The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

This coupled with voucher schools not being required to put their students through the same tests and performing poorly on SAT and ACT testing in the 11th and 12th grades has led the academic community to declare it a complete and total failure.

Allan, who has previously played four games for the Essendon Football Club in 1966 – 67, initiated the move, enabling him to be player coach of Eastlake in the Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ) football competition.

Unlike Washington, D. C. however, the ACT has voting representation in the Federal Parliament similar to the other Territories, and has their own independent Territorial Parliament and government similar to the states.

This university has increased their admissions criteria four times since 2000 by raising the minimum overall grade point average, composite ACT score, and class ranking.

According to the National Institute for Higher Education, Lonoke High School has an average ACT score of 22.

Whitefish Bay High School has the highest average ACT score out of all the public schools in the state of Wisconsin every year.

In recent years, with the changing nature of the AIDS crisis, ACT UP's membership has dwindled, though many chapters continue to meet.

" ACT New Zealand aspired to become National's centre-right coalition partner, but has been hampered by lack of party unity and populist leadership that often lacked strategic direction.

Ashbourne Churches Together ( ACT ) has a link with the Diocese of Patna in the ecumenical Church of North India.

With the formation of the 49th New Zealand Parliament after the 2008 election, it has a single member of the Parliament of New Zealand – party leader Peter Dunne, an electorate MP – and it has signed a confidence and supply agreement with the National Party, making it, along with ACT and the Maori Party, a support partner to the minority National government.

As the one of the first institutions to be established in Camberra, RMC has been integral to the life of the ACT.

The ACT ( Adaptive Control of Thought ) ( and later ACT-R ( Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational )) theory of cognition represents declarative memory ( of which semantic memory is a part ) with " chunks ", which consist of a label, a set of defined relationships to other chunks ( i. e., " this is a _ ", or " this has a _ "), and any number of chunk-specific properties.

In ACT, a chunk ’ s activation decreases as a function of the time since the chunk was created and increases with the number of times the chunk has been retrieved from memory.

When retrieving items from memory, ACT looks at the most active chunk in memory ; if it is above threshold, it is retrieved, otherwise an " error of omission " has occurred, i. e., the item has been forgotten.

* NAMI has advocated for the routine availability of evidence-based practices and promotes ACT.

ACT has agreed to pay $ 775, 000 in fines.

The ACT is unique among Australian states and territories, as it has no vice-regal post exercising authority as the representative of the Head of State, such as a Governor or an Administrator.

ACT has never won as many votes as the New Zealand Party gained in 1984.

Rugby union football has a long history in the ACT.

Toncontín has, however, been significantly improved by the work of Airport Corporation of Tegucigalpa ( ACT ) and InterAirports, a company contracted by the Honduran government to administer the country's four major airports.

Women from ACT UP who had been having informal " dyke dinners " met with Dr. Gould in person, questioned him about several misleading facts ( that penis to vagina transmission is impossible, for example ), questionable journalistic methods ( no peer review, bibliographic information, failing to disclose that he was a psychiatrist and not a practitioner of internal medicine ), and demanded a retraction and apology.

ACT UP, while extremely prolific and certainly effective at its peak, suffered from extreme internal pressures over the direction of the group and of the AIDS crisis.

The Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ) is one of two self-governing internal territories of the Australian federation, the other being the Northern Territory ( NT ).

In 1988, when the ACT gained self-government, Jervis Bay became a separate territory administered by the Australian Government Minister responsible for Territories, presently the Minister for Home Affairs ( Australia ).

He worked as a solicitor, a legal office in the ACT Administration, prior to self-government, and political advisor to Senator Amanda Vanstone.

Prior to the ACT gaining self-government in 1989, ACT and NT casual Senate vacancies were the subject of a different law: section 9 of the Senate ( Representation of Territories ) Act 1973, as amended by the Senate ( Representation of Territories ) Amendment Act 1980.

* In 1978, the Australian Capital Territory voted at a referendum on whether the ACT should be granted self-government.

* 29 November – The four acts granting the ACT self-government are given Royal Assent.

While the bulk of this land was established as a separate Jervis Bay Territory when the Australian Capital Territory was granted self-government, the portion on the Beecroft Peninsula remains part of the ACT.

In Australia's Federal Parliament, the ACT is represented by four federal members: two members of the House of Representatives ; the Division of Fraser and the Division of Canberra and is one of only two territories to be represented in the Senate, with two Senators ( the other being the Northern Territory ).

* Matt Giteau-former Australian Wallaby player, once Australia's highest ever paid domestic player of any code, played for ACT Brumbies and Western Force in Super 12 / Super 14

ACT became Australia's third provincial team in the new competition, known officially as the ACT Brumbies.

The original editorial collective included Denis Lemon ( editor ), Martin Corbett-who later was an active member of ACT UP, David Seligman, a founder member of the London Gay Switchboard collective, Ian Dunn of the Scottish Minorities Group, Glenys Parry ( national chair of CHE ), Suki J. Pitcher, and Doug Pollard, who later went on to launch the weekly gay newspaper, Gay Week ( affectionately known as Gweek ) ( he is now a presenter on Joy Melbourne 94. 9FM, Australia's first full-time GLBTI radio station, and was for a time editor of Melbourne Star, the city's fortnightly gay newspaper ).

It is named for the city of Canberra, Australia's national capital, and includes the districts of Tuggeranong, Weston Creek and Woden Valley, along with the rest of the ACT south of the Molonglo River and Lake Burley Griffin.

Each is created as part of the Constitution of Australia, or for the Supreme Courts, by the Constitution of that state or the Self Government Acts for the ACT and the Northern Territory.

Furthermore, the wording of s. 125 of the Australian Constitution suggests that the ACT must remain a territory and cannot become a state.

Unlike other self-governing Australian territories ( e. g. Norfolk Island, Northern Territory ), the ACT does not have an Administrator.

* Australia – Australia, with the exception of its capital territory ( ACT ) and the Northern Territory, does not permit the use of fireworks, except by a licensed pyrotechnician.

The Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ) does not have an Administrator.

The AIDS Survival project writes, " By the late ' 90s, ACT UP San Francisco developed a very different philosophy concerning AIDS treatment and began to align itself with groups that believe HIV does not cause AIDS and that it is the use of anti-HIV medications which make people get sick and die.

( The scale does not measure how many students passed the exams and also excludes schools with average SAT scores above 1300 or average ACT scores above 27 — these are categorized as " Public Elite " schools ).

The ACT government does not allow schools to set compulsory fees, however the College Board suggests a voluntary contribution which includes a base sum of $ 180 per year.

If the ACT is taken at one of two annual testings administered at CSULA, the applicant does not complete the writing portion.

The ACT government does not want to because it may mean Zhang would face a firing squad in China if convicted.

The Advanced Academy does not focus on a specific discipline, and therefore requires a minimum GPA, minimum SAT and ACT scores, and that its applicants be on the College Preparatory track.