The Integrated Science (iSci) program is an exclusive undergraduate program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, emphasizing interdisciplinary research through all facets of science. It is the only program in Canada with fully integrated studies. Classes are taught through an innovative style termed "Integrative Concept Seminars" or "iCons," which is meant to elaborate on the PBL learning originating at McMaster.
The program is often considered as a 'cousin program' to McMaster Arts and Science, where much of the team was involved in developing this fledgling program. iSci also has close ties with the Shad Valley program, which acted as a testing ground for the innovative teaching style. Although a specialized program requiring a written supplemental documentation, it is still placed within the McMaster Faculty of Science. The third floor of the H. G. Thode library of McMaster was built specifically for this program, containing a private classroom and study space only available for Integrated Science students.
The program is unique for having a guest lecture every week. The guest lecturers have included Dr. Dave Williams.
The program is often considered as a 'cousin program' to McMaster Arts and Science, where much of the team was involved in developing this fledgling program. iSci also has close ties with the Shad Valley program, which acted as a testing ground for the innovative teaching style. Although a specialized program requiring a written supplemental documentation, it is still placed within the McMaster Faculty of Science. The third floor of the H. G. Thode library of McMaster was built specifically for this program, containing a private classroom and study space only available for Integrated Science students.
The program is unique for having a guest lecture every week. The guest lecturers have included Dr. Dave Williams.
Stanford Taiko is a student performing ensemble at Stanford University devoted to bringing the awareness of taiko to the greater community. Composed of fifteen to twenty Stanford students, it is an entirely student run group under the guidance of the Department of Music and faculty advisors Steve Sano and Linda Uyechi.
Stanford Taiko has an entirely original repertoire composed by its members. As in the case of most taiko groups, the styles of performing and composing are constantly evolving, mostly due to the addition of new instruments and/or members. While many old traditions may get lost in the shuffle, this allows the group to grow in a dynamic and exciting way. Every member of Stanford Taiko contributes something of their own to the group, whether it be dance experience, musical background, or just great ideas! Many members of Stanford Taiko have gone on to pursue taiko professionally or started their own groups.
Also, in a collaborative project with San Jose Taiko and the Stanford Music Department, each July Stanford Taiko supports the Summer Taiko at Stanford day camp for children 9-16 years of age. In keeping with the forward-looking philosophy of this ever-changing collegiate organization, Stanford Taiko helped develop and continues to support the Luis Lujan Memorial Scholarship, a fund to encourage taiko learning and research.
Stanford Taiko remains true to the goals of its original charter to (i) present taiko to the Stanford community, and (ii) to educate the community about taiko. In addition to performances, the group holds regular workshops for community members, supports the Music Department seminar Perspectives on North American Taiko, has their annual Spring Concert, and participates annually in the Intercollegiate Taiko Invitational. Stanford Taiko has toured in Japan, Maui, and Thailand. In 2005, Stanford Taiko was the first collegiate group to perform in Taiko Jam at the North American Taiko Conference.
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Stanford Taiko has an entirely original repertoire composed by its members. As in the case of most taiko groups, the styles of performing and composing are constantly evolving, mostly due to the addition of new instruments and/or members. While many old traditions may get lost in the shuffle, this allows the group to grow in a dynamic and exciting way. Every member of Stanford Taiko contributes something of their own to the group, whether it be dance experience, musical background, or just great ideas! Many members of Stanford Taiko have gone on to pursue taiko professionally or started their own groups.
Also, in a collaborative project with San Jose Taiko and the Stanford Music Department, each July Stanford Taiko supports the Summer Taiko at Stanford day camp for children 9-16 years of age. In keeping with the forward-looking philosophy of this ever-changing collegiate organization, Stanford Taiko helped develop and continues to support the Luis Lujan Memorial Scholarship, a fund to encourage taiko learning and research.
Stanford Taiko remains true to the goals of its original charter to (i) present taiko to the Stanford community, and (ii) to educate the community about taiko. In addition to performances, the group holds regular workshops for community members, supports the Music Department seminar Perspectives on North American Taiko, has their annual Spring Concert, and participates annually in the Intercollegiate Taiko Invitational. Stanford Taiko has toured in Japan, Maui, and Thailand. In 2005, Stanford Taiko was the first collegiate group to perform in Taiko Jam at the North American Taiko Conference.
