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Act
Act or ACT may refer to: Arts and entertainment * A.C.T, a Swedish band * Act (band), a British band * Act (drama), a segment of a play or opera * ACT Music, a German music label * ACT Theatre, in Seattle, Washington, US * Acting, theatrical performance * ''Acts'', a 2012 album by American band RNDM * American Conservatory Theater, in San Francisco, California, US Business organizations * AdaCore, formerly Ada Core Technologies, Ada specialist software company * Advanced Cell Technology, stem cell company * Advanced Computer Techniques, a U.S. software company 1962–1994 * Applied Computer Techniques, later Apricot Computers, UK * Atria Convergence Technologies, a telecommunications company in India * Aviation Composite Technology, an aircraft manufacturer in the Philippines Education * ACT (nonprofit organization), provides assessments etc. for US school students etc. ** ACT (test), for college admission, US * Asian College of Technology, Cebu City, Philippines * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian College Of Theology
The Australian College of Theology (ACT) is an Australian higher education provider based in Sydney, New South Wales. The college delivers awards in ministry and theology and was one of the first Australian non-university providers to offer an accredited bachelor's degree and a research doctorate. Over 22,000 people have graduated since the foundation of the college. It is a company limited by guarantee as of September 2007. On 7 October 2022 it was granted university college status by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency. The primate of the Anglican Church of Australia presides as chairman at a general meeting of the Australian College of Theology Limited. The current chair of the board is Roger Lewis. The current dean is James Dalziel, while the deputy dean is Edwina Murphy. History The college was established by the 1891 General Synod of the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania. The college was founded in order to provide for the "systematic study of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ACT (nonprofit Organization)
ACT, Inc. is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities, NTEE classification ''B90, Educational Services'', per the Internal Revenue Service, IRS), primarily known for the ACT (test), ACT, a standardized test designed to assess high school students' academic Achievement test, achievement and college readiness. For the U.S. high school graduating class of 2019, 52 percent of graduates had taken the ACT test; the more than 1.78 million students included virtually all high school graduates in 17 states. Founded in Iowa City, Iowa, in 1959, the organization has more than 1,000 employees. Its Interim CEO is Janet Godwin, who assumed leadership of ACT in 2020. Previous CEOs include Marten Roorda (2015–2020), Jon Whitmore (2010–2015), Richard L. Ferguson, (1988–2010), and Oluf Davidsen (1974–1988). In addition to the ACT test, ACT programs include ACT Academy, ACT Aspire, ACT CollegeReady, ACT Online Prep, Mawi Learning, ScootPad, PreACT a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Air Resources Board
The California Air Resources Board (CARB or ARB) is the "clean air agency" of the government of California. Established in 1967 when then-governor Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford-Carrell Act, combining the Bureau of Air Sanitation and the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board, CARB is a department within the cabinet (government), cabinet-level California Environmental Protection Agency. The stated goals of CARB include attaining and maintaining healthy air quality; protecting the public from exposure to toxic air contaminants; and providing innovative approaches for complying with air pollution rules and regulations. CARB has also been instrumental in driving innovation throughout the global automotive industry through programs such as its ZEV mandate. One of CARB's responsibilities is to define United States emission standards, vehicle emissions standards. California is the only state permitted to issue emissions standards under the federal Clean Air Act (United States), Clean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Act (band)
Act were a short-lived synth-pop group signed to ZTT Records in the late 1980s, and comprising Scottish musician Thomas Leer and German ex-Propaganda vocalist Claudia Brücken. Besides synthpop and disco, the group were also influenced by psychedelic rock and musical theatre. Lyrically, their songs tended to be concerned with decadence and moral bankruptcy. The band dissolved shortly after the release of their first album ''Laughter, Tears and Rage'' in 1988. Discography All albums and singles were released by ZTT Records. Albums *''Laughter, Tears and Rage'' (1988, reissued in 2004 as CD and a 3CD box set) *''Act - Love & Hate: A Compact Introduction'' (2015, a retrospective 2-CD 30-track album) Singles * " Snobbery and Decay" (1987) UK No. 60, Italy No. 38 * "Absolutely Immune" (1987) * "Chance" (1988) (single withdrawn prior to release, due to copyright issues surrounding an ABBA sample Sample or samples may refer to: Base meaning * Sample (statistics), a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance For Change And Transparency
The Alliance for Change and Transparency (), sometimes known as the ACT–Wazalendo, is the third-largest political party in Tanzania. It received its permanent registration in May 2014. Background The party was founded in 2014. The party fielded its first presidential candidate in the 2015 general election with Anna Mghwira and won 1 seat in the national assembly. Prominent members of the party are MP Zitto Kabwe, Seif Sharif Hamad, Bernard Membe, Juma Duni Haji, Ismail Jussa, Selemani Bungara, Zahra Ali Hamad, Subeti Khamis Faki, Saleh Nassor Juma, Omar Ali Shehe, Haji Mwadini Makame, Asha Abdu Haji, Nassor Mazrui, Juma Kombo Hamad, Masoud Salim, Ally Saleh, Ali Salim Khamis, Hamadi Maalim, Khalifa Mohammed Issa, Mohamed Juma Khatib, Twahir Awesu Mohammed, Khatib Haji, Haji Kai, Othman Omar Haji, Nassor Omar, Yussuf Salimu Hussein, Abdalla Ali, Yussuf Khamis, Mgeni Jadi Kadika and Abubakar Khamis Bakary. Zitto who formally joined the party in March 2015 following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advanced Concepts Team
