and wallpaper showed pictures of him.
He appears as a character in the 1971 ballet movie, The Tales of Beatrix Potter and in the BBC series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends.
He was inspired by Potter's pet rabbit, Peter Piper.
In stories, he wears human clothes and walks standing up.
His mother is Mrs. Josephine Rabbit, and he has three sisters, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail.
His popularity made Potter say in 1917, "All rabbits are called Peter now" – but she added "either Peter or Brer Rabbit."
Mackey, Margaret (2002), Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit: A Children's Classic at 100, Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., ISBN  0810-84197-5
Bouldering is a type of rock climbing.
It is climbing without rope and harness.
It is climbing heights at which the climber does not usually suffer serious injuries in case of a drop.
To protect from injuries there are usually special bouldering mats underneath the climber.
It is usually practiced on large natural boulders and in climbing gyms.
Bouldering basics
Boulder routes are called "problems", because this style is like solving climbing-problems.
The height of boulder problems is rarely higher than 3-5 meters.
Otherwise the risk of injuries is too high.
Often other climbers, who stand on the ground, spot the climbers to protect them from hitting the ground with the head or the spine.
The equipment used by boulderers is not much.
They use special climbing shoes, a bouldering mat, some brushes to clean the grips and sports tape.
Bouldering was invented in the late 19th century.
It has been first documented in France, England and Switzerland.
It has been practiced for a long time but in the 1930s and 1940s it was practiced for its own sake in Fontainebleau in France.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
It is about the adventures of disobedient, playful young Peter Rabbit as he is chased around the garden of Mr. McGregor.
He escapes and goes back home to his mother.
The story was written for five-year-old Noel Moore.
He was the son of Annie Moore, who had been Potter's governess in 1893.
It was corrected and privately printed by Potter in 1901 after several publishers refused to print the book.
It was printed by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902.
It was printed again many times.
It has been translated into 36 languages.
It sold 45 million copies, and became one of the most popular books of all time.
After it was printed, much merchandise for both children and adults with Peter Rabbit was produced.
Toys, dishes, food, clothing, videos and other products showed pictures of Peter Rabbit.
Potter was one of the first to begin such merchandise when she made a Peter Rabbit doll in 1903.
After that, a Peter Rabbit board game was produced.
At that time, the traditional literary hero was usually a brave, clever, young white male.
Yet Peter Rabbit, the hero of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was a disobedient little rabbit.
Through him, Potter greatly changed the traditional "good child" of that time.
Peter Rabbit came out as a character in a 1971 ballet movie, and the tale has been used for a television series.
Peter Rabbit, his sisters Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and his mother are rabbits.
They dress in human clothing and walk standing up.
However, like real rabbits, they live in a rabbit-hole under a fir-tree.
Mother Rabbit told her children not to go into the garden of Mr. McGregor when she went to the market.
This is because their father was made into a pie there.
However, while Mrs. Rabbit is at the market and the girls are picking blackberries, Peter enters the garden.
There, he eats so many vegetables he becomes sick.
After that, Mr. McGregor tries to catch Peter.
When Peter loses his jacket and his shoes, Mr. McGregor uses them to dress a scarecrow.
Peter is almost caught by Mr. McGregor many times.
When he finally escapes from Mr. McGregor, Peter goes back home with no shoes, no jacket, and no dinner.
His mother puts him to bed and makes him drink chamomile tea because he is so tired and sick.
However, his sisters who have been good little rabbits enjoy a special dinner of bread, milk, and blackberries.
In a 1904 sequel, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, Peter goes back to McGregor's garden to find his lost clothes.
Writing The Tale of Peter Rabbit
In the 1890s, Potter sent illustrated story letters to the children of Annie Moore, who had used to be her governess.
In 1900, Moore, who realized how popular Potter's stories could become, suggested they be made into books.
Potter agreed.
She took her letters (which had been carefully saved by the Moore children) and chose a letter written on 4 September 1893 to five-year-old Noel about a rabbit named Peter.
Potter had owned a pet rabbit called Peter Piper.
The letter was too short to be a proper book, so Potter made the story longer and added pictures in black and white.
She copied the work into a hardcover book with a frontispiece picture of Mrs. Rabbit giving Peter camomile tea at the end of the book.
Private publication
Potter's manuscript book had the title of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor's Garden.
The manuscript was refused by six publishers.
Even Frederick Warne & Co. refused to print it, even though it had shown interest in her artwork several years ago.
Some publishers wanted a shorter story.
Others wanted a longer one.
Almost all the publishers wanted the pictures to be colored.
Potter grew frustrated because her book continued to be refused.
She had already planned what her book should look like.
She wanted her book's style and size to be like Little Black Sambo.
She had also already thought of how much it should cost.
At last, she decided to publish the book herself.
On 16 December 1901, the first 460 copies of her privately printed The Tale of Peter Rabbit were given out to her family and friends.