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Festival 8 was a music festival hosted by the Vermont, U.S.A. band The Phish on the Empire Polo Grounds of Indio, Ca from 10/30/09 thru 11/01/09 .
Among the hightlights of the festival, Phish performed a "musical costume" on 10/31/09 recreating the 1972 Rolling Stones album "Exile on Main Street ." Sharon Jones, Sondra Williams, and a three piece horn section contributed to the performance in supporting roles. The festival performances also featured an acoustic set on Sunday 11/01/09 featuring several of their more rare songs, including "McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters."<references/>
Among the hightlights of the festival, Phish performed a "musical costume" on 10/31/09 recreating the 1972 Rolling Stones album "Exile on Main Street ." Sharon Jones, Sondra Williams, and a three piece horn section contributed to the performance in supporting roles. The festival performances also featured an acoustic set on Sunday 11/01/09 featuring several of their more rare songs, including "McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters."<references/>
Definition(s):
1. A person who takes hard evidence to the people by publishing it on the internet such as publishing youtube videos that expose public corruption.
2. Any individual who plays an active role in exposing fraud and corruption, abuse and deceptive practices or any involvement in subverting the interests of justice or public responsibility that includes exposing facts and evidence on the internet that may not otherwise be exposed by the media such as youtube videos exposing Acorn Corruption and Fraud.
The new group of activists are referred to as "Acorn Crackers" who expose public corruption using the internet publishing recourses like youtube to make evidence such as recordings and videos of officials engaged in wrongdoings known and assessable to the general public, often thwarting media attempts to suppress public interest stories for possible self interest reasons.
The new atmosphere created by internet publishing simplicity has created an open door for "Acorn Crackers" to expose public corruption by means of publishing incriminating evidence, video tapes, recorded phone calls, etc. badly needed to bring about changes long over due.
see also:
Acorn Crackers
Definition(s):
1. Persons and groups with the courage to expose corruption and fraud in modern American Society by process of recording and exposing evidence on the internet such as youtube videos.
2. Activists sometimes subject to being accused of criminal conduct who document public officials and corporate fraud, greed etc. by means of publication on the internet and exposing secret recordings and video evidence American Mainstream Media attempts to ignore that in fact provides the accountability and transparency factor to public interest even the White House advocates.
3. People groups or persons like Fox News and Hanna Giles who expose and promote exposing corruption in American Politics and Institutions like Acorn brought into the public eye by publishing hard evidence on youtube and the likes.
Example:
Acorn Crackers are everywhere with cameras and recorders rolling and their corruption busting efforts are paramount to the success in making government and business in the United States both accountable and transparent in accord with the Obama White House commitment to change. Acorn Crackers are anything but criminals, they are the newest form of American heroes unafraid to go undercover, video, and audio tape the truth of what is going on in the United States public and private sectors.
and also:
Acorn Cracking
Definition(s)
1. The process of exposing ineptness, fraud and corruption in government, businesses, and institutions and by persons in American Society by means of making public on youtube, or internet publication hard evidence captured on video, voice recording, surveillance and public record documents.
2. Busting persons on the public payroll engaged in criminal acts by publishing evidence on the internet such as video evidence on youtube.
Example(s):
1. The Arizona residents may have saved their lives by "acorn cracking" Arizona's Department of Health Services as well as the City of Peoria's police, city officials and employees on youtube with video and audio recordings of an actual ambush, attack and assault of several unknown agents using the youtube name WhistleBlowerJob.
2. The private citizens became "acorn crackers" and unknowingly instant activists when they quickly left to do some "acorn cracking" by natural instinct with video evidence of police abuse, that resulted in criminal charges against a police officer through the ability to share their eyewitness account with the entire world to a police shooting at a Bart Station platform and thereafter alleged murder in California when they captured on a cell phone video the evidence of the incident. That appeared on youtube within a few hours of the killing. Without such citizen input and activism, such serious acts of misconduct, excessive force and abuse of power would likely go unnoticed or be covered up by the very agency or agencies that are meant to protect those rights being violated that the unknowing initial "acorn cracker" publishing the video footage and digital file did preserve for the deceased victim and his family. The process of acorn cracking in this instance effectively penetrates the commonly referred to "blue wall of silence" that police normally and unfortunately support in such instances. The process of acorn cracking, by acorn crackers and this particular acorn cracker herself, demonstrates the power of the internet to eventually and perhaps expeditiously bring about the reform and changes vastly needed in the United States to restore the sense of ethical responsibility and accountability that has been deteriorating for decades without the public's ability to rise above media suppression and authoritative oppression that has been increasingly rampant in he past decade.
