Regardless of your skill level, even if you don’t know what an Arduino is, if you are interested in making or technology be sure to come out to our workshop/hang outs. The group gathers to learn together about the Arduino. This revolutionary microcontroller is an easy way for almost anyone to start creating projects that are capable of interacting with the world in almost endless ways. Whether your looking to make a robot or control the temperature of your brewing fridge the Arduino can be an easy way to dive in. Defcon501 is a Central Arkansas hacker group made up of diverse individuals who want to encourage your curiosity and collaborate to make fun and interesting projects. If you’ve got an arduino bring it, same goes for your laptop.

Takei, whose appearance is underwritten by the Stella Boyle Smith Trust, will take the stage as narrator during Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw. The narration that accompanies this piece depicts the story of a concentration camp survivor from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. Takei, a Japanese American who as a child was interned at an internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas during World War II, is a supporter of human right issues and community activist. Takei is chairman emeritus and a trustee of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles and was appointed to the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission by former President Clinton.

Just after Schoenberg’s moving piece, Maestro Philip Mann and the ASO musicians will be joined by over 400 voices from the state of Arkansas for Beethoven’s prayer for hope and peace, Symphony No. 9, Ode to Joy. “This is perhaps the most recognizable work in the history of classical music, and for good reason,” said Mann. “Its message of triumph and victory through a shared brotherhood between peoples is an enduring, timeless, and transcendent declaration. Seen as a watershed movement in music history, the work has gained such significance and is now synonymous with important moments in world history—like its performance marking the re-unification of Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall.”

Children kindergarten through 12th grade can attend our Sunday matinee performances for free (with the purchase of an adult ticket) using the Entergy Kids Ticket – available for download at www.ArkansasSymphony.org. Adult single tickets range from $14-$52 and can be purchased online at www.ArkansasSymphony.org or over the phone at (501) 666-1761. Student and military tickets are $10.

Program Details

ODE TO JOY
Saturday, February 25 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 26 at 3 p.m.
Robinson Center Music Hall

Featuring
George Takei, narrator
Schoenberg Chorus
River City Men’s Chorus
Beethoven Chorus
Arkansas State University
Harding University
Hendrix College
Lyon College
Ouachita Baptist University
Philander Smith College
Southern Arkansas University at Magnolia
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
University of Arkansas at Monticello
Members of River City Men’s Chorus
Philip Mann, conductor
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra

MTAC has many popular recurring events, including a cosplay contest, a risque cosplay contest, a ramen eating contest, an AMV contest, and a rave.

Guests: Jason David Frank, Symphonic Anime Orchestra, Eric Stewart, Kyle Hebert, Jason Charles Miller, Pinn Panelle, Head Phones President

Pre-Registration Prices
3-Day Membership $40.00
2-Day Membership $36
1-Day Membership $22

2-Day Weekend Ticket On-Site Price $55.00
1-Day Ticket On-Site Price $40.00

Arkansas Anime Festival (aka A2F)
Location: Springdale Holiday Inn, 1500 South 48th Street, Springdale, AR
Visit Website: Click here
Start Date: 2012-03-16
End Date: 2012-03-18
Description: Arkansas Anime Festival was founded in 2006 and has been an on going, and growing, NWA sensation! We are the State’s ORIGINAL and LARGEST Anime Convention! The Arkansas Anime Festival is FAN RUN…. We love anime just as much as you do!!

At-Door Registration Prices:
Friday – $20 (children 9 and under – $10)
Saturday – $30 (children 9 and under – $20)
Sunday – $15 (children 9 and under – $10)
3-day Pass – $50 (children 9 and under – $35)
Children 3 & under get in FREE.

More details as it comes available.

MegaRan’s Website: http://megaran.com/
The OneUps Website: http://www.theoneups.com/

Description: Made by Few is a 1-day conference featuring talks from entrepreneurs, designers, developers, and creatives. It’s part showcase, part education, and part inspiration.

It costs $25 to register and there is a limited number of tickets available. All proceeds go straight into making the event awesome. Any funds left over get donated to Our House.

UPDATE: New Location

Get your Ticket for the meeting here! Remember his is how we figure out how much food to get so please help us make sure we have enough for everyone. Please RSVP before noon on December 13th so we can order enough food for everyone.

Meeting Information

Title: Practical Test Driven Development

So you’ve listened to the great minds of Agile development, and agree that Test Driven Development sounds awesome … but your code base isn’t even remotely setup for dependency injection, or interface, or any of that. So you gave up. Well fear not my friends, I’m here to help you understand how to do TDD, without starting from a blank slate. It is perfectly possible to make TDD happen, but you just need to learn to use a couple of tricks that make refactoring your existing code less painful.

