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ACT Cancels South Korea College Exams After Testing Materials Stolen

Edit Voa News 11 Jun 2016
Operators of the ACT college entrance exam on Saturday canceled the test for all of South Korea and Hong Kong after officials confirmed that test materials had been stolen ... He said the ACT test won’t be administered again until September....

ACT exams canceled in South Korea, Hong Kong over breach

Edit Atlanta Journal 11 Jun 2016
Operators of the ACT college entrance exam on Saturday canceled the tests for students in South Korea and Hong Kong at the last moment over what they said was a verified breach of test materials ... The ACT, an Iowa-based nonprofit organization, had planned to administer the tests at 56 different locations in South Korea and Hong Kong on Saturday morning....

ACT exams cancelled in South Korea, Hong Kong over test materials leak

Edit Indian Express 11 Jun 2016
The ACT decided to cancel the test soon after it received “credible evidence” that the test materials had been leaked, Colby said ... Operators of the ACT college entrance exam on Saturday canceled the tests for students in South Korea and Hong Kong at the last moment over what they said was a verified breach of test materials....

US college entrance test halted in South Korea and Hong Kong

Edit BBC News 11 Jun 2016
Administrators of the ACT test took the decision just hours before some 5,500 students were due to sit it ... This is not the first cheating scandal to hit the tests in East Asia ... The ACT test was due to be held at 56 test centres in both South Korea and Hong ......

Al-Borg Medical Laboratories stresses health checkups during fasting month

Edit Arabnews 11 Jun 2016
Given the importance of medical tests during and after fasting in the holy month of Ramadan, people suffering from chronic diseases in particular need to take some health precautions ... “Ramadan fasting provides an ideal opportunity for lab tests and health checkups. This is because most medical tests need the patient to be fasting for a certain number of hours prescribed by a physician....

State waives consequences for 5th- and 8th-graders who fail STAAR tests

Edit The Dallas Morning News 11 Jun 2016
The Texas Education Agency announced Friday evening that it was waiving consequences related to the STAAR assessment tests for fifth- and eighth-graders because of ongoing problems with its new testing vendor.Related. Vendor reports tests from Austin district are missing, but now it says it has themEditorial ... We intend to hold the vendor, Educational Testing Service, accountable.”....

Amid mishaps, STAAR results won’t be used for 5th, 8th grader promotion

Edit Austin American Statesman 11 Jun 2016
State standardized test results will not be used to determine whether fifth- and eighth-graders are promoted to the next grade, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath told school administrators Friday ... The announcement comes in the wake of a series of mishaps by the Texas’ new testing vendor Education Testing Services ... We intend to hold the vendor, Educational Testing Service, accountable,” Morath said in a statement....

THIS 500-POUND DRONE THAT CAN CARRY YOU AROUND IS READY FOR TEST FLIGHTS (Say What? Srl)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Jun 2016
Ehang 184, the eponymous giant, 500-pound drone first introduced at CES 2016 in Las Vegas, is returning to Nevada for potential test flights, according to The Las Vegas Review Journal ... These test flights may actually apply to that test-flight time requirement ... Before Ehang and the NIAS can start conducting these test flights, however, they'll need an FAA experimental certificate to fly the drone....

Faraday Future wants to test autonomous cars in Michigan

Edit Venture Beat 11 Jun 2016
At the same time, Faraday wants to set up an outpost in Michigan to test self-driving cars. It recently applied for three manufacturer license plates, a necessary step toward testing self-driving cars on Michigan roads, according to The Detroit News ... Michigan is one of a handful of states that explicitly permits the testing of autonomous vehicles on public roads....

Alnylam Reports Initial ALN-CC5 Results in Patients with Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) from Ongoing Phase ...

Edit Stockhouse 11 Jun 2016
ALN-CC5 also demonstrated robust inhibition of complement activity as measured in complement classical pathway (CCP C5b-9 ELISA) and sheep RBC (sRBC) hemolysis assays ... of complement alternative pathway (CAP C5b-9 ELISA) and complement classical pathway (CCP C5b-9 ELISA) activity, as well as serum sheep red blood cell (sRBC) hemolytic activity....

Openers lead Sri Lanka fightback in third Test

Edit Indian Express 11 Jun 2016
Jonny Bairstow continued a brilliant year of run-scoring with a Test-best 167 not out against Sri Lanka at Lord’s on Friday. But the debate about whether Bairstow should continue to keep wicket for England intensified when he dropped a routine catch to reprieve Dimuth Karunaratne on the second day of the third Test ... miss by a Test keeper....

Bairstow highs and lows as Sri Lanka hits back

Edit Arabnews 11 Jun 2016
Jonny Bairstow continued a brilliant year of run-scoring with a Test-best 167 not out against Sri Lanka at Lord’s on Friday. But the debate about whether Bairstow should continue to keep wicket for England intensified when he dropped a routine catch to reprieve Dimuth Karunaratne on the second day of the third Test ... Woakes was the initial aggressor on Friday and a boundary off Eranga saw him to a maiden Test fifty in 102 balls....

Annual Fire Hydrant Testing 2016 (City of Galesburg, IL)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Jun 2016
The City of Galesburg Water Division in conjunction with the Galesburg Fire Department will begin the annual fire hydrant flushing and testing program on Monday, June 13, 2016. Hydrant testing will occur Monday through Friday from 8 a.m ... The first area to be tested will be the northwest quadrant of the City. Monday's testing will include West Main Street from the square west and North Linwood Road from West Main Street north....
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