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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (short form: Call of Duty: MW3) is a first-person shooter video game. It is the eighth game in the Call of Duty series and the third game in the Modern Warfare series. The game was made by Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software. The game was released on November 8, 2011.
Gameplay
The game is a first-person shooter, like the other Call of Duty games. There are three main sections to the gameplay: campaign, special ops (the cooperative mode) and multiplayer.
Campaign
The campaign follows the events of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Russia continues its invasion of the United States of America and expands its attack to Europe, including the countries England, France and Germany. The characters include people from previous games in the Modern Warfare series such as: John "Soap" Mactavish, Captain Price, Makarov and Macmillan.
Cathy Ubels-Veen
Catharina "Cathy" Ubels-Veen (28 October 1928 – 17 February 2015) was a Dutch politician. She was a member of the Second Chamber of the Netherlands for the Evangelical People's Party between 1982 and 1986.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Special ops
There are three parts to the special ops mode: the Mission, Survival and Chaos modes. The Mission mode is a game mode that comes back from the special ops mode of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. In the Mission mode, players do lots of different missions and get stars for their work. The Survival mode is a new game mode. In the Survival mode, waves after waves of enemies attack the player/s. There is no way to complete Survival mode because the waves keep coming. There are thirty seconds between each wave of enemies. This is so the player has time to buy weapons, explosives and Pointstreaks. The Chaos mode is another new mode. Players must earn the most money they can, which is done by keeping the multiplier going and killing as many enemies as possible as quickly as possible. Weapons are scattered around the map, and perks and care packages assist the players.
Cathy Ubels-Veen
Ubels-Veen died in Amsterdam, aged 86.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Special ops
One or two players can do Survival, Chaos and most Missions. Some Missions need two players.
Multiplayer
The multiplayer is similar to that of Modern Warfare 2. Players can do the multiplayer mode online or locally.
Players can play different game modes in a variety of maps. As the player does more, they unlock new weapons, attachments and perks. They also unlock new titles and emblems, and they increase their multiplayer rank until the limit of 80. Players can enter Prestige mode once they complete level 80. This resets all the player's weapons, perks and pointstreaks. The first time it is done, the player will be on Prestige 1, and so on. This can be done 20 times. If a player has reached Prestige 20, they can spend a Prestige Token to reset all statistics to level 0, Prestige 0.
The Killstreak system is now called the Pointstreak system and it has changed very much. There are now three Pointstreak packages. A player picks one package and selects three rewards from it. In previous games, Killstreaks could only be earned by killing other players. Poinstreaks can now be earned for completing objectives in any objective mode, or by shooting down enemy air support. Pointstreak rewards are organized into three different Strike Packages called Assault, Support and Specialist. In Modern Warfare 3, there are lots of new maps, weapons et cetera. However, the overall way the game is played is the same. DLC packs include maps from previous games, but they mostly need payment to unlock them. Players can play as an American, Briton, African, Russian or as a Frenchman, although this is randomly chosen. The multiplayer factions are Delta Force, Special Air Service, Spetsnaz, GIGN, Inner Circle, Africa Militia and PMC.
Development
On May 12, 2011, four teaser trailers were released on the official Call Of Duty YouTube channel. These trailers were called: America, England, France and Germany. The trailers suggest that the countries are locations for the game. On May 23, 2011, the reveal trailer was released. On May 31, 2011, Activision announced Call of Duty Elite. This is a social service for the Call of Duty community to compare progress, create videos and access premium content. The service will work with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and it will be launched at the same time as the game. On June 6, 2011, the first gameplay demo of the game was presented by Robert Bowling and Glen Schofield at E3 2011. On June 14, 2011, the first live gameplay demo of the new Survival Mode was played by Jimmy Fallon and Simon Pegg on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. On August 9, 2011, the trailer for the new Survival Mode was released on YouTube. On September 2, 2011, the multiplayer world premiere trailer was released on YouTube. On September 2–3, 2011, Activision held a two-day event called Call of Duty: Experience 2011, in Los Angeles, CA, to promote the game.
Reception
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sold 6.8 million copies in the US and UK alone and grossed $470 million within 24 hours. It grossed more than $775 million globally in the first 5 days. Modern Warfare 3 was also at the top of the UK video game sales chart in the first seven days. By November 21, 2011, the game was the bestselling title in the United Kingdom, sales dropping by 87%. Modern Warfare 3 was still the top spot on the UK charts in the third and fourth week. The PS3 version of Modern Warfare 3 was also at the top of the Japanese chart in its first week on sale. The PS3 version sold 180,372 copies, while the Xbox 360 version sold around 30,000.
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Bernried
Bernried is a municipality in the district of Deggendorf in Bavaria in Germany.
Parma Calcio 1913
SSD Parma Calcio 1913, commonly known as Parma, is an Italian football club from Parma, Emilia-Romagna. The club currently plays in the Serie A.
War Powers Resolution
The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. 1541–1548) is a federal law planned to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the approval of the U.S. Congress.