About the Presenter: Tim Rayburn

Tim Rayburn is a Principal Consultant with Improving Enterprises and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Connected Systems Development. He is President of the Dallas Connected Systems User Group, and he commonly speaks at user groups throughout Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, as well as at conferences such as the Tulsa TechFest, Houston TechFest, VSLive! Austin, Microsoft TechEd and the Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference.

Tim can be reached on Twitter at @trayburn

Agenda
6:00 PM – 6:15 PM – Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM – 8:10 PM – Main Presentation
8:10 PM – 8:30 PM – Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where
University of Phoenix – Pinnacle Hills Learning Center
1800 S. 52nd St, Suite 100
Rogers, AR 72758

Each year, Naka-Kon invites an array of voice actors and manga artists who host a variety of panels and events designed to educate and entertain both current anime enthusiasts and those who wish to learn more about the American otaku subculture. Don’t miss a moment of the fun!

If you are developing web applications today you have probably used the jQuery library or at least have heard of it. jQuery has helped web developers become far more efficient and precise in adding rich functionality to web applications without having to worry about browser capabilities.

Join us as we dive into the inner workings of this library and gain a better understanding of how it works. Along the way, we will explore several popular plug-ins that you are sure to find useful in your web applications. Regardless of your level of expertise with jQuery, there is much to be discovered here!

Darth Vader, Storm Troopers and R2-D2 will be in attendance to take pictures and sign autographs with fans before the game. Light Saber fight involving these characters and Razorback mascots at halftime.

For tickets call 800-982-HOGS or visit
ArkansasRazorbacks.com

For more information call 479-575-4412

Start Date: Saturday, December 17 – 2 PM
End Date: Saturday, December 17 – 4 PM

Website: ArkansasRazorbacks.com

Pre-Registration Prices
Through August 31 2011 – $30.00
September 1st – December 31st 2011 – $35.00
After December 31st – $40.00

Get your Ticket for the meeting here: http://nwadnug112011.eventbrite.com/ ! Remember his is how we figure out how much food to get so please help us make sure we have enough for everyone. Please RSVP before noon on November 15th so we can order enough food for everyone.

Meeting Information

Title: Enterprise development with MVC3 – Time to Put on Your Architectural Hats

When it comes to Enterprise development, best patterns and practices are more a necessity than something good to have. This talk would go through some of those best practices with focus on some of the tools quintessential for success on MVC applications. It will also incorporate some real world scenarios and different ways to solve them as well as building modular solutions with separation of concerns leading to scalable apps.

About the Presenter: Chander Dhall

Chander Dhall is a Microsoft MVP, professional software architect/lead developer, trainer, INETA speaker, open source contributor, community leader and organizer with more than eight years of experience in enterprise Software Development. He works in a goal oriented, technologically driven, fast paced AGILE (SCRUM) environment. He is the founder of Dallas day of dot net. He has a Master’s Degree in computer science with specialization in algorithms, principles and patterns and is focused on building high performing modular software. Chander leads the UT Dallas .NET user group and recently got recognized as “One of the top organizers” by Eventbrite.
Chander has been a featured speaker in numerous conferences and code camps all over the world. Chander can be reached on Twitter at @csdhall

Agenda
6:00 PM – 6:15 PM – Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM – 8:10 PM – Main Presentation
8:10 PM – 8:30 PM – Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where
University of Phoenix – Pinnacle Hills Learning Center
1800 S. 52nd St, Suite 100
Rogers, AR 72758

(From http://nwadnug.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-2011-meeting-enterprise.html)

The authors attending the dinner are:
Henry D. Blalock, a short story writer that has won several fantasy story awards and Swordbearer, a short independent film, was based on one of his stories.
Alexander S. Brown, is an author of a collection of short stories about vampires, Traumatized.
Linda C. DeLeon, is a registered nurse that uses her love of history and fascination of vampires in her two books, Into Darkness and Veil in Time.
William Eakin, writes about mysterious happenings in Mississippi in his book, Redkunk Tales: Tales From The Kudzu.
Robert J. Krog’s published works The Stone Maiden and Other Tales, the short story Babies’ Breath, and the novella A Bag Full of Eyes due to come out in January 2012.
Jennifer L Mulvihill’s The Lost Daughter of Easa is the first book of a series about a young girl transported through a portal to another world. She is currently working on her second novel.
Herika R. Raymer, is an assistant editor of Sam’s Dot Magazines and her short stories are published by to Sam’s Dot and Kerlack Publishing Companies.

Contact The Fine Arts Center for information and tickets, 501-624-0489 or send an email to INFO@HSFAC.ORG