First commercial edition
In 1901, a friend of Potter's family, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, changed Potter's story into a poem and tried giving his version, together with her illustrations and some of her corrected writing, to Frederick Warne & Co. The company refused Rawnsley's version, but they wanted to see Potter's complete manuscript.
They hoped that The Tale of Peter Rabbit would be as successful as Helen Bannerman's greatly popular Little Black Sambo and other children's books that were being sold at that time.
When Warne asked why there were not any colours in the illustrations, though, Potter replied that rabbit-brown and green colors were not interesting.
Warne said he would not publish the book, but he said he might publish other books she wrote later.
Warne wanted color illustrations in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which he called the 'bunny book'.
He also suggested that they only use 32 illustrations instead of the first 42 illustrations.
At first, Potter did not want to color her illustrations, but she came to realize that not coloring her illustrations would be a bad idea.
She sent Warne some new color illustrations with a copy of her privately printed edition.
Warne then gave these two the famous picture book artist, L. Leslie Brooke, to see what he thought about the pictures.
Brooke was delighted with Potter's work.
At the same time, small picture books became very popular.
Potter continued showing privately printed copies to her family and friends.
Soon the first private printing of 250 copies was sold out, and another 200 had to be prepared.
She noted in one copy that her pet rabbit Peter had died on 26 January 1901.
He had been nine years old.
Potter and Warne agreed to publish cheap 5,000 copies.
The next year, an official contract was signed in June 1902.
Potter worked hard in the process of publishing the story—she drew her pictures again when she needed to, made small changes to the writing, and corrected the punctuation.
Even before it was published in early October 1902, the first 8,000 copies were sold.
By the end of the year there were 28,000 copies in print.
By the middle of 1903 there was a fifth printing, and in the same month, there was a sixth printing.
A year after the first commercial publication there were 56,470 copies printed.
American copyright
Warne's New York office did not register the copyright for The Tale of Peter Rabbit in the United States.
Because of this, unlicensed copies of the book began to appear in the spring of 1903.
Nothing could stop the printing of unlicensed copies.
This made Potter lose a great deal of money.
She began to fully realize the need to license her books properly when, after she had successfully published The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, her father found a toy squirrel called Nutkin at the Burlington Arcade in Christmas 1903.
After The Tale of Peter Rabbit began to be sold, a great amount of merchandise copied its design and idea.
Potter registered the patent for a Peter Rabbit doll on 28 December 1903.
The next year, she designed a Peter Rabbit game.
She made firm rules about making licensed merchandise such as dolls, books, tea sets, wallpapers, pencils and pens, cards, and other merchandise.
Because the Peter Rabbit merchandise was so popular, Potter later said in 1917, "All rabbits are called Peter now".
She did add for her American readers, though, "Peter or Brer Rabbit."
Many different versions of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and merchandise about it have been produced until now.
There are now pop-up books, toy theaters, and lift-the-flap books.
By 1988, there were even video versions of the story, computer programs, and Internet websites.
Puppets, dolls, games, dishes, clocks and music boxes, baby and children's clothing, tea, jam, toothbrushes and soap, stickers, and even a cake about Peter Rabbit was sold in British supermarkets.
Large toy shops in the United States and Britain have parts of the store where they only sell Potter-related toys and merchandise.
Some shops only sell entirely Potter-related merchandise.
Other merchandise about Peter Rabbit is quite different from the first Peter Rabbit.
In 1916, Louise A. Field became rich by writing books such as 'Peter Rabbit Goes to School or Peter Rabbit and His Ma.
A movie by Golden Films, The New Adventures of Peter Rabbit, gave Peter longer teeth and a fourth sister named Hopsy.
This story had him and his city cousin Benny (probably Benjamin Bunny) following a box with his sisters inside it.
Another video about the story showed Peter as a Christian preacher singing songs about God and Jesus with children and vegetables.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit is often praised because of its simple, rhythmic words.
Linda Lear noted that Potter began a new kind of animal fable in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
She had made one in which anthropomorphic animals look and act like real animals, with pictures that were drawn by a scientifically minded artist.
She added that Peter Rabbit's personality has a lot of real "rabbity behaviour" inside it.
She said that the tale was a "perfect marriage of word and image" and "a triumph of fantasy and fact".
Carole Scott, a literary scholar and critic, wrote in her essay “An Unusual Hero: Perspective and Point of View in The Tale of Peter Rabbit” (2002) that she thought Potter's story was about a naughty hero with a proper moral at the end.
However, she remarked that Potter used many different ways to make the reader feel sympathetic for Peter.
Though he made his mother unhappy by disobeying her, stole, escaped from authority (Mr. McGregor), and did not get any punishment except a stomach-ache, Potter makes us feel sorry for him.
She thought the greatest conflict in the tale was between the order of society and the forces that tried to go against it—between those who have things and those who want things, and between humans and animal nature.