The resolution was adopted in the form of a United States congressional joint resolution. It says that the president can send the U.S. Armed Forces into action abroad only by declaration of war by Congress.
Taylorville, Illinois
Taylorville is a city in Illinois in the United States. It is the county seat of Christian County.
Justice Christopher
Justice Longs Christopher (24 December 1981 – 9 March 2022) was a Nigerian football player. He played for Nigeria national team.
Christopher died on 9 March 2022 in Jos, Nigeria at the age of 40.
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Tuscola, Illinois
Tuscola is a city in Illinois in the United States.
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A. B. Yehoshua
Abraham B. Yehoshua (, December 19, 1936 – June 14, 2022) was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner". Yehoshua was the author of eleven novels, three books of short stories, four plays, and four collections of essays, including Ahizat Moledet (Homeland Lesson, 2008).
Yehoshua died on June 14, 2022 at a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel from cancer at the age of 85.
Sprint
Sprints are short running races in athletics. They are events in which runners will not have to "pace themselves", but can run as fast as possible for the entire distance. These are often some of the more popular events in the Olympic Games. The most common distances are 60 meters, 100 meters, 200 meters ,400 meters and 1500 metres.
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Chyngyz Aitmatov (Чинги́з Тореку́лович Айтма́тов) (12 December 1928 – 10 June 2008) was a Soviet-Kyrgyz author and diplomat. He wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He is a famous author in Kyrgyzstan's literature. His best-known work abroad is a novel The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years, which has folklore and science fiction elements.
Aitmatov was born on 12 December 1928 in Sheker village, Kirghiz ASSR, USSR.
Aitmatov was first the ambassador for the Soviet Union and later for Kyrgyzstan, to the European Union, NATO, UNESCO and the Benelux countries. In 1963, he was honored with the Lenin Prize for his works in literature.
Aitmatov died on 10 June 2008 from kidney failure and pneumonia in Nuremberg, Germany, aged 79.
Piacenza Calcio
Piacenza Calcio is a football club which plays in Italy.
Church Father
The Church Fathers are ancient and influential Christian theologians, some of whom were great teachers or bishops. Only early teachers of Christianity are seen as Fathers by the Western Church. However, the Orthodox Church honors many more recent saints as "Fathers".
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia, is the southeastern part of Asia. There are ten countries in this region. All the countries in Southeast Asia are a part of ASEAN, except for East Timor. Some of the countries are mostly on the Asian mainland; they were formerly called Indochina. The others are only on island s. All of the countries in Southeast Asia are in the tropics except for the northernmost areas of Myanmar, which is in the subtropics. These are the countries in Southeast Asia: The United Nations also includes the region of North-east India and Bangladesh traditionally, due to ethnicity similarities and culturally as part of Southeast Asia.
Nico Rijnders
Reinier Johannes Maria "Nico" Rijnders (30 July 1947 – 16 March 1976) was a Dutch footballer who played for NAC Breda and Ajax Amsterdam. He was part of their European Cup victory in 1971. He earned 8 caps for the Netherlands national football team.
He collapsed on 12 November 1972 while playing for Club Brugge against RFC Liège. He was clinically dead when he was transported off the pitch. He was successfully reanimated by the club doctor but the incident ended Rijnders' playing career. His health condition was never fully recovered. He died three years later at age 28.
He was widely regarded to be one of the best defensive midfielders ever. He was renowned as a playmaker who knew how to make assists, pace, dribbling, man-marking and tackling.
Early life
Rijnders was born on July 30, 1947 in Breda. Rijnders registered with VV Baronie in 1958. As a youth player he made the switch to fellow town NAC in 1963.
Club career
He made his debut on May 16, 1965. In a cup match against Enschedese Boys he made the winning goal 2-1 in the last minute. After a year in the First Division, promotion was won in 1966. Rijnders lost the cup final with NAC in 1967. Because winner Ajax was also national champion, the team qualified for European football. With Rijnders in the field, NAC played against Floriana FC and Cardiff City. However, it was a difficult season for NAC in which relegation was narrowly avoided. After the season, Rijnders moved to sub-topper Go Ahead Eagles for a transfer fee of 150,000 guilders. Rijnders developed further with the Deventer team.
In the meantime, Rijnders had gone from Go Ahead to Ajax for 400,000 guilders in 1969. In his first season, the central midfielder and ball picker became national champion and cup winner with Ajax. The following year, the Amsterdam team again won the cup. They also won the European Cup. Panathinaikos was defeated at Wembley. In this match, Rijnders suffered from tightness in his chest. He was replaced at half time by Horst Blankenburg. Rijnders played 63 league matches for Ajax in two seasons, in which he scored four times. Remarkably enough, the hard-working and well-functioning Rijnders left for FC Brugge in the summer of 1971 in Belgium, which offered him a better contract than Ajax wanted to give him. Later it was suggested that the Ajax board led by Jaap van Praag was aware of his heart problems and therefore made little effort to keep him for the Amsterdam club.
