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And a primary buffer that Amazon has used centers upon doling out grants of stock options to insiders.

All eighth- and 11th-grade DCPS students studying a foreign language are eligible to apply for the program, which centers upon language immersion, global leadership and service learning.

An immigrant advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on behalf of teenagers who were transferred from government shelters to ICE detention centers upon turning 18.

The dispute at hand centers upon the state's lead prosecutor, Doug Evans, who represented the state during all six trials even though there was no physical evidence to prove Flowers committed the crime.

Much of the intrigue centers upon the relationship between Stephen Bannon, the former Breitbart News executive who is now a senior counselor to the president, and former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who is now White House chief of staff.

With the debt limit now expected to hit this fall thanks to the Treasury's "extraordinary measures" and some natural fluctuations, this week's fight centers upon government funding — specifically, the fact that it's running out on Friday, requiring Congress to pass something or risk a shutdown.

Jean-François Parot's historical novel Le sang des farines (Eng. title: The Baker's Blood) centers upon the events in Paris during the Flour War.

Gayville centers upon the intersection of County Route 23, County Route 23A, and Grannis Road. Within Gayville Potter Creek joins Scriba Creek, which flows southward to empty into Oneida Lake.

Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security is a 1999 book by reporter Bill Gertz. It was first published on May 25, 1999 through Regnery Publishing and centers upon the Clinton administration.

A Season of Stones is a 1991 non-fiction book by Helen Winternitz. The book was released in October 1991 through the Atlantic Monthly Press and centers upon Winternitz's time in the West Bank village of Nahalin.

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires is a 2020 horror novel by American author Grady Hendrix. It was first published on April 7, 2020 through Quirk Books and centers upon a women's book club that faces a vampiric threat.

In 2012, Bydlak founded the Coalition to Reduce Spending (CRS). The primary policy goal of CRS is to advocate for reduced government spending. The Coalition's advocacy centers upon its Reject the Debt candidate pledge and SpendingTracker.org, which tracks federal government spending.

Florence Adler Swims Forever is the debut novel of American author Rachel Beanland. It was first published in the United States on July 7, 2020 through Simon & Schuster and centers upon a family living in Atlantic City during the 1930s.

The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape what he views as the empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theater, Wilhelm commits himself to the mysterious Tower Society.

Beat The House is an American reality series that aired on HGTV. It is hosted by real estate agents JoJo Jones and Christopher Kromer, and centers upon both realtors competing for the same customers. The show's began airing on January 7, 2014.

Angel Angel is the 1995 debut novel by American writer April Stevens. The story, set in Connecticut, centers upon a dysfunctional suburban family whose malaise is challenged by the introduction of the older son's live-in girlfriend. The novel, published by Viking Press, was well received.

The historic cultural landscape centers upon various subsistence or commercial land uses. The riparian and tributary environments were used for subsistence and irrigation farming. Transportation networks, irrigation structures, simple domestic residences and outbuildings, and planed and terraced farm land lining the stream banks characterize these landscapes.

Occupied Minds: A Palestinian-Israeli journey beyond hope and despair is a 2006 documentary film that was written, produced, and directed by journalists Jamal Dajani and David Michaelis. The film first released in the United States on March 2006 and centers upon the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

A Taste of Honey is a 2016 LGBT fantasy romantic novella by Kai Ashante Wilson. It is set in the same universe as his previous novella, The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps. It centers upon the forbidden relationship between an Olorumi royal and a Daluçan peace envoy.

The story takes place in the fictional land of Midcyru. It centers upon Kylar, the Night Angel, once an apprentice of Durzo Blint, a former celebrated wetboy and his journey for retribution against those who torn his kingdom asunder in a coup months prior to the events of the novel.

The Remaining is a 2014 American apocalyptic horror film directed by Casey La Scala, who co-wrote the script with Chris Dowling. The film had a limited theatrical release on September 5, 2014 and centers upon a group of friends that are forced to examine their lives after the Apocalypse strikes.

Entity is a 2012 British supernatural thriller film written and directed by Steve Stone. The film had its world premiere on 25 October 2012, at the Bram Stoker International Film Festival. It stars Dervla Kirwan, Charlotte Riley, and Branko Tomovic and centers upon a British reality show film crew that encounters a dark entity.

Survivor Song is a 2020 horror novel by American author Paul Tremblay. It was first published on July 7, 2020 through William Morrow and centers upon people struggling to survive while a highly infectious virus decimates Massachusetts. Two characters from Tremblay's 2017 novel Disappearance at Devil's Rock, Josh and Luis, appear in the novel.

We Sold Our Souls is a 2018 horror novel by American writer Grady Hendrix. It was first published in the United States in print, ebook, and audiobook formats by Quirk Books on September 18, 2018. The novel centers upon a metal guitarist who discovers that her soul was sold by a former bandmate in order to achieve success.

The Rise of the Black Wolf is the second volume of the Grey Griffins series written by American authors Derek Benz and J. S. Lewis and published by Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. This sequel to The Revenge of the Shadow King centers upon the adventures of the Grey Griffins as they visit Max's father in Scotland.

Deadtown, an upcoming television series from Amazon Studios, an adaptation of the Catherynne M. Valente novel The Refrigerator Monologues, centers upon five recently deceased women who meet in Deadtown, a purgatory where they discover that their entire lives were merely in service to the superhero men, resulting in each of their deaths once they provided emotional backstory for the men.