1. A person who takes hard evidence to the people by publishing it on the internet such as publishing youtube videos that expose public corruption.
2. Any individual who plays an active role in exposing fraud and corruption, abuse and deceptive practices or any involvement in subverting the interests of justice or public responsibility that includes exposing facts and evidence on the internet that may not otherwise be exposed by the media such as youtube videos exposing Acorn Corruption and Fraud.
The new group of activists are referred to as "Acorn Crackers" who expose public corruption using the internet publishing recourses like youtube to make evidence such as recordings and videos of officials engaged in wrongdoings known and assessable to the general public, often thwarting media attempts to suppress public interest stories for possible self interest reasons.
The new atmosphere created by internet publishing simplicity has created an open door for "Acorn Crackers" to expose public corruption by means of publishing incriminating evidence, video tapes, recorded phone calls, etc. badly needed to bring about changes long over due.
see also:
Acorn Crackers
Definition(s):
1. Persons and groups with the courage to expose corruption and fraud in modern American Society by process of recording and exposing evidence on the internet such as youtube videos.
2. Activists sometimes subject to being accused of criminal conduct who document public officials and corporate fraud, greed etc. by means of publication on the internet and exposing secret recordings and video evidence American Mainstream Media attempts to ignore that in fact provides the accountability and transparency factor to public interest even the White House advocates.
3. People groups or persons like Fox News and Hanna Giles who expose and promote exposing corruption in American Politics and Institutions like Acorn brought into the public eye by publishing hard evidence on youtube and the likes.
Example:
Acorn Crackers are everywhere with cameras and recorders rolling and their corruption busting efforts are paramount to the success in making government and business in the United States both accountable and transparent in accord with the Obama White House commitment to change. Acorn Crackers are anything but criminals, they are the newest form of American heroes unafraid to go undercover, video, and audio tape the truth of what is going on in the United States public and private sectors.
and also:
Acorn Cracking
Definition(s)
1. The process of exposing ineptness, fraud and corruption in government, businesses, and institutions and by persons in American Society by means of making public on youtube, or internet publication hard evidence captured on video, voice recording, surveillance and public record documents.
2. Busting persons on the public payroll engaged in criminal acts by publishing evidence on the internet such as video evidence on youtube.
Example(s):
1. The Arizona residents may have saved their lives by "acorn cracking" Arizona's Department of Health Services as well as the City of Peoria's police, city officials and employees on youtube with video and audio recordings of an actual ambush, attack and assault of several unknown agents using the youtube name WhistleBlowerJob.
2. The private citizens became "acorn crackers" and unknowingly instant activists when they quickly left to do some "acorn cracking" by natural instinct with video evidence of police abuse, that resulted in criminal charges against a police officer through the ability to share their eyewitness account with the entire world to a police shooting at a Bart Station platform and thereafter alleged murder in California when they captured on a cell phone video the evidence of the incident. That appeared on youtube within a few hours of the killing. Without such citizen input and activism, such serious acts of misconduct, excessive force and abuse of power would likely go unnoticed or be covered up by the very agency or agencies that are meant to protect those rights being violated that the unknowing initial "acorn cracker" publishing the video footage and digital file did preserve for the deceased victim and his family. The process of acorn cracking in this instance effectively penetrates the commonly referred to "blue wall of silence" that police normally and unfortunately support in such instances. The process of acorn cracking, by acorn crackers and this particular acorn cracker herself, demonstrates the power of the internet to eventually and perhaps expeditiously bring about the reform and changes vastly needed in the United States to restore the sense of ethical responsibility and accountability that has been deteriorating for decades without the public's ability to rise above media suppression and authoritative oppression that has been increasingly rampant in he past decade.