Rijnders also did well in Bruges and had a permanent base place. The team played in the UEFA Cup. They finished second in the league, behind Anderlecht in the 1971–72 season. On 12 November 1972, Rijnders collapsed after ten minutes on the field during a home game against Club Liège. Rijnders was clinically dead. He was resuscitated in the catacombs by the then club doctor Michel D'Hooghe. He spent weeks in hospital. Later, he retired from professional football. He then became an assistant coach at Club Brugge.
International career
In October 1968 he was first included in the selection of the Dutch national team by national coach Georg Keẞler. He had previously played for the Dutch military team of coach Jan Zwartkruis. On April 16, 1969, he made his debut for the Orange squad, in a friendly against Czechoslovakia. Rijnders was a fixture in the Dutch national team in 1969 and 1970 and played a total of eight international matches. After November 1970 he disappeared from the base under the new national coach František Fadrhonc.
Randy Quaid
Randall Rudy "Randy" Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an American actor. He was born in Houston, Texas and has been in many movies. He is the brother of actor Dennis Quaid.
Nico Rijnders
Coaching career
In 1974 Rijnders became coach of the fourth division team Racing Harelbek. However, after new heart problems on Christmas Eve 1974, he was disqualified from all sports activities, including coaching. In July 1975, Ajax and Club Brugge organized a benefit match for Rijnders. Bruges was reinforced for the occasion with Johan Neeskens and Johan Cruijff played along with Ajax. The match ended in 3-0 for Bruges.
Rijnders also opened a sports shop in Bruges. The business soon went bankrupt. Rijnders' wife left him and is said to have had a drinking problem.
Death
On March 3, 1976, he became unwell while celebrating carnival in Deventer. After a few days in a Deventer hospital he came to. Rijnders died on March 16, 1976, alone in Bruges, in his home above his old sports shop, from a heart condition. He was 28 years old.
A cardiologist who treated Rijnders reported in 2009 on the basis of the medical file that the footballer suffered from congenital heart rhythm disorders. In 1976 these could not be determined and could not be remedied.
In 2020, the municipality of Amsterdam named a bridge in Park de Meer after him.
Valley
A valley is a type of landform. A valley is a lower part in the land that sits between two higher parts which might be hill s or mountains. Valleys often start as a downward fold between two upward folds in the surface of the Earth, and sometimes as a rift valley. A valley is made deeper by a stream of water or a river as it flows from the high land to the lower land, and into a lake or sea. Some valleys are made by glaciers which are slow-moving rivers of ice. Water or ice make a valley deeper or wider by erosion. Wind can also make valleys larger by erosion.
A valley has a "head" where it begins in the mountains or hills, "sides" where it rises up on either side, a "floor" which is where the valley is most flat. Some valleys have an "entrance" where the valley opening can be seen between two hills or mountains or cliffs. A place where a valley is very narrow and has high walls is sometimes called a "gorge". (This word "gorge" is sometimes used to mean the "throat" on a human body).
Many of the people of the world live in valleys because there is often a river or stream in a valley for fresh water, and there is often good soil in a valley to grow crops.
Valleys in mountains
Valleys that are high in the mountains are usually made deeper by a stream or small river running fast down the mountainside, from a place where there is lots of rainwater or melting snow, or by a glacier. The mountain stream winds around the biggest rocks and washes the soil away as it flows. It cuts a passage for itself through the softest soil and smallest stones. A small stream can cut a very deep valley. Valleys that are high in the mountains are usually V-shaped. There are many valleys like this in hills and mountains all over the world.
Valleys in hilly country
In country that has hills, but is not very steep, a river or stream runs more slowly. It makes a wider valley that often has some large bends as the river flows around the hills, always following the lowest way. Water running down from the hillsides often carries soil that spreads out across the valley, making flat land that is good for growing food crops and raising cattle and other animals. Many farms are in valleys that are in hilly land. Many towns are built on the sloping sides of valleys. Famous valleys of this type are the Loire Valley and the Lower Rhine Valley in Europe and the Thames Valley in England.
Valleys in flat country
Some valleys are almost flat, like a large saucer. Valleys of this type often have a very large river with many "tributaries" (streams that are like branches) running through them. The tributaries carry water from the hills or mountains that may be far from the main river. After heavy rain, lots of water rushes into the main river so that it rises and floods over the flat floor of the valley. When the flood waters spread, they drop lots of soil which has washed down from the hills. The soil that drops on the valley floor makes a flat flood plain. Valleys of this type are very useful for growing food crops. The widest valleys in the world are like this. Famous valleys of this type are the Mississippi-Missouri Basin in North America, the Amazon Basin in South America, the Lower Danube in Europe, the Ganges River Valley in India, the Nile River Flood Plain in Africa and the Darling River Basin in Australia.
