San Diego Comic-Con 2011

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Published on Sunday, 17 July 2011 05:00

Written by Film FestivalTraveler Staff

The world-famous San Diego Comic-Con International runs July 21 - 24, 2011, returning to the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.

Due to the high volume of attendance and numerous events, the films and related panels are also being presented at the San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina Hotel.

Appearing are well over 60 Special Guests from comics and graphic novels, magazines, books and art works, such as:

• Sergio Aragonés – Cartoonist, Groo, MAD magazine
• Jean Bails – The widow of Dr. Jerry Bails, the "Father of Comic Book Fandom"
• Anina Bennett – Writer/Editor, Heartbreakers, Boilerplate
• Joyce Brabner – Writer, Real War Stories, Our Cancer Year
• Ernie Chan – Artist, Conan, Batman, Jonah Hex
• Jo Chen – Artist, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Runaways, Xbox Fable
• Dick DeBartolo – Writer, MAD magazine
• Garth Ennis – Writer/Creator, Preacher, Crossed, The Boys
• Joyce Farmer – Cartoonist, Wimmen's Comix, Special Exits
• Peter Kuper – Cartoonist/Illustrator, Spy vs. Spy, World War 3 Illustrated
• Mell Lazarus – Syndicated Cartoonist, Miss Peach, Momma
• Jim Lee – Artist/Co-publisher, DC Comics
• Rebecca Moesta – Author, Buffy and Jedi Knight novels
• Louise Simonson –  Writer/Editor, Power Pack, Superman: Man of Steel

Hollywood is turning out as well, with appearances by:

• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn stars and director: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and director Bill Condon
• Filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn, with cast members Guy Pearce (Don't Be Afraid of the Dark) and Carey Mulligan and Ron Perlman (Drive)
• Sarah Michelle Gellar, with Ringer co-stars Ioan Gruffudd, Nestor Carbonell, Kristoffer Polaha, executive producers Pam Veasey, Nicole Snyder and Eric Charmelo
• Bruce Campbell, star of Burn Notice, and Matt Nix, Burn Notice creator/writer/executive producer, to present Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
• Napoleon Dynamite original cast members from the hit indie film including Jon Heder, Tina Majorino, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries, Sandy Martin, Diedrich Bader and executive producer Mike Scully
• Homeland – Series star Morena Baccarin introduces exclusive footage

Comic-Con International again features a massive schedule of programming events -- the largest of any comics or pop culture convention in the country.

Some of the panels are:

• Heroes & Villains: Creating a Character-Driven Story with Maxwell Alexander Drake
• Comic Book Law School 101: "C" Is For Creator (and Copyright!)
• Figure Drawing for Popular Media – Emilio Soltero, Ph.D.
• Comic-Con How-To: Computer Animation – John Banana
• Her Universe: What Women Want in Their Female Sci-Fi Heroes
• So, You Want to be a Sci-Fi Journalist?
• Writing Movies for Fun and Profit
• History of the Modern Zombie
• H. P. Lovecraft in Comics and Film

The convention also presents:

• a strong film program, including
  • anime
  • children‛s film festival
  • independent film festival
• two gaming areas
• masquerade
• artists alley
• fan tables
• autograph areas
• a fabulous exhibition hall

For more information, go to www.comic-con.org.

San Diego Comic Con International
July 21 - 24, 2011

San Diego Convention Center
111 W. Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101
619-525-5000

San Diego Marriott Marquis and Marina
333 West Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101
619-234-1500

Cloud Identity Summit

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Published on Sunday, 10 July 2011 05:00

Written by Christopher Lai

The Cloud Identity Summit held July 18 - 21, 2001 at the Keystone Convention Center in Keystone, CO will be an exciting event featuring the top names in online security.

The Cloud Identity Summit is where leaders in identity, security, cloud and enterprise come together to solve these issues and define a path to the future. With networks continuously becoming more distributed and heterogeneous every day, security is becoming of the upmost importance.

The conference will feature distinguished speakers like Microsoft's Technical Fellow John Shewchuck, Google's Product Manager for Google Security Eric Sachs, Director of Products and internet Identity Andrew Nash, PingIdentity's CTO Patrick Harding, SalesForce.com's Director of Product Management Identity and Security Chuck Mortimore, Bechtel's