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Pact
Pact, The Pact or PACT may refer to: Entertainment * The Pact (novel), ''The Pact'' (novel), by Jodi Picoult, 1998 * The Pact (2002 film), ''The Pact'' (2002 film), adaptation of Picoult's ''The Pact (novel)#Film adaptation, The Pact'' * The Pact (2003 film), ''The Pact'' (2003 film), Australian film * The Pact (2006 film), ''The Pact'' (2006 film), American documentary * The Pact (2012 film), ''The Pact'' (2012 film), American horror film * The Pact (2018 Spanish film), ''The Pact'' (2018 Spanish film), Spanish horror thriller film * The Pact (TV series), ''The Pact'' (TV series), American title for Polish series ''Pakt'' * The Pact (British TV series), ''The Pact'' (British TV series), Welsh drama series * The Pact (The Amazing World of Gumball), "The Pact" (''The Amazing World of Gumball''), a television episode * ''The Pact'', former title of 2018 American comedy film ''Blockers (film), Blockers'' * The Pact (comics), ''The Pact'' (comics), a production of Image Comics * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contract
A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties. A contract typically involves consent to transfer of goods, services, money, or promise to transfer any of those at a future date. The activities and intentions of the parties entering into a contract may be referred to as contracting. In the event of a breach of contract, the injured party may seek judicial remedies such as damages or equitable remedies such as specific performance or rescission. A binding agreement between actors in international law is known as a treaty. Contract law, the field of the law of obligations concerned with contracts, is based on the principle that agreements must be honoured. Like other areas of private law, contract law varies between jurisdictions. In general, contract law is exercised and governed either under common law jurisdictions, civil law jurisdictions, or mixed-law jurisdictions that combine elem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact (other)
Compact as used in politics may refer broadly to a pact or treaty; in more specific cases it may refer to: * Interstate compact, a type of agreement used by U.S. states * Blood compact, an ancient ritual of the Philippines * Compact government, a type of colonial rule utilized in British North America * Compact of Free Association whereby the sovereign states of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau have entered into as associated states with the United States. * Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of Plymouth Colony * United Nations Global Compact * Global Compact for Migration, a UN non-binding intergovernmental agreement Mathematics * Compact element, those elements of a partially ordered set that cannot be subsumed by a supremum of any directed set that does not already contain them * Compact operator, a linear operator that takes bounded subsets to relatively compact subsets, in functional analysis * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pact (British TV Series)
''The Pact'' is a British television drama series written and created by Pete McTighe and made and filmed in Wales. Produced by Little Door Productions, it began broadcasting on BBC One on 17 May 2021. On 6 April 2022, a second series was announced, focusing on a new cast and story, which premiered on 24 October 2022. Synopsis Series 1 Four friends, Anna, Nancy, Cat and Louie, work in a 100-year-old family brewery in mid-Wales. The owner, Louie's brother Arwel, has recently retired and has put his son, Jack, in charge. Jack is a cocaine addict and treats his staff with contempt. During the centenary party, the four abduct the drunken, stoned Jack and drive him to the woods. They photograph him in a partly undressed pose then leave. When they return to check on him, they find him dead. They make a pact not to disclose their involvement. Series 2 The second series focuses on a new cast and story. Christine, a social worker, and her children Will, Jamie and Megan are trying to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pact (2018 Spanish Film)
''The Pact'' () is a 2018 Spanish supernatural horror thriller film directed by which stars Belén Rueda, Darío Grandinetti and Mireia Oriol. Plot Desperately seeking to save the life of her ailing daughter Clara, who has just entered a coma, Mónica strikes a Faustian-like bargain that entails the prospect of beginning to kill people. Cast Production ''The Pact'', David Victori's directorial feature debut, is an Ikiru Films, 4Cats Pictures, Sony Pictures International Productions and El Pacto La Película AIE production, with the participation of TVE, TVC, Movistar+ and Vodafone and support from ICAA and ICEC. Shooting wrapped in 2017; shooting locations included Barcelona. Release Distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia, the film was theatrically released on 17 August 2018 in Spain, where it grossed €447,210 in the opening weekend, good enough for a top-4 picture in the box office. Reception Beatriz Martínez of ''Fotogramas'' scored 3 out of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parents And Abducted Children Together
Action Against Abduction, formerly known as Parents and Abducted Children Together (PACT), is an international non-profit organisation which specialises in fighting international child abduction and in helping law enforcement agencies find missing children. Establishment and overview Action Against Abduction was established as PACT by Catherine Meyer in 1999. 10 October 2007, PACT and the National Missing Persons Bureau launched Missing Children TV, a TV channel showing photographs and information on some of the 100,000 children that go missing every year. Electronics Health Media (EHM) screened the channel in various hospital waiting rooms around the country. In 2012, PACT helped produce a website called "Missingkids", allowing law enforcement to disseminate photographs and descriptions of missing children alongside details of the circumstances of their disappearance. In 2014, PACT produced the British Child Abduction Hub, an information repository allowing for information rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pact (2012 Film)
''The Pact'' is a 2012 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Nicholas McCarthy and starring Caity Lotz and Casper Van Dien. The film was made following the success of McCarthy's short film of the same name which showed at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film follows Annie, whose mother has recently died, as she tries to discover what caused her sister Nicole and her cousin Liz to disappear. Plot Nicole Barlow is finalizing preparations for her mother's funeral at her childhood home in San Pedro, California. Her sister, Annie does not want to attend, reminding Nicole of the way their mother used to treat them. Nicole tries to contact her cousin, Liz, and her daughter Eva via video call. After losing the connection, Nicole sees an open door, leading into a dark room and walks inside. Annie arrives, having been informed that Nicole is missing, and finds Nicole's phone along with a photo. That night, she awakens from a bad dream and finds a photo of two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party For Accountability, Competency And Transparency
The Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency (, abbreviated as PACT), formerly the Online Party of Canada (, abbreviated as OPC), was a Canadian website and federally registered political party founded in October 2010. The party was founded by Michael Nicula of Toronto. The party was deregistered by Elections Canada on July 31, 2016. Founding and governing principles The Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency was a non-partisan political party founded on the principles of participatory e-democracy where members voted directly on specific issues via the party website and, in return, party officials (candidates) must support the majority position on every issue, regardless of their personal position. To ensure accountability, all PACT representatives wrote up their own Promissory Letter of Resignation before being eligible to run for office. Any PACT representative who votes against the will of the majority could be asked to resign. Political platform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pact (2006 Film)
''The Pact'' is a 2006 American documentary film directed and produced by Andrea Kalin, presented by the National Black Programming Consortium, and aired on public television about three childhood friends from New Jersey who make a pact to help keep each other in school, graduate, and all successfully become doctors. The three men now appear as motivational speakers known as The Three Doctors. Summary Sampson, George, and Rameck could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. Like their peers, they came from poor, single-parent homes in urban neighborhoods where survival, not scholastic success, was the priority. When the three boys met in a magnet high school in Newark, they recognized each other as kindred sprits that wanted to overcome the incredible odds against them and reach for opportunity. They made a friendship pact, deciding together to take on the biggest challenge of their lives: attending college and then medical and dental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blockers (film)
''Blockers'' is a 2018 American sex comedy film directed by Kay Cannon in her directorial debut, and written by Brian and Jim Kehoe, and starring John Cena, Leslie Mann, and Ike Barinholtz with supporting roles by Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon, Graham Phillips, Miles Robbins, Jimmy Bellinger, Colton Dunn, Sarayu Blue, Gary Cole, Gina Gershon, June Diane Raphael, and Hannibal Buress. It tells the story of a trio of parents who try to stop their respective daughters from losing their virginity on prom night. The title of the film is a reference to the act of " cockblocking", with marketing materials displaying a rooster (also known as a cock) above the title. The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 10, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on April 6, 2018, by Universal Pictures. It grossed $94 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for its "humor and performances", as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pact (2002 Film)
Pact, The Pact or PACT may refer to: Entertainment * ''The Pact'' (novel), by Jodi Picoult, 1998 * ''The Pact'' (2002 film), adaptation of Picoult's '' The Pact'' * ''The Pact'' (2003 film), Australian film * ''The Pact'' (2006 film), American documentary * ''The Pact'' (2012 film), American horror film * ''The Pact'' (2018 Spanish film), Spanish horror thriller film * ''The Pact'' (TV series), American title for Polish series ''Pakt'' * ''The Pact'' (British TV series), Welsh drama series * "The Pact" (''The Amazing World of Gumball''), a television episode * ''The Pact'', former title of 2018 American comedy film '' Blockers'' * ''The Pact'' (comics), a production of Image Comics * '' The Pact (2002 book)'', a 2002 non-fiction book by The Three Doctors Organizations * Parents and Abducted Children Together, UK charity dealing with international child abduction * Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency, Canadian political party * Pickleball Association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pact (2002 Book)
''The Pact: Three Young Black Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream'' is a 2002 New York Times Bestselling non-fiction autobiography by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Lisa Frazier. The book was first published on May 23, 2002 through Riverhead Trade and was later republished through Prentice Hall. ''The Pact'' covers the lives of Davis, Jenkins, and Hunt, three young black men who made a pact to graduate from college and become doctors rather than to succumb to the violence in their community. In 2003 the book won a ''Books for a Better Life Award'' for "First Book", also being named one of the '' Library Journal's'' "Best Audiobooks of 2002". ''The Pact'' was later followed up with the companion books '' The Bond'' and '' We Beat the Street''. Synopsis ''The Pact'' narrates the lives of Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, and George Jenkins, three young black men that grew up in a community of violence, ignorance, and failure. The book shows their first-hand experien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puppetry Art Center Of Taipei
The Puppetry Art Center of Taipei (PACT; ) is an arts center in Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan. History In 1998, Lin Ching-fu, chairperson of the Taiyuan Arts and Culture Foundation, donated his personal collection of puppets which he had been collecting over years to Taipei City Government. The center was then planned by the Department of Cultural Affairs of the city government. The center was eventually opened on 7 August 2004. Architecture The center is divided into four areas, which are glove puppets, string puppets, shadow puppets and interactive games. Activities The center regularly holds puppet shows and educational puppetry classes, including puppet making workshop. Transportation The center is accessible within walking distance southwest of Nanjing Sanmin Station of Taipei Metro. See also * List of tourist attractions in Taiwan Popular tourist attractions in Taiwan include the following: Attractions Historical buildings * Beihai Tunnel (Beigan), Beihai Tun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