Valleys made by glaciers
A glacier is like a frozen river. Many countries do not have any glaciers. A glacier starts in very high mountains where there is snow and ice all the year. The snow and ice starts to move down a valley that has been made by a fast-flowing stream. As the ice starts to slide down the mountainside, it does not flow around the rocks; it pushes the rocks out of the way. As a glacier moves, it picks up more ice and gets bigger and bigger. A big glacier cuts through the soil and softer rock of the valley and piles up the rocks on either side, or pushes them in front of it. When a big glacier melts, it leaves a valley of a deep U-shape. Many valleys like this were made in the Ice Ages. In mountainous countries like Switzerland many people live in the valleys that were made by glaciers. Some of the deepest valleys in the world were made by glaciers. The fjords of Norway and "sounds" of New Zealand are where glaciers went into the sea.
Lemont, Illinois
Lemont is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Valley
Valleys in plateau country
A plateau is high land that is flat on top, or gently rolling, not pointed like mountains or rounded like hills. In hilly or mountainous country, the bands of a soil and rock are folded, but in a plateau the strata are in flat layers. The water that makes streams on the top of a plateau cuts down in wide valleys with sides that are steep cliffs and a bottom that is quite flat. Valleys like this are often deep and very narrow. Some valleys like this are very deep and wide. They are called "canyons". Famous valleys of this type are the Grand Canyon in the United States and the Megalong Valley in Australia.
Fiat Duna
The Fiat Duna is an automobile made by Fiat between 1987 and 2000. It is a sedan and station wagon version of the Fiat Uno.
Valley
Sunken valleys
Sometimes a valley has been formed in the hills near the coast of a country. Movement in the Earth's surface may cause the land to sink lower and become flooded by the sea. The shape of the valley can still be seen from the tops of the hills that stick out from the water. Some of the hills may become islands, and others become the shore of a bay. Sunken valleys often make good harbours. The east coast of Australia has many sunken valleys of which the most famous is Sydney Harbour.
Norwegian campaign
The German invasion of Norway occurred on 8 April 1940 during World War II and led to battles between the Allies and Germany.
Enzo Calzaghe
Enzo Calzaghe MBE (1 January 1949 – 17 September 2018) was an Italian-born British boxing trainer. He was best known for training his son Joe in an undefeated career. He ran a boxing training centre in Newbridge, Wales. He was also a musician.
Early life
He was born in Sassari on the Italian island of Sardinia. He also had two other children with his wife, Jackie.
Death
Calzaghe died after an illness on 17 September 2018, at the age of 69.
Toledo, Illinois
Toledo is a village in Illinois in the United States. It is the county seat of Cumberland County.
Haruna Babangida
Haruna Babangida (born 1 October 1982) is a Nigerian football player. He plays for Kuban Krasnodar.
Club career statistics
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Itasca, Illinois
Itasca is a village in Illinois in the United States. It is close to O'Hare International Airport.
Buchhofen
Buchhofen is a municipality in the district of Deggendorf in Bavaria in Germany.
Perfumer
A perfumer is an expert on making perfumes. A perfumer must know lots of different fragrance ingredients and their smells. A perfumer must be able to know the kind of ingredients whether they are alone or mixed together with other fragrances.
Arnold Skaaland
Arnold Skaaland (January 21, 1925 – March 13, 2007) was an American professional wrestler and manager, He was best known for wrestling and managing with the World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Federation. He was nicknamed "The Golden Boy". During his managing career, he managed Bob Backlund, Tony Parisi, Bruno Sammartino and Rick McGraw. He was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame in 1994 by Bob Backlund.
Championships
Skaaland held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
Lydie Dooh Bunya
Lydie Dooh Bunya (born in 1933 in Douala) is a Cameroonian feminist, journalist, and woman of letters.
She studied at Chimie ParisTech. She was a journalist and columnist at ORTF. She was influenced by Simone de Beauvoir. She founded the Mouvement pour la défense des droits de la femme noire (MODEFEN) in 1981.
Oxymoron
An oxymoron is a term for a figure of speech. It is made up of two or more words that seem to be opposite to each other, or actually are opposite.
For example, the phrases "Wise fool", "Warm freezer", and "Legal murder" all have two words. In each one, the one word looks like the opposite of the other word.
You can have words that look opposite, but are right. For example, a "warm freezer" could be right. A freezer could be warm if it was turned off or left open.
The word oxymoron is an oxymoron; 'oxy' comes from the Greek word that means 'sharp', while 'moron' comes from the Greek word that means 'dull'.
Words that really are opposite to each other, would be words that just cannot be put together. For example, a "round square" could not happen because squares are not round.
Oxymorons sometimes appear in jokes. Sometimes, the joke is just to say that a pair of words are an oxymoron. For example, a joke that says that "glutted peasant" is an oxymoron. This means that peasants are usually hungry, if the word 'peasant' is opposite to 'glutted'.
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
Four Seasons Hotels Limited, trading as Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, is a Canadian hotel company. Their headquarters is in Toronto. Most Four Seasons hotels are five-star hotels, meaning they are expensive.