The show's premise centers upon the show's two hosts, JoJo Jones and Christopher Kromer, approaching a prospective customer that is ready to purchase a house from a third real estate agent. The hosts then show the customer two additional homes, giving them the option to remain with their previous choice or to choose between the houses that the two hosts have presented.

The third novel centers upon Elen. She has managed to free a fellow shifter and friend, Cormack, from being perpetually trapped as a wolf. As he has always been in love with her, Cormack wants to woo and win Elen's heart, but finds that he must first defeat one of the Guardians that is intent on claiming her - and her power - for himself.

Alex + Ada is an American comic book series created by Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn. The duo began work on the series in January 2013, before publishing 15 issues through Image Comics between November 2013 and June 2015. The series has since been collected into three trade paperbacks. Alex + Ada centers upon the relationship between a lonely man and an intelligent android.

Black Mountain Side is a 2014 Canadian indie Horror thriller directed by Nick Szostakiwkyj and starring Shane Twerdun, Michael Dickson, Carl Toftfelt, Marc Anthony Williams, Andrew Moxham, Timothy Lyle, and Steve Bradley. It was the first film released by the Canadian production company A Farewell To Kings Entertainment Company. The film centers upon a group of archaeologists who discover an ancient structure.

Your Big Family Renovation is an American reality series that began airing on HGTV, on March 3, 2015.YOUR BIG FAMILY RENOVATION It is hosted by Brandon and Jen Hatmaker, and centers upon them showing homes which have potential to large and growing families. The Hatmakers after the family decides on their home work with their contractors on fixing up and revitalizing the homes.

Glamourcon was a fan convention that took place twice a year, once in Chicago and once in Los Angeles, that centers upon glamour models and glamour photography, with its guests typically being Playboy Playmates, Penthouse Pets, Hustler Honeys, Perfect 10 Models, soft core pornographic actresses and other pin-up models. A portmanteau of the phrase "glamour convention", it was founded by entrepreneur Robert Schulz.

Time Lapse is a 2014 American indie sci-fi thriller directed by Bradley D. King and starring Danielle Panabaker, Matt O'Leary, and George Finn. King's directorial debut, it centers upon a group of friends who discover a machine that can take pictures of things 24 hours into the future, causing increasingly complex causal loops. It premiered on April 18, 2014 at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival.

Chitra is a one-act play written by Rabindranath Tagore, first published in English in 1913 by the India Society of London. The play adapts part of the story from the Mahabharata and centers upon the character of Chitrangada, a female warrior who tries to attract the attention of Arjuna. Chitra has been performed worldwide and has been adapted into several different formats, such as dance.

Furthermore, there is a struggle for dominance between men and women. As Pinchwife says, ‘”If we do not cheat women, they’ll cheat us” is the very basis for the chief plot of the play, “which centers upon the exchange of positions of dominance within his own family.”Vieth, David M. “Wycherley’s The Country Wife: An Anatomy of Masculinity.” Papers on Language and Literature 2, no.

The Painting Pool (, translit. Hoze Naghashi) is a 2013 Iranian drama film written and directed by Maziar Miri. The film released on March 13, 2013 in Tehran and centers upon the interpersonal dynamics between a set of mentally challenged parents and their child. Iran reviewed the movie as a potential selection for contention for a 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not select the film.

The tale centers upon a poor family in rural Spain and the gradual mechanization of their environment. Widower Antón de Chinta and his two young children (Pinín and Rosa) own a cow. The animal, which serves as a representation of the family's deteriorating economic situation, is affectionately called Cordera or lamb, and has become a family pet. The story begins in a pastoral setting interrupted by a telegraph pole.

Kan Pesum Vaarthaigal () is a 2013 Tamil-language drama film directed by R. Balaji. Produced and written by R. Saravanakumar, the film stars Mirchi Senthil and Iniya in the lead roles, while Livingston, Aadukalam Murugadoss, Jangiri Madhumitha, and Rajendran play supporting roles. The music was composed by Shamanth. The film was released on 22 March 2013 and centers upon a young man who rethinks his life after his father attempts suicide.

The werewolf diet, also known as the lunar diet and the moon diet, is a fad diet that centers upon users fasting according to the lunar phases. This has prompted people to nickname the diet plan the "werewolf diet" as a result. Celebrities that have endorsed the diet include Demi Moore and Madonna. The diet is typically performed in one of two fashions: the "basic moon plan" or the "extended version".

During these off seasons, the Tao people are charged with producing goods and recreation. Fishing is the main way in which Tao men can make a living on the island. A crucial component of Tao life centers upon the building of their fishing boats. As a device used for their sole method of securing sustenance and monetary gain, they place great emphasis on the production of these boats.

A short documentary on his life "Street Animal" by Doug Harden can be viewed on YouTube. The feature screenplay, "The Third Round", written by Ben Fiore and Bobby's ring rival, Guy 'The Rock' Casale, features segments of Bobby's life and career and centers upon their big fight at Madison Square Garden in 1978. (See: www.facebook.com/thethirdround.) Bobby Halpern out-lived his siblings and died on February 8, 2015.