The Advanced Concepts Team is a group of scientists, researchers and young graduates that perform multidisciplinary research within the European Space Agency. Located at the European Space Research and Technology Centre, in the Netherlands, the team was instituted in 2002 with the objective of ''fostering advanced research on space systems, innovative concepts and working methods''. It serves the function of a think tank providing decision makers the support of a highly multidisciplinary research group. Science and engineering research fellows (PhDs working at the European Space Agency for 2 years), Young Graduate Trainee and interns form the bulk of the Team. They carry out research work on advanced topics and emerging technologies and perform highly skilled analysis on a wide range of topics. __TOC__ Introduction The Advanced Concepts Team (ACT) is a multidisciplinary research group at the European Space Agency. Its task is to facilitate disruptive changes in space techn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agir (France)
Agir, officially Agir, la droite constructive (; ), was a political party in France, established on 26 November 2017. The majority of its founding members were previously associated with the Constructive faction within the centre-right Republicans. Styling itself as a "liberal, social, European, humanist and reformist" party, Agir was founded by a group of 19 established politicians as an alternative to the Republicans. The party merged with Renaissance in 2022. Agir Members of Parliament (MPs) were members of the Agir ensemble parliamentary group in the National Assembly. Fabienne Keller was the party's only Member of the European Parliament (MEP). History Formation Following the defeat of Les Républicains candidate François Fillon in the first round of the 2017 French presidential election and the ascension of Laurent Wauquiez, perceived as coming from the right wing of Les Républicains, to the leadership of the party, 19 politicians from LR and the center-right Union of Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action For Children's Television
Action for Children's Television (ACT) was founded by Peggy Charren, Lillian Ambrosino, Evelyn Kaye Sarson and Judy Chalfen in Newton, Massachusetts, USA, in 1968 as a grassroots, nonprofit child advocacy group dedicated to improving the quality of television programming offered to children.- Specifically, ACT's main goals were to encourage diversification in children's television offerings, to discourage overcommercialization of children's programming, and to eliminate deceptive advertising aimed at young viewers. ACT had up to 20,000 volunteer members, eight staff members, and an operational budget of $225,000 by the mid-1980s, but declined financially and to four staff members before disbanding in 1992.Loree Gerdes Bykerk & Ardith Maney, ''U.S. Consumer Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles'' (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995), 2–3. About 70% of funds came from the group's membership, while the rest came from foundation grants (e.g. Markle Foundation) and fees from lectures a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ACT! For America
ACT for America, founded in 2007, is a U.S.-based anti-Muslim advocacy group that opposes what it calls "the threat of radical Islam" to Americans. Critics of the group, including the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for American Progress, describe it as a hate group. It has been called the U.S.'s largest anti-Muslim organization. Since 2017, the group has organized rallies in support of Donald Trump. Activities and views The group's founder and central figure is the Lebanese-American conservative activist Brigitte Gabriel, a Maronite Catholic. Guy Rodgers, a Republican consultant who was National Field Director for the Christian Coalition of America in the 1990s, is executive director. The group was established in 2007, and grew out of the American Congress for Truth, which Gabriel established in 2002 to promote her beliefs, books, and public appearance. The American Congress for Truth was later renamed Act! for America Education and "continues to operate as a sepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ACT Teachers Partylist
The ACT Teachers Partylist is a political party representing teachers and education sector workers with a seat in the 15th and 16th Philippine Congress, and with two seats in the 17th Philippine Congress. It is represented in the 18th Philippine Congress by educator and trade union organizer France Castro Francisca L. Castro (born 1966) is a Filipino educator, trade union activist, and politician. She is a member of the Philippine House of Representatives under the Alliance of Concerned Teachers party-list. In Congress, she is among the principa .... ACT Teachers Partylist is part of the left-wing Makabayan Bloc, and is known for its active campaign for salary hikes for teachers, successful tax reduction initiatives, optional poll service duty for teachers, and lowering of optional retirement age of public school teachers. ACT Teachers Partylist is also an active proponent of the Supreme Court cases against the Philippine government's K to 12 system, co-filing at least tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ACT-CIS Partylist
The ACT-CIS Partylist, officially the Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support Partylist, is a political organization which has party-list representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines. They are supported primarily by radio and television broadcasters brothers Raffy Tulfo and Erwin Tulfo. In the 2019 National Elections, ACT-CIS got the most number of votes in the party-list race with 2,651,987 votes. Electoral performance Representation in the Congress *16th Congress of the Philippines ** Samuel Pagdilao Jr. *18th Congress of the Philippines ** Eric Go Yap (also ad-interim caretaker of Legislative district of Benguet) ** Jocelyn Tulfo **Rowena Niña Taduran * 19th Congress of the Philippines **Edvic G. Yap ** Jocelyn Tulfo **Jeffrey Soriano Criticism Election watchdog Kontra Daya claims that representation of marginalized groups is not a function that ACT-CIS serves given that the group’s second nominee Jocelyn Tulfo is the siste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand, known simply as ACT (), is a right-wing, classical-liberal political party in New Zealand. According to former party leader Rodney Hide, ACT's values are "individual freedom, personal responsibility, doing the best for our natural environment and for smaller, smarter government in its goals of a prosperous economy, a strong society, and a quality of life that is the envy of the world".Rodney Hide , "Speech to ACT Auckland Regional Conference, 30 July 2006" is an associated (albeit unofficial) student wing. The name is an acronym of Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, which was founded in 1993 by |