Travel + Leisure magazine and Zagat Survey ranked this grid 98th among the best luxury hotels in the world. Readers of Condé Nast Traveller voted for the Golden Triangle (the company's real estate in northern Thailand) as the world's favourite for three years in a row. The company has been named one of Fortune's "100 Best Employers" every year since the 1998 survey.
History
Founded in 1960 in Canada by Isador Sharp, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, the company opened its first hotel in the red-light district of Toronto. In 1970, the chain's first overseas hotel opened in London. In 1986, the company went public, entering the stock market, but in 2007 it became private again (Sharpe bought shares from the market and resold them to private funds).
The main owners of the company: the founder of the company Isadore Sharp (5%), as well as the companies Cascade Investment and Kingdom Hotels (47.5% each), owned, respectively, by Bill Gates and the nephew of the King of Saudi Arabia, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.
Grafton, New Hampshire
Grafton is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,340 at the 2010 census.
Grandval
Grandval can mean:
Brenda Holloway
Brenda Holloway (born 21 June 1946, California) is an American singer-songwriter. Her genre is R&B. She covered the songs When I'm Gone, You've Made Me so Very Happy and many others. She worked for Motown Records in the 1960s.
Oberthal
Oberthal can mean:
Wayne, Illinois
Wayne is a village in Illinois in the United States.
OK
OK (okay) is a word in the English language. It is used to mean that something is good or correct. It is the opposite of the word bad.
It can often be used instead of the word Yes. It is not certain where the word "OK" originally comes from, but some experts say it came from a funny way of writing "Ol Korrect" (All correct).
It is also the two-letter abbreviation for the state of Oklahoma in the United States of America.
You also find the phrase "Ola kala" in Greek, which means "All Correct".
I think it is  'ok' to present this project in our office.
Background
The term appears to have achieved prominence in the United States in 1840, when supporters of the American Democratic political party claimed during the 1840 United States presidential election that it stood for "Old Kinderhook," a nickname for a Democratic presidential candidate, Martin Van Buren, a native of Kinderhook, New York. "'Vote for OK' was snappier than using his Dutch name." In response, Whig opponents attributed OK, in the sense of "Oll Korrect," to Andrew Jackson's bad spelling. The country-wide publicity surrounding the election appears to have been a critical event in okay's history, widely and suddenly popularizing it across the United States.
Mike Fitzpatrick
Michael Gerard Fitzpatrick (June 28, 1963 – January 6, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing PA's 8th congressional district from 2005 to 2007 and 2011 to 2017.
After loosing his re-election bid in 2006, he was re-elected in 2010, 2012 and 2014. He was a supporter of term limits and did not seek re-election in 2016 and retired in 2017.
He had a moderate conservative position, and ranked among the most bipartisan members of Congress.
Fitzpatrick was diagnosed with colon cancer in June 2008. He reported five months later that the cancer went into remission after chemotherapy. In 2016, he had surgery after the cancer returned and continued to have the disease until his death.
Fitzpatrick died in Levittown, Pennsylvania on January 6, 2020 from melanoma at the age of 56.
Makibishi
Makibishi are a small flat spiked objects that were used in feudal Japan. The samurai used them to slow down or stop their enemies.
Weisslingen
Weisslingen, locally often called: Wislig, is a municipality of the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Westmont, Illinois
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AC Reggiana 1919
A.C. Reggiana 1919, more commonly known as just Reggiana, is a football club which plays in Italy.
List of The Powerpuff Girls characters
Below is a list of characters from the television show comedy-action franchise The Powerpuff Girls.
Kathie Lee Gifford
Kathie Lee Gifford (born August 16, 1953) is an American talk show host, singer and actress. She is best known for hosting Live with Regis and Kathie Lee from 1985-2000 with Regis Philbin. She later co-hosted the fourth hour of NBC's Today show. She has received 11 Daytime Emmy nominations. She won her first Daytime Emmy in 2010 as part of the cast in The Today Show.
Before she hosted talk shows, Gifford's first television appearance was Tom Kennedy's singer/sidekick on Name That Tune, from 1974-1978.
She also appeared in television advertisements for Carnival Cruise Lines since 1984.
Early life
Gifford's paternal grandfather was of Russian Jewish descent and her paternal grandmother was of Native American ancestry. Her mother was a relative of Rudyard Kipling, was of French Canadian, English and German descent and was raised in a snake handler family. After seeing the Billy Graham produced film, The Restless Ones at age 12, Gifford became a born-again Christian. She told Larry King, "I was raised with many Jewish traditions and raised to be very grateful for my Jewish heritage." Her brother, Rev. David Paul Epstein, is an evangelical Baptist preacher and pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in New York City.
The 1970s
Gifford represented Maryland in America's Junior Miss Pageant in 1970.