The show centers upon Zack and Cody Martin, twin brothers who live in the Tipton Hotel (parody of the Hilton Hotel) in Boston, where their mother, Carey, sings and performs in the hotel lounge. However, it also centers upon the hotel owner's teenage daughter, London Tipton (a parody of Paris Hilton), who is very wealthy and ditzy, the hotel's down-to-earth candy-counter girl, Maddie Fitzpatrick,(dead link) and Mr. Moseby, the strict, dutiful, and serious manager, who is often the foil to Zack and Cody's schemes and has a liking to the piano, pocket hankies and ballet. The show is often set at the Tipton Hotel, but has other settings such as Zack and Cody's school, Cheevers High,Zack and Cody episode: "Election" and Maddie and London's private school, Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow Catholic.Zack and Cody episode: "Forever Plaid" Zack and Cody often get in trouble (sometimes unintentionally) and come up with witty ideas to get out of it.

The Walls Around Us is a 2015 number one New York Times best selling young adult novel by Nova Ren Suma. It was first published on March 24, 2015, through Algonquin Young Readers and centers upon three young women, two of which are held in a prison and accused of separate murders, and a third that is tied to both accused murderers. A paperback edition of the book was released on March 22, 2016.

Sharra L. Vostral is a Professor of History and Science and Technology at the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University. She has written two books about menstruation and history: Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology and Toxic Shock: A Social History. Vostral is affiliated with both Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and American Studies. Her research centers upon the history of technology, specifically gender, and histories of medical devices and health.

The Light Bearer is a 1994 historical novel by Donna Gillespie set in first century Rome, during the reigns of the Emperors Nero and Domitian. The novel centers upon three historical events: the Emperor Domitian’s war with the Germanic Chattian tribe in 83 A.D.; the inauguration of the Colosseum, or Amphitheatrum Flavium; and the assassination of Domitian. In dramatizing the assassination, the author follows the details given by first-century Roman historian Suetonius.

Ninjala centers upon an eponymous tournament being held by the World Ninja Association (WNA), which developed bubblegum that could be used to allow people with the DNA of a ninja to perform ninjutsu. The game focuses primarily on melee combat using various types of weapons. The player can double-jump and run along walls to navigate the map. A match can be played between up to eight players in either teams or a solo "Battle Royale".

Four generations of Crowninshields lived in the house until 1832. Its main historical interest centers upon Reverend William Bentley, a boarder from 1791 to 1819. It has been suggested that this house may be the model for "the old Crowninshield house" mentioned in the H. P. Lovecraft story "The Thing on the Doorstep" (his Arkham was modeled on the town of Ipswich, even though most critiques like to place it as Ipswich's more famous neighbor, Salem).

Truth or Dare is a 2013 American horror film and the directorial debut of Jessica Cameron, who also starred in, wrote, and produced the film. The movie had its world premiere on 13 September 2013 at the Arizona Underground Film Festival, where it also won Best Horror Feature. Truth or Dare centers upon a group of college students that publish YouTube videos that gain them not only world-wide infamy but also an obsessed fan turned deadly stalker.

The story centers upon a 20-year- old college student, Ushoshi Mitra, whose dream is to become an Indian Police Service officer, and Nishith Ghosh a sweetshop owner and sweetmaker. Nishith and Ushoshi get married under strained circumstances. Ushoshi struggles with her strict mother-in-law who does not accept that her daughter-in-law could become a police officer. The story shows how Ushoshi's husband becomes her strength and helps her to fulfil her dreams.

Poker Night, released in the UK as The Joker, is a 2014 crime thriller film that was written and directed by Greg Francis. The film was released to video on demand on 5 December 2014 and had a limited theatrical release on 20 December. Filmed in British Columbia, Poker Night centers upon a rookie detective that decides to attend an annual poker night held by veteran police officers, where each one details how they captured a murder suspect.

Nintendo Force, or NF Magazine, is a bi-monthly magazine that centers upon various Nintendo hardware products. In December 2012, IGN editor and magazine founder Lucas M. Thomas announced his intention to release the magazine, stating that he had begun to plan for the magazine upon hearing of Nintendo Power's cancellation. The magazine includes staff members from Destructoid, GoNintendo, IGN, Nintendojo, 1UP.com, and the writer and founder of the online comic Brawl in the Family, and Nintendo World Report, among others.

"Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" (also known as "Melvins") is the eighth episode of the third season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 39th episode of the series overall. The episode is the second part of The Meteor Shower Trilogy, and centers upon third grader Stan Marsh and his father Randy. It premiered on Comedy Central on July 21, 1999. The episode was written by series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and David Goodman.

The plot of Brandon Thomas's 1892 farce play Charley's Aunt revolves around the need for a chaperone. E. M. Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View features a character, Charlotte Bartlett, who functions as a chaperone for her younger cousin Lucy Honeychurch. The 2006 musical spoof The Drowsy Chaperone centers upon an unnamed, alcoholic chaperone to the bride-to-be, Janet Van de Graaff. Cosmo Kramer acts as a chaperone for Jerry Seinfeld and Miss Rhode Island in an episode of Seinfeld.

The St. Francisville Experiment is a 2000 low-budget found footage horror film directed by Ted Nicolaou. The film was released direct to VHS, and DVD on April 15, 2000, and centers upon a small group of paranormal investigators who spend a night in an old haunted mansion located in St. Francisville, Louisiana. The haunted mansion's back story was loosely based upon the true story of Delphine LaLaurie, a New Orleans socialite believed to have tortured and perhaps killed slaves in the early 1800s.

