2008 Nov 3 - Nov 9

Monday 03 November 2008 - 6:30 PM
Giant Eagle Auditorium Baker Hall A51
Carnegie Mellon University
MARK PASNIK: BUILDING ACTIVISM
Mark Pasnik is a founding principal of over,under an interdisciplinary collaborative design studio in Boston and co-director of the firm's pinkcomma gallery. He currently holds the Lucian and Rita Caste Career Development Professorship in Architecture & Urban Design at Carnegie Mellon University.

Mon 03 Nov 2008 - 7 PM
Cafe Scientifique
Penn Brewery, North Side
Mark Dixon and two friends, Ben and Julie Evans, left from Pittsburgh's Station Square on July 4, 2007, for a year long road trip that they called YERT--Your Environmental Road Trip--visiting all 50 states to discover the environmental ideas people were coming up with all over the country. They filmed the entire trip, and posted sometimes zany but always informative video clips on their website (www.yert.com). Now they are preparing to make an independent film based on their adventure.
Featured on the Weather Channel, the local environmental radio program "The Allegheny Front" (view site), and the national environmental radio program "Living on Earth," Mark will share the most powerful stories and short videos from their year-long eco-adventure through all 50 states. You'll also learn how he and Julie and Ben managed to record interviews with over 800 green experts, professors, politicians, and average citizens during the year, while keeping all of their garbage in the car with them the whole way-- and not killing each other in the process! And, oh yes, there was at least one major surprise along the way!
Mark was one of a group of people trained by Al Gore to give his "Inconvenient Truth" presentation to people around the world, so he knows his environmental stuff beyond the amazing eco-adventure that was YERT.

Tue Nov 4 - VOTE !!!
activities and funky appearences all over town

Tue Nov 4 - 6 PM to midnight
CMU - Rangos ballroom
You followed the primaries, the polls and the ads. You saw the debates. Depending on your political persuasion, you've got Hope Fever, or Maverick Measles... or Green Gout, Libertarian Lupus, or Independent Influenza... or I-can't-vote-because-I'm-an-international-student-itis. Any way it goes, you've got the sickness, and we've got the cure.
Join the Activities Board and Student Government for the medicine that makes it all better, watching the results roll in as citizens across the United States vote! CNN, MSNBC and Fox News will be going - at the same time.
While you're there, you can partake in delicious (and free!) food, including dozens and dozens of Dozen Cupcakes (and much more). Enjoy some of the finest entertainment from Carnegie Mellon's best student entertainment.
Rock out, have a blast, and be as awesome! Everyone is welcome to watch this historic election come to a conclusion!
Watch the election returns on three giant-screen TVs, with free food and entertainment. Entertainment includes improv comedy by the No Parking Players, stand-up comedy by Tom Pike, and musical performances by Tennessee Whiskey, 4 Ugly Dudes, The Four Six, the Tim Ruff Trio and more. Sponsored by the Activities Board and Student Government.

Wed Nov 5 - 4:30 PM
CMU - McConony Auditorium
S. Gopalakrishnan is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited. As Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, he plays a key role in defining the company strategy and in using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership of the industry.

Wed Nov 5 - 7:30 PM
cinema latinoamericano
Frick Arts Building auditorium

Thu Nov 6 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall 119
The University Lecture Series presents a concert by the Ortner/Roberts Duo. The concert, titled "Between Klezmer and Harlem Stride," features an innovative fusion of the lively, traditional instrumental music of the Eastern European Jews and the acrobatic Harlem Stride Piano of the Early Jazz Era. Clarinetist Susanne Ortner-Roberts is widely acclaimed in Germany, Israel and Switzerland as a soloist and member of the German Klezmer quartet "Sing Your Soul." Jazz pianist Tom Roberts is one of the leading exponents of early jazz piano in the world. He's performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, on The Tonight Show, and has recorded over 30 CDs.

Thu Nov 6 - 5 PM
CMU at Porter Hall 100
72nd Treasury of the Secretary, Former CEO of ALCOA, and subject of Ron Suskind's book The Price of Loyalty speaks on the economy. Free Admission www.activitiesboard.org

Fri Nov 7 - 5 PM
CMU - Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
The Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy presents Toure Reed, an associate professor of history at Illinois State University. Reed will discuss "Civil Rights and the Fight Against 'Social Disorganization:' The Urban League and Black Middle Class Reform." Refreshments will be served prior to the lecture at 4:30 p.m.

Sat Nov 8, 11 AM - 7 PM
Sun Nov 9, 11 AM - 5 PM
handmade arcade
Hunt Armory, 324 Emerson St, Shadyside neighborhood

Sat Nov 8 - 11:15 AM
6K race in frick park
Pittsylvania XC Challenge
$15 on race day
Falls Ravine shelter
SAT Nov 8 - 11:30 AM
North East Ohio Orienteering Club meet
Hinckley reservation

Sat Nov 8 - 9 AM to 4 PM
Microsoft offices, 32 Isabella St, North Shore
Free workshop with microsoft developers
When it comes to design patterns, the MVC is the granddaddy of them all. First described in the late 70s, the MVC pattern remains very popular in the world of web applications today. ASP.NET MVC provides a framework that enables you to easily implement the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern for Web applications. This pattern lets you separate applications into loosely coupled, pluggable components for application design, processing logic, and display.
Throughout the day we will be demonstrating the ASP.NET MVC Framework in a cookbook-style approach with recipes on how to solve common challenges when developing MVC web applications. No previous knowledge or experience is necessary. We will walk you through the basics on creating views and controllers and by the end of the day show you how to develop end-to-end MVC applications complete with Ajax, authentication, authorization, caching, databinding, logging, persistence, validation, and other common challenges we experience in day-to-day development.
Sample code will leverage and integrate popular frameworks and libraries like ADO.NET Data Services, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Enterprise Library, Entity Framework, and LINQ To SQL to show you how to write less code and be more productive during your development.
Polish it all off with examples showing the extensibility of the MVC Framework using custom controller factories, alternative view engines, and custom action filter attributes just to name a few.
Topics covered will include “How Do I...”
- Create Views Easily? ( HTML and Url Helpers )
- Handle Get and Post Requests? ( simple databinding of action method arguments, ActionResults, etc.. )
- Pass Data Between Views and Controllers? ( ViewData and TempData )
- Bind Views and Forms to complex data types? ( ModelBinders )
- Handle Errors Gracefully? ( ActionFilter Attributes )
- Provide Input Error Validation? ( ValidationMessage, ValidationSummary, ViewData.ModelState )
- Handle Authentication and Authorization? ( ActionFilter Attributes and Membership Provider )
- Persist to a database ( LINQ To SQL, Entity Framework )
- Log Messages to Database, File, EventLog ( ActionFilter Attributes, etc. )
- Leverage AJAX and JSON? ( ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery )
Some of the more complex and non-beginner topics can be discussed if time is allowed and/or maybe discussed afterwards in a social environs…
- Alternate View Engines
- IoC and Custom Controller Factories
- Unit Testing

Sun Nov 9 - 10 AM to 1 PM
Orienteering meet with the Western Pennsylvania Orienteering Club
Pine Ridge county park, Indiana County, near route 22 just next to Blairsville, PA
Course director will be Batista, a recreational adventure racer