During one summer in the early 1970s, she was a live-in secretary/babysitter for Anita Bryant at her home in Miami. Gifford's career took off in the 1970s (during her first marriage to Christian composer, arranger, producer and publisher Paul Johnson) as a vocalist on the game show Name That Tune with Tom Kennedy (she performed the "sing a tune" segment as Kathie Lee Johnson). In 1978, she joined the cast of the short-lived Hee Haw spinoff, Hee Haw Honeys.
Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
After she was divorced from Johnson in 1983, Gifford met sports commentator Frank Gifford (born August 16, 1930) during an episode of ABC's Good Morning America; they both married in 1986. By that time she was several months into her most famous television role, as a full-time morning talk show personality. On June 24, 1985, she replaced Ann Abernathy as co-host of The Morning Show on WABC-TV with Regis Philbin. The program went into national broadcast in 1988 as ''Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee'', and Gifford became well-known across the country. In the 1990s, millions of morning-TV viewers watched her descriptions of life at home with her husband and their two children. She appeared as a spokesperson for Slim Fast diet shakes after her son, Cody, was born. She also was a celebrity of Carnival Cruises in the late 1980s and early 1990s, singing "If my friends could see me now!" Gifford left Live with Regis and Kathie Lee on 2000 after 15 years to focus on spending time with family and continue her singing career.
1996 sweatshop controversy
Labor activist, Charles Kernaghan, spoke on media. He accused Gifford of being responsible for the sweatshop management activity. Gifford addressed Kernaghan's allegations on the air during Live, explaining that she was not involved with hands-on project management in factories.
Gifford later contacted Federal authorities to investigate the issue and worked with U.S. Federal legislative and executive branch agencies to support and enact laws to protect children against sweat shop conditions. She met with President Bill Clinton at the White House in order to support of the government's initiatives to counter international sweatshop abuses.
Today
On March 31, 2008, NBC announced that Gifford was to join its morning show, Today, as co-host of the fourth hour, alongside Hoda Kotb. This marked her return to morning television; in many markets, she now airs directly after her old show, now called Live! with Kelly and Michael. Because the fourth hour of Today airs live at 10:00am ET, and ''Live! with Kelly and Michael'' airs live at 9:00am ET, Gifford's hour does not compete directly with her former show in most markets. Kotb and Gifford replaced Ann Curry and Natalie Morales.
She started hosting Today on April 7, 2008 with Hoda Kotb.
Niederwil
Niederwil can mean:
Medical emergency
A medical emergency is an injury or illness that poses an immediate threat to a person's long-term health or life. It needs to be treated immediately. Doctors that are trained in emergency medicine are taught how to react to medical emergencies, and how to resuscitate patients.
Response
The people that answer emergency calls, emergency medical dispatchers, will ask questions about the person who needs immediate treatment; some of the questions are whether the person is conscious, how badly injured they are, their name if it is known, and if they have any other illnesses. They will also ask some basic information about the called, such as the name of the person calling.
Many countries have laws that require anyone to help those in immediate danger. Help can mean as little as alerting emergency services, or telling other people that the person is having a problem. People that know first aid are expected to help as much as they can. Moving the victim to a safe place can sometimes do more harm than good, and should be left to people that know how to properly move injured people unless there is no alternative (for example, in wilderness first aid). Many states have laws that protect those helping.
If the victim is not breathing, or if a heartbeat cannot be felt, artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) could be needed to keep a person's blood circulating long enough for medics to attempt revival. Emergency medical technicians, Outdoor Emergency Care technicians or paramedics can use airway management techniques to help a person who is not breathing.
Clinical response
While in a hospital environment, staff members that are on duty are trained to deal with emergency situations. Emergency medical physicians are trained to deal with many medical emergencies, and have up-to-date cardiopulmonary resuscitation and advanced cardiac life support certificates. In major incidents, most hospitals have protocols to have staff that are not at work at the hospital to go on duty as fast as they can.
Statistics
Most emergencies are quite unspectacular. They will happen close to home.
Of all emergencies:
Insignificance
Insignificance is a feeling that nothing you do matters, or that you are not important. People may feel this for many reasons. For example, having low self-esteem, being depressed, living in a large city with many people, comparing themselves to rich celebrity success stories, working in a large bureaucracy, or being in awe of a natural wonder.
People living in crowded, major cities may face feelings of insignificance. George Simmel says that when people live in a big city, they may start to feel like "...just another face in the crowd", it can "lead to feelings of insignificance...".
Shotgun
A shotgun usually one or two barrels, each with a chamber to hold a shell. These barrels can be next to each other ('side-by-side') or on top of each other ('over-and-under'). There are many types of shotguns with different ways of loading and shooting. Some will snap open, and shells can be put inside until they are shot again. These are called break-open shotguns. Others hold more shells and are pumped back and forth to shoot. These are called pump-action shotguns. Some shotguns are semi-automatic, so each time the trigger is pulled, one shot is fired without any need to use a pump or a lever. These are semi-automatic shotguns. Some shotguns are fully automatic, meaning that pulling and holding the trigger back will keep shooting the gun without needing to reload until the shotgun is out of ammunition. These are automatic shotguns. However, the last type are uncommon.