"Basic Cable" is the ninth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series South Park. The 306th episode overall of the series, it premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on December 4, 2019. The episode centers upon the character Scott Malkinson, and features an opening title sequence for that purpose. In the story, Scott's efforts to court a new classmate hinge upon his ability to acquire access to streaming media, which his father, a lazy cable company technician, detests.

Fantasy Life is a role-playing life simulation game, in which players can choose from any of the twelve jobs known as "life classes". Gameplay centers upon the player taking on various tasks given to them and choosing one of twelve Life classes. Upon achieving various goals such as completing tasks in the game, buying a new house, or decorating said house, players will gain "Bliss points" that will unlock additional features like larger storage, or the ability to expand your home. Players are able to customize several aspects of their character.

The movie centers upon the brother and sister pair Tony and Tia, whose surname they initially know only as that of their deceased adoptive parents, Malone. The children are placed in an orphanage, where they face difficulties stemming from their strange psychic/psionic abilities: Tony can psychokinetically move and control inanimate objects with the aid of his harmonica, while Tia can communicate telepathically to Tony, commune empathically with animals, and experience premonitions. Tia also possesses minor telekinetic abilities. She carries a "star case" with her at all times, which eventually reveals a strange map.

Before making her plea, Suleman had been facing four felony charges, including perjury and welfare fraud, in the case. In 2012 Suleman starred in the film 666 the Devil's Child, a low-budget horror film that centers upon a couple that visits a woman they met on the Internet, only for strange things to occur. Suleman portrays the character Vanessa, a film student. In 2017, Suleman was interviewed for the Bravo network program Andy Cohen's Then & Now. In March 2019, the Australian current affairs program Sunday Night interviewed Suleman for the octoplets’ tenth birthday.

She has been active in literary circles since the late Soviet era, when she was among those invited to present work in poetry readings during perestroika, and has written short fiction in addition to poetry. She was described as a supporter of the regime of Saparmurat Niyazov while he was alive, and at least one of her short stories centers upon an incident in the life of his mother, Gurbansoltan Eje, whose story was central to his personality cult. Patriotism and love of country are among the themes touched upon in her verse.

Yandere Simulator is an upcoming stealth action video game in development by Californian game developer YandereDev. The game centers upon an obsessively lovesick schoolgirl named Ayano Aishi, nicknamed and known mainly as "Yandere- chan", after the Japanese term "yandere", who has taken it upon herself to eliminate anyone she believes is monopolizing her senpai's attention. Over the course of ten weeks, Ayano will eliminate ten different rivals in order to ensure that her crush will not fall in love with the other girls. A free demo was released on August 31, 2020.

Casanova is an American creator-owned comic book series by writer Matt Fraction and artists Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon. It was first published by Image Comics and premiered in June 2006 in the Slimline format of 16 pages of story per issue, sold at the reduced price of $1.99. Beginning in 2011, it was published by Marvel Comics' Icon imprint, and in 2014 the series moved back to Image. The series centers upon renowned thief Casanova Quinn, who gets "blackmailed into being a pawn and double agent in a global game of super- espionage".

The coalition's advocacy centers upon its Reject the Debt candidate pledge and its voter pledge. The candidate pledge states: > I pledge to the citizens of my state and to the American people that, except > when related to a congressional authorization of force, I will: > > One, consider all spending open for reduction and vote only for budgets > that present a path to balance; and > > Two, vote against any appropriations bill that increases total spending and > against the authorization or funding of new programs without offsetting cuts > in other programs.

The Rising is the twelfth studio album by American recording artist Bruce Springsteen, released on July 30, 2002 on Columbia Records. In addition to being Springsteen's first studio album in seven years, it was also his first with the E Street Band in 18 years. Based in large part on Springsteen's reflections during the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the album predominantly centers upon themes of relationship struggles, existential crisis and social uplift. Upon its release, The Rising was a critical and commercial success, being hailed as the triumphant return for Springsteen.

The film centers upon a Finnish businessman named Kari and his two daughters. The trio has gone to Brazil, where he decides to investigate the possibility of starting a gold mining operation in the nearby rainforest, urged on Dan, an American expatriate interested in entering a business arrangement with Kari. He's warned against this by a local woman, Paola, who tells him that mining would have disastrous repercussions on the jungle and its inhabitants. The two begin to fall in love and Kari starts to doubt his plans.

"Obama Wins!" is the fourteenth and final episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated sitcom South Park, and the 237th episode of the series overall. It premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on November 7, 2012. The episode centers upon a secret that Eric Cartman is harboring that may alter the outcome of the 2012 U.S. Presidential election, and also references the erstwhile recent sale of Lucasfilm to The Walt Disney Company, and the narration work of Morgan Freeman, a parodied version of whom appears in the story.

Short Circuit is a 1986 American comic science fiction film directed by John Badham and written by S. S. Wilson and Brent Maddock. The film's plot centers upon an experimental military robot that is struck by lightning and gains a human-like intelligence, with which it embarks to explore. Short Circuit stars Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton and G. W. Bailey, with Tim Blaney as the voice of the robot named "Number 5". A sequel, Short Circuit 2, was released in 1988, directed by Kenneth Johnson, but did not do as well at the box office.

Vacancies are efficiently trapped by the A, B and C nitrogen centers. The trapping rate is the highest for the C centers, 8 times lower for the A centers and 30 times lower for the B centers. The C center (single nitrogen) by trapping a vacancy forms the famous nitrogen-vacancy center, which can be neutral or negatively charged; the negatively charged state has potential applications in quantum computing. A and B centers upon trapping a vacancy create corresponding 2N-V (H3 and H2 centers, where H2 is simply a negatively charged H3 center) and the neutral 4N-2V (H4 center).