She felt that Peter was a symbol of “rebellion”.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Audio Book at Project Gutenberg
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Digital Book  at The University of Iowa Libraries (Flash)
World of Peter Rabbit : A website maintained by Potter's first publisher Frederick Warne & Co.
1902 works
"1979" is a song by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins.
It was released as the second single from their third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
"1979" was written by frontman Billy Corgan, and features loops and samples that were not like previous Smashing Pumpkins songs.
The song was popular with critics and fans; Allmusic's Amy Hanson called it a "somewhat surprising hit".
The song was nominated for the Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the Grammy Awards.
They won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video.
The Peugeot 407 was a car produced by Peugeot.
It succeeded the 406 in 2004, facelifted in 2008 and it was succeeded by the 508 in 2011.
1.8 16V 85 kW (115 hp) and 92 kW (125 hp)
2.2 16V 116 kW (158 hp) and 120 kW (163 hp)
3.0 V6 155 kW (211 hp)
2.0 HDi 100 kW (136 hp), 103 kW (140 hp) and 120 kW (163 hp)
2.2 HDi 125 kW (170 hp)
2.7 HDi 150 kW (204 hp)
3.0 HDi 177 kW (241 hp)
The first generation Caddy were produced from 1979 until 1996.
It was based on the Volkswagen Golf Mk1.
1.5 51 kW
1.6 55 kW
1.8 70 kW
1.6 Diesel 40 kW
The second generation was produced from 1995 until 2004.
Two versions were available: a van based on the Volkswagen Polo Mk3, and a pickup truck based on the Škoda Felicia.
1.4 44 kW
1.4 16V 55 kW
1.7 SDI 42 kW
1.9 Diesel 47 kW
1.9 SDI 47 kW
1.9 TDI 66 kW
The third generation was produced from 2003 to 2020.
It is based on the Volkswagen Golf Mk5.
1.4 16V 55 kW and 59 kW
1.6 75 kW
2.0 EcoFuel 80 kW
1.9 TDI 55 kW and 77 kW
2.0 SDI 51 kW
2.0 TDI 103 kW
Fourth generation
The fourth generation was launched in 2020.
It is based on the Volkswagen Golf Mk8.
1.6 TDI 55 kW and 75 kW
2.0 TDI 81 kW and 103 kW
SummerSlam (2010) is a professional wrestling pay-per-view made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), that took place on August 15, 2010 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
It was the 23rd yearly SummerSlam event.
There were 6 matches on the card.
7-on-7 Elimination Tag Team Match
2010s in Los Angeles, California
TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2009) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), that took place on December 13, 2009 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.
It was the first TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs event held by the WWE and was created to replace the Armageddon in the December slot of WWE's pay-per-view calendar.
WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs
"Two of Us" is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, although it is credited to Lennon/McCartney.
Lennon and McCartney sang the song as a duet.
It was written for Linda Eastman, McCartney's soon to be wife, though it sounds at times as if it is addressing Lennon, whose relationship with McCartney was tense at that time.
"Two of Us" was originally a hard rock song.
In the Let It Be film, McCartney and Lennon sing the song "rocker" style into the same microphone.
McCartney had never been satisfied with this style, which he said was "chunky."
And so on 24 January, he and the band reworked it.
Lennon had ideas about how the song might sound if Stevie Wonder performed it, and just before revisiting the song, the band had run through the Everly Brothers hit "Cathy's Clown".
With these influences and a move from electric guitar to acoustic, the song transformed into the gentler, stripped-down version that fans know today.
The Beatles performed a finished version of the song live at Apple Studios on 31 January 1969; this performance was included in both the Let it Be film and album.
In May 1969, McCartney produced a recording of the song using this title by the group Mortimer, a New York City trio that briefly recorded for Apple, but this recording was never released.
At the beginning of the recording Lennon says, "'I Dig a Pygmy', by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids... Phase One, in which Doris gets her oats!"
The joke was mixed in by Phil Spector for the Let It Be album and also appeared in the Let It Be film, both released in 1970. "
The deaf aids" – a British term for hearing aids at the time – was also the nickname given to the Beatles' Vox amplifiers.
Writing credit
In his 1980 interview with Playboy, Lennon claimed he wrote the song, but he may have been distracted at the time by a previous question about "Don't Let Me Down."
Playboy: "Don't Let Me Down"?
Lennon: That's me, singing about Yoko.
Playboy: "Two of Us"?
Lennon: Mine.
By the way, Rod Stewart turned "Don't Let Me Down" into [sings] 'Maggie don't go-o-o.' That's one the publishers never noticed...
John Lennon – harmony vocal, acoustic guitar, and whistling.
Paul McCartney – lead vocal, acoustic guitar and whistling.
George Harrison – bass-line (played on electric guitar).
John Lennon was the song's composer and singer but the song was credited to Lennon/McCartney.