Shotguns can also fire things that do not kill people. Police use things like rubber balls and beanbags filled with the small metal balls instead, to cause non-deadly injuries.
Ernest J. Sternglass
Ernest Joachim Sternglass (September 24, 1923 – February 12, 2015) was an German-American physicist and writer. He was the emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project.
Jonesboro, Illinois
Jonesboro is a city in Illinois in the United States.
Ernest J. Sternglass
Sternglass was best known for his controversial research on the health risks of low-level radiation from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and from nuclear power plants.
Oberwil
Oberwil can mean:
Nils Nilsson (ice hockey player)
Career
Nilsson won the world title in 1957 and 1962, finishing second in 1963 and 1967 and third in 1958 and 1965. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics, and finished in fourth, fifth and second place, respectively. He was the best forward of the 1960 tournament and was selected to the all-star team at the 1962 World Championships.
Nilsson won only one national title, in his last season (1969). Yet he was awarded the Goldpucken award in 1966 as the best Swedish player and the Rinkens riddare award in 1967 for sportsmanlike behavior, and was selected to the Swedish all-star team in 1959, 1960, 1962, 1965 and 1967.
Nilsson also played football with Djurgårdens IF, IK Göta and Karlstad BK, and won the national title with Djurgården in 1959. After retiring from competitions he worked as a product developer with Jofa, a Swedish manufacturer of sporting equipment.
Death
Nilsson died in Stockholm, Sweden on 24 June 2017 at the age of 81.
Ukraine Today
Ukraine Today is a satellite television channel from Ukraine. It broadcasts in English. In the future it will broadcast in Russian. It is owned by 1+1 Media Group. The channel's headquarters is in Kyiv.
Beginning
Ukraine Today began on the 14th August 2014, live on YouTube and the Eutelsat Hotbird satellite. It showed a testcard and words telling people how to receive the channel. On Independence Day in Ukraine, the 24th August, the channel launch officially, and began to show news.
Format
Ukraine Today says that it focuses on Ukrainian current affairs, EU expansion, Russia's relations with Europe and America, and the difficulties of building a country in the 21st century.
Ukraine Today started broadcasting with a Euronews-style, with no presenters or studio, just videos of the news. Once more staff are employed, Ukraine Today will become a more traditional channel with a studio and presenters.
Cessna Citation X
The Cessna Citation X is a twin-turbojet business jet designed and built in the United States. It can carry between eight and twelve passengers. It is a swept-wing aircraft built entirely of metal. Its first flight was in 1996.
Christian Bourquin
Christian Bourquin (7 October 1954 – 26 August 2014) was a French politician. He was a member of the Socialist Party. He has been the president of the Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon from 2010 until his death in 2014. He served as Mayor of Millas from 1995 through 2001. He was born at Saint-Féliu-d'Amont, Pyrenees-Orientales.
Bourquin died in Montpellier, Hérault, France, aged 59.
Levittown, Pennsylvania
Levittown is a census-designated place (CDP) and planned community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States, within the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The population was 52,983 at the 2010 census.
Dover, Nova Scotia
Dover is an unincorporated community within Guysborough County in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is 7 km southwest of Canso and approximately 210 km northeast of Halifax.
Beavercreek, Oregon
Beavercreek is an unincorporated hamlet and a census-designated place (CDP) in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. The population was 4,485 at the 2010 census.
World War III
World War III is the name given to a possible third world war. It refers to a world war that may happen. It would be the successor to World War II (1939–1945).
A world war might be fought by multiple countries of the world against one other, sometimes across different continents. An all-out war fought between two or three major superpowers would be a world war.
Because technology and weapons have become so advanced, most people agree that if World War III ever happens, nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons may be used. Biological weapons are living things, usually bacteria or viruses. Chemical weapons might not kill quickly but poison people or their land. Together, nuclear, biological and chemical weapons are called weapons of mass destruction. Conventional weapons, on the other hand are "normal" weapons like guns or non-nuclear bombs.
Mass destruction could damage much of the Earth, kill many humans, animals and other living things, and cause the collapse of modern civilization. Albert Einstein is often quoted as having said: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones". Einstein might not have actually said this, but other things that he said show that he believed the weapons used in World War III might be so devastating that they would end civilization as we know it.
Actual events called World War III
Some events, for example the Cold War, have been called "World War III." US President George W. Bush compared the War on Terrorism to World War III.
Neither was even remotely like what a world war would be. The Cold War was not fought on a large scale, and the Iraq War was largely conventional and was mostly contained in one general area. Terrorism is indeed a form of conflict, but it is not a world war.
Aquele Beijo
Aquele Beijo (That Kiss) is a Brazilian historical telenovela. It was first shown in 2011. The series starred Giovanna Antonelli, Ricardo Pereira and Grazi Massafera.
Humphreys County, Tennessee
Humphreys County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. In the 2020 census, 18,990 people lived there. The county seat is Waverly.
Emptiness
While Christianity and Western sociologists and psychologists consider a state of emptiness as a negative, bad condition, in some Eastern philosophies such as Buddhist philosophy and Taoism, emptiness is seen as a real achievement.
Kvinnliga IK Sport
Kvinnliga IK Sport is a sports club in Gothenburg in Sweden. Just as the name says the club only runs women's activity. Since the late 1970s men are however allowed to be board members. The club nowadays only runs handball activity., The handball team won 14 Swedish national indoor championship titles between 1951 and 1972 (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1969, 1971 and 1972). Earlier the club even ran cycling, gymnastics, track and field athletics, speedskating and orienteering.
Division of Forde
The Division of Forde is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. It was set up in 1984, and is named after Frank Forde, Prime Minister of Australia in 1945. At first it covered the southern suburbs of Brisbane, but changes have moved the area of the division into the semi-rural areas south of the city. This includes Beenleigh, Bethania, Boronia Heights, Chambers Flat, Cornubia, Eagleby, Edens Landing, Loganholme, Logan Reserve, Mount Warren Park, Ormeau Hills, Park Ridge, Tanah Merah, Upper Coomera, Waterford, Waterford West and Windaroo as well as parts of Daisy Hill, Heritage Park, Loganlea, Munruben, Ormeau, Park Ridge South and Shailer Park.
Members
On 8 August 2013, it was announced former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie would contest the seat of Forde at the 2013 election.
Joe Calzaghe
Joseph William Calzaghe CBE (born 23 March 1972) is a Welsh former professional boxer. His boxing nicknames include "The Pride of Wales" and "The Italian Dragon".
Calzaghe competed from 1993 to 2008. He was trained by his father Enzo. The younger Calzaghe was a champion in two weight classes. He was the unified WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO and Ring magazine super-middleweight champion. He was also the Ring light-heavyweight champion. BoxRec.com ranks him as the best British super-middleweight boxer of all time. He went undefeated in his professional career, having a record 46–0. He had famous wins against boxers such as Mikkel Kessler, Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. (in his final fight). He retired on 5 February 2009. In 2007, Calzaghe won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
Calzaghe was born in Hammersmith, London, England. His father, musician-turned-trainer Enzo (1949–2018), was from the island of Sardinia, Italy. His mother is Welsh. He grew up in Newbridge, Wales. He has two sons with his former wife Mandy Davies.
Hennepin, Illinois
Hennepin is a village in Illinois in the United States. It is the county seat of Putnam County.
Hell River
Hell River also known as Partisans (Partizani / Партизани) and The Last Guerilla is a 1974 Serbian World War II movie directed by Stole Jankovic and starring Rod Taylor, Adam West, Brioni Farrell, Peter Carsten, Bata Živojinović, Branko Pleša, Janez Vrhovec, Dragomir Felba.
Vought F7U Cutlass
The Vought F7U Cutlass is a navalized fighter aircraft that served in the U.S. Navy. It was used for the Cold War, from American aircraft carriers. None were sold to other countries. Some Vought F7U Cutlass were modified for aerial reconnaissance as F7U-3P. It was used by the Blue Angels in 1953.
Jerome Kersey
Jerome Kersey (June 26, 1962 – February 18, 2015) was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association. He was born in Clarksville, Virginia. He was known for playing with the Portland Trail Blazers from 1984 until 1995. He also served in various coaching roles in the NBA. He died in Tualatin, Oregon.
Motorcycle
A motorcycle (or motorbike) is a vehicle used to transport people from one place to another. It does not have 4 wheels like a car. It has 2 wheels like a bicycle, and it has a motor like a car. A motorcycle is usually driven by one person. A passenger can also ride on the back of the motorcycle. Some motorcycles have a sidecar that can carry another passenger.
In 1901, the first successful motorcycle was made by the company called "Indian motorcycles" in Springfield, Massachusetts. Since then, many other companies have made them. Major manufacturers include Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha. A well known American manufacturer of motorcycles is Harley-Davidson.
Since motorcycles are lighter than almost all cars, they can accelerate more quickly. But it also makes them not as safe as cars, because they do not have a protecting chassis around them like cars. Very often motorcycle riders are injured heavily in accidents. Motorcycle riders should wear a helmet and other protective clothing like shoes and gloves, of which some have armor. This special clothing may reduce the rider's injuries in an accident. Motorcycles also do not protect riders against wind and rain. That makes it difficult to drive in winter or during bad weather.
In poor countries, motorcycles are used by many as a cheap method of transportation. Many people who do not have the money to buy a car can afford a small motorcycle. In rich countries, large powerful motorcycles are used more as a hobby or sport.
Off road
On-road bikes (ones that are allowed on public roads) require the rider to have a special type of driver's license to be ridden legally. Off-road bikes are not allowed to be driven on public roads.