The third entry in the series, Bridge from No Place, narrated by Rod Steiger, was released in 1971 and centers upon the experience of drug culture. Addicts, including Vietnam War soldiers describe what it feels like to be addicted and treatment options are discussed.The Distant Drummer Bridge from No Place at U.S. National Library of Medicine The fourth Distant Drummer film, Flowers of Darkness concerns the dangers associated with heroin sale and addiction. A visit is paid to the California-based drug treatment program Synanon, while drug enforcement agents, along with police officers, describe the crime brought on by drugs.

In Chile, medical education begins after graduating high-school, in public or private universities, which select candidates based on a national entrance exams (former University Selection Test, now in transition to a new selection test). Public universities and private universities cost around US$8,000 - US$12,000 a year. In almost every university the career lasts for 7 years, the first two being basic sciences, then three years of preclinical studies, and ending with two years of supervised clinical practice (internship, or “internado”) both at hospitals and ambulatory centers. Upon graduation, students obtain the professional title "Médico Cirujano", equivalent to Doctor of Medicine (MD).

To keep the unneeded fifteen Army Reserve divisions active, they were to be reorganized as training divisions to staff training centers upon mobilization or man maneuver area commands for training troops. The continental army commanders implemented the new Army Reserve troop basis in 1955 piecemeal. They reorganized, without approved tables of organization, the 70th, 76th, 78th, 80th, 84th, 85th, 89th, 91st, 95th, 98th, 100th, and 108th Infantry Divisions as cadre for replacement training centers and organized the 75th "Maneuver Area Command" using the resources of the 75th Infantry Division. Two years later the 75th Infantry Division was inactivated along with 87th Infantry Division.

This is a list of episodes from the second season of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; the series' on-screen title was shortened to Dobie Gillis starting with this season. The first half of the season explores Dobie Gillis' life as a senior at Central High School. Over the course of episodes 18 through 22, Dobie and his best friend Maynard G. Krebs graduate and enlist in the US Army. The rest of the season primarily centers upon Dobie and Maynard's misadventures in basic training, with a handful of episodes featuring the characters back in their Central City hometown while on leave.

The film is composed of two stories, "Food For ?" and "The Brothers", both of which are narrated by a mother (Shirley L. Jones) reading the tales to her deceased son Bobby. "Food For ?" centers upon a family that is so poor that they are unable to afford food for every family member. Their only solution is to get rid of some of their family in order to increase the amount of supper for everyone else. "The Brother" follows two brothers who have hated each other their entire lives and have each made cruel jokes and attacks against the other.

Brad and Janet, seated in the audience, are chosen to participate in the game show Marriage Maze by the kooky, supposedly blind host Bert Schnick (Barry Humphries). As a "prize", Brad is imprisoned on Dentonvale, a soap opera that centers upon the local mental hospital run by brother and sister Cosmo and Nation McKinley (Richard O'Brien and Patricia Quinn). Janet is given a taste of showbiz as Farley molds her into a singing diva superstar in an attempt to take her away from Brad. Her compliance is assured through the use of drugs supplied by the McKinleys.

Pillywags' Mansion uses puppetry and centers upon a fictional variety show within the series, titled The Pillywags Show. The titular Master Pillywags hosts the variety show in his basement, with the help of his servants, Screen (a projection screen with eyes and a mouth) and Greg (a goblinesque creature). In the pilot, Pillywags interviews a pair of inanimate dolls propped up on a shelf before performing a song about love. He then invites a guest onto the set, his neighbor Professor Steve, who has been captured by Pillywags pet monster and is enclosed in its mouth.

The book centers upon the life of Otto, the son of German warlord Baron Conrad. Otto's mother, Baroness Matilda, has died in premature labour, brought on by the sight of the Baron's battle wounds, prompting Conrad to take his newborn son to be raised in a nearby monastery. When Otto reaches the age of eleven his father returns to claim him from the gentle monks, taking him back to live in Castle Drachenhausen, ("Dragons' House", in German) the ancestral mountaintop fortress from which the Baron launches his attacks. Here Otto learns of and is horrified by his father's life as a robber baron.

The Flight of Dragons is a 1982 animated fantasy film produced and directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. loosely combining the speculative natural history book of the same name (1979) by Peter Dickinson with the novel The Dragon and the George (1976) by Gordon R. Dickson. It stars the voices of John Ritter, Victor Buono, James Gregory, James Earl Jones, and Harry Morgan. The film centers upon a quest undertaken to stop an evil wizard who plans to rule the world by dark magic. A major theme within the story is the question of whether science and magic can co-exist.

"Tegridy Farms Halloween Special" is the fifth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series South Park. The 302nd episode overall of the series, it premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on October 30, 2019. The episode centers upon marijuana farmer Randy Marsh's attempts to address his daughter Shelly's "marijuana problem," which is tied into the issue of Randy's relationship with the Chinese government, a recurring storyline during the season. A subplot concerns a surprise that awaits Butters Stotch after his visit to an exhibit of Egyptian artifacts at a Denver Museum.

In order to create an everyday setting and tone, Vaughan included various references to current popular culture, including television series, films, events and celebrities. The story arc's primary purpose was to introduce the main characters, six children who discover their parents are evil after seeing them murder a girl in a sacrificial ceremony. It centers upon the children's relationships with their parents as the children learn that they themselves have inherited their parents' powers. Once The Pride realizes their offspring have disappeared, they begin to use their considerable influence to track down their sons and daughters.

"The Hobbit" is the tenth and final episode in the seventeenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 247th episode of the series overall, it premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on December 11, 2013. The story centers upon Wendy Testaburger's attempts to raise awareness of media impact on body image, which leads to a crusade by rapper Kanye West to convince the world that his then-fiancée, Kim Kardashian, is not a hobbit. The episode received largely positive reviews from critics, who praised Wendy's story arc and the return of West.

Narbonic is drawn entirely by hand and presented in the style of the traditional American four-panel newspaper strip. It centers upon the adventures of computer programmer Dave Davenport, superintelligent gerbil RT-5478 (or "Artie"), evil intern Mell W. Kelly, and mad geneticist Helen Beta Narbon. While the strip is essentially an ensemble piece, with storylines focusing on major and minor characters alike, Dave occupies the role of protagonist more often than any other character. As one of the few characters with a semblance of normality, the blandly cynical Dave Davenport has traditionally provided a convenient source of identification and emotional connection for the audience.

The 1920 German horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari centers upon a series of murders committed by a somnambulist under control of the eponymous Dr. Caligari. The 1932 American gentlemen jewel thief romantic heist comedy Arsene Lupin features numerous depictions of somnambulism, specifically sleepwalking both real and faked by various characters. The 1971 Italian thriller A Lizard in a Woman's Skin involves a woman who thinks she may have murdered a neighbor in her sleep. The 1997 TV movie The Sleepwalker Killing depicts a story in which a man kills his mother-in-law and wounds his father-in-law in the middle of the night, then turns himself in.

The book centers upon the personal lives of the wives of the Mercury Seven astronauts who piloted the six manned space flights of Project Mercury between May 1961 and May 1963. The women were frequently the focus of public attention and also came into contact with influential people such as Jackie Kennedy. This rise to celebrity status would take its toll on these women and they ended up turning to each other for solace, calling themselves the Astronaut Wives Club. As a result, they formed the Astronaut Wives Club and met regularly to discuss their daily lives and various issues that only the others would truly understand.

She founded the Libi BaMizrach (My Heart is in the East) festival of Mizrahi culture, and runs various other initiatives aimed at connecting between women from different oppressed communities, and providing them with the means for empowerment and relief – social, political, and legal. Keshet's artwork centers upon her identity as a Mizrahi-feminist, and in her work as a curator and producer she brings together women of Arab ethnicity (whether Jewish, Muslim or Christian) and helps them tell their stories. In May 2018, Keshet was elected the chair of the neighborhood committee of Neve Sha'anan, and in November 2018 she was elected to the Tel Aviv city council.

New York: New York University Press, 2013. Print. His argument also centers upon unity's promotion of executive energy. In Federalist No. 70, Alexander Hamilton writes: > Those politicians and statesmen who have been the most celebrated for the > soundness of their principles and for the justice of their views, have > declared in favor of a single Executive....They have with great propriety, > considered energy as the most necessary qualification (of the former) and > have regarded this as most applicable to power in a single hand... According to Hamilton, unity contributes to energy by permitting necessary "decision, activity, secrecy, and dispatch" in the executive branch. At the same time, a unitary executive is incentivized to act on behalf of his constituents.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, often shortened to Buckaroo Banzai, is a 1984 American science fiction film produced and directed by W. D. Richter and written by Earl Mac Rauch. It stars Peter Weller in the titular role, with Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, and Christopher Lloyd. The supporting cast includes Lewis Smith, Rosalind Cash, Clancy Brown, Pepe Serna, Robert Ito, Vincent Schiavelli, Dan Hedaya, Jonathan Banks, John Ashton, and Ronald Lacey. The premise centers upon the efforts of the polymath Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, a physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and rock star, to save the world by defeating a band of inter-dimensional aliens called Red Lectroids from Planet 10.

The story takes place in the fictional town of Point Bless, Virginia during the fall and winter of 1995. It centers upon two characters, a 23-year-old European young man referred to only as "A." and a 16-year-old mute Irish girl named Niamh, who have traveled to Point Bless upon inheriting a rumoredly haunted mansion from Ambrose Wells, a distant cousin of A., who died in the house after throwing himself out of a third story window. Soon after they move in the two begin to experience paranormal phenomena, while their research on the deceased relative's life hints to a secret society that would hold a yearly gathering at Wells' home.

Following the effects of the Great Depression, the project was shelved and adapted by Wright for the Price Company in 1952. Wright, therefore, plucked his "tree" out of the "crowded forest" of Manhattan skyscrapers and placed it on the Oklahoma prairie where it continues to stand uncrowded by neighboring tall buildings. The floorplan of the Price Tower centers upon an inlaid cast bronze plaque, bearing the logo of the Price Company and marking the origin of a parallelogram grid upon which all exterior walls, interior partitions and doors, and built-in furniture are placed. The resulting design is a quadrant plan—one quadrant dedicated for double-height apartments, and three for offices.

Sadik 2 is a 2013 French horror film that was directed by Robin Entreinger. The film had its world premiere on 23 August 2013 at the London FrightFest Film Festival and centers upon a group of friends that finds themselves hunted by a sadistic killer. The film's title implies that it is the second film in a series but is actually the first film, as Entreinger thought that it would be interesting to film a "sequel" before creating the first film. Sadik 2 references the fictional first film by having the characters reference it by commenting that Sadik became popular due to rumors that it was a snuff film, as all of the actors were genuinely murdered on camera.

Cartography from Google Maps On its course through Park Slope, Fourth Avenue is home to several condominiums and homes but is dominated by service stations and automotive repair centers. Upon entering Sunset Park, Fourth Avenue passes under the Prospect Expressway (NY 27) and offers indirect access to it through local side streets. The avenue continues to serve the automotive trade as far as the street numbered in the low 40s, where it becomes flanked by large wall-to-wall apartment buildings. After crossing under the Gowanus Expressway viaduct into Bay Ridge, the arterial boulevard gives way to a four- lane street bordered by four- to five- story apartment buildings until it reaches Shore Road and the Belt Parkway under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.

The novel centers upon the Ogata family of Kamakura, and its events are witnessed from the perspective of its aging patriarch, Shingo, a businessman close to retirement who works in Tokyo. Shingo is experiencing temporary lapses of memory, recalling strange and disturbing dreams upon waking, and hearing sounds, including the titular noise which awakens him from his sleep, "like wind, far away, but with a depth like a rumbling of the earth." Shingo takes the sound to be an omen of his impending death. Shingo observes and questions his relations with his family members, his wife Yasuko, his philandering son Shuichi, his daughter-in-law Kikuko, and his married daughter Fusako, who has left her husband and returned to her family home with her two young daughters.

"Titties and Dragons" is the ninth episode in the seventeenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 246th episode of the series overall, it premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on December 4, 2013. It is the conclusion of a three-episode story arc that began with "Black Friday", and continued with "A Song of Ass and Fire". The story centers upon the children of South Park, role-playing as characters from Game of Thrones, split into two factions over whether to collectively purchase bargain-priced Xbox One or PlayStation 4 video game consoles at an upcoming Black Friday sale at the local mall, where Randy Marsh has been made the Captain of mall security.

The film centers upon a nameless student (Pit Bukowski) who has rented a room at a lake-side home with the expectation that he will find peace and quiet. However, when he arrives, he finds that the room was far from what he was expecting, as the home is actually a bunker, but he chooses to stay despite this. Soon after, his bizarre landlords (Oona von Maydell and David Scheller) begin to insist that he tutor their son Klaus (Daniel Fripan), who they believe will become President of the United States, despite being born in Germany. Stranger still is their insistence that an alien lives within the mother's leg and that Klaus is only 8 years old, despite looking far older.

A black liquid called the "filth" bubbles up from beneath the mountain, rapidly corrupting the minds and bodies of all creatures who contact it and gradually revealed to consist of the dreams of old gods. The player's investigation centers upon a man calling himself Beaumont who is working with the world's most popular New Age cult, Morninglight, actually bent on feeding the world to eldritch beings. Also present on the island are the Order of Phoenician Sailors, a resentful global pirate/mercenary army, and the in-house soldiers and scientists of Orochi, the world's largest tech conglomerate. The player gradually discovers the legendary identities of both Beaumont and of a sword which, brought by fishermen to the island, initiated the horrors there.

The problem of identity centers upon whether bisexuals build an identity around their bisexuality, what being a bisexual means socially, and how it relates to other identities such as feminism. One debate is whether or not it is valuable to establish bisexuality as a sexual identity. As author Jennifer Baumgardner writes: > It is feminist to understand bisexuality as its own identity too, because > it's a chapter of women's history that has been repressed and misunderstood, > and one that has contributed substantially to current ideas about queerness However, the author recognizes that there are also political limitations to identifying as bisexual, saying that: > The thing about being bisexual is that you don't really have to be out in > the same ways. You can often pass for straight.

The game's story centers upon a young businesswoman that has spent most of her life working and as such, has no significant other and low prospects to find one. She decides to leave her job and visit a racing horse ranch, with the assumption that it would be full of handsome young men. When she arrives she is dismayed to find it bereft of potential dating candidates and is shocked to discover a horse named Yuuma with an attractive human face. She questions the ranch owner about this and is told that Yuuma is a normal horse, she just sees a human face because some women born in the year of the horse have the ability to see horses as attractive men.

Global Relay's strategy for the future centers upon its transition from offering only back office tools (such as message archiving) to also providing front office communication services. Global Relay Message is the company's cloud-based enterprise platform for instant messaging and collaboration, designed to meet the regulatory requirements of the finance industry. Global Relay is also in the process of developing the next generation of its core archiving product, which will provide increased scalability and the capacity to process and index the messaging data of companies with hundreds of thousands of users. An additional key component of Global Relay's competitive strategy is the construction of its own data centers, allowing Global Relay to own and fully control all components of its technology stack, including software, workstations, servers, data centers, and property.

The show centers upon Karan and Kabir, twin brothers who live in Raj Mahal Hotel (Parody of Hotel Taj) in Mumbai with their mother, Preeti Jaiswal, the assistant manager in the hotel, and talented singer. Similar to its parent series, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, the series shows the antics and mischief the boys are constantly up to, as well as the adventures of Rani Oberoi, the privileged and ditzy heir of the Oberoi business, Vineeta or Vinnie, the candy-counter girl, and Mr. Maan Singh, the strict and dutiful manager, who often acts as a foil to Karan and Kabir's schemes. The lazy housekeeper Shobha ji, the innocent bellboy Jang Bahadur, and the electrician "Digital" appear as supporting characters, along with the boys' friends Max and Noodle.

The book's plot predominantly centers upon Carolyn Lessing, a beautiful young teenager that has moved to Adamsville, Alabama and has recently begun attending the local high school. She's initially met with a largely positive reception from the student body, as they're both awed and envious of her, and she soon begins dating Shane, one of the most popular guys at school. However even as they praise her, Carolyn is still an outsider and is more treasured for what she represents (wealth, glamour, talent, fame) than for herself as a person - something that becomes more readily apparent when her relationship with Shane brings about the wrath of one of the school's mean girls. As time progresses her peers begin to bully Carolyn, first slowly and then with more emphasis.

The adventure itself takes place centuries after these events, and centers upon the efforts of the player characters to help a young Barovian woman, Ireena Kolyana, escape the dreadful fate of so many others on whom "the devil Strahd" has cast his eye over the generations. The setting includes not only castle Ravenloft itself, but also the nearby village of Barovia, and a camp of gypsies led by one Madame Eva, who had formed a kind of alliance with the vampire. Through the course of the adventure, players have the opportunity to learn Strahd's backstory and discover that Ireena is herself the reincarnation of Tatyana. Strahd von Zarovich himself is noted as being the first truly well-developed villain to appear in the AD&D; game system, being fully capable of changing the course of events to suit his own evil ends.

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Mauritius in March 2020. Since the first three cases of COVID-19 were confirmed, the Mauritian authorities have been conducting 'Contact tracing': people who have been in contact with infected patients have been placed under quarantine, including doctors, nurses and police officers. No cases have been reported in Rodrigues, Agaléga and St. Brandon. Mauritius scored 100 in the Oxford University COVID-19 government response tracker. No new cases through local transmission has been detected in Mauritius since 26 April 2020, since then, all the new cases which were reported on the island were imported cases from passengers who were repatriated to Mauritius and were admitted to quarantine centers upon their arrival. On 29 May 2020, the Mauritian government announced the end of lockdown as from 30 May 2020 at 00.00.

In the preface for the original version Maykov wrote: "The play centers upon the three different views upon the meaning of life, belonging to the people of the [doomed] ancient world... My objective was to represent the general character of this particular epoch, and create human characters... I might have been negligent in terms of factual correctness, but those looking for strict history should apply for Tacitus, not my play, for the latter is but a poetic representation of the spirit of the epoch." The drama was finished in 1851. Its first version, titled "Choice of Death", was much more radical than the final one, which was published in 1893. At the time it could be neither published nor produced by the Imperial Theatres, and circulated in hand-written versions, praised by many as a strong artistic statement for individual freedoms in general and freedom of speech in particular.

ROCAF AIDC F-CK Indigenous Defense Fighter ROCN Cheng Kung-class frigate ROCA Thunderbolt-2000 The primary goal of the ROC Armed Forces is to provide a credible deterrent against hostile action by establishing effective counterstrike and defense capabilities. Should hostilities occur, current ROC military doctrine centers upon the principle of "offshore engagement" where the primary goal of the armed forces in any conflict with the PRC would be to keep as much of the fighting away from Taiwan proper for as long as possible to minimize damage to infrastructure and civilian casualties. The military has also begun to take the threat of a sudden "decapitation attack" by the PRC seriously. Consequently, these developments have seen a growing emphasis on the role of the Navy and Air Force (where the Army had traditionally dominated); as well as the development of rapid reaction forces and quick mobilization of local reserve forces.

The Philippine National Broadband Network controversy is a political affair that centers upon allegations of corruption primarily involving Former Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman Benjamin Abalos, First Gentleman Mike Arroyo and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo regarding the proposed government-managed National Broadband Network (NBN) for the Philippines and the awarding of its construction to the Chinese firm Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Company Limited (ZTE), a telecommunications and networking equipment provider. The issue has captivated Filipino politics since it erupted in Philippine media around August 2007, largely through the articles of newspaper columnist Jarius Bondoc of the Philippine Star. It has also taken an interesting turn of events, including the resignation of Abalos as COMELEC chairman, the alleged bribery of congressmen and provincial governors (dubbed as "Bribery in the Palace"), the unseating of Jose de Venecia, Jr. as House Speaker, and the alleged "kidnapping" of designated National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) consultant-turned-NBN/ZTE witness Rodolfo Noel "Jun" Lozada, Jr.

The primary claim of feminists is that social science in general and criminology in particular represents a male perspective upon the world in that it focuses largely upon the crimes of men against men. Moreover, arguably the most significant criminological fact of all, namely that women commit significantly less crime than men, is hardly engaged with either descriptively or explanatory in the literature. In other words, it is assumed that explanatory models developed to explain male crime are taken to be generalizable to women in the face of the extraordinary evidence to the contrary. The conclusion that must be drawn is that not only can those theories not be generalized to women, but that that failure might suggest they may not explain adequately male crime either (Edwards 1989, Messerschmidt 1993, Caulfield and Wonders 1994) A second aspect of feminist critique centers upon the notion that even where women have become criminologists, they have adopted 'malestream' modes of research and understanding, that is they have joined and been assimilated into the modes of working of the masculine paradigm, rendering it simultaneously gender blind and biased (Menzies & Chunn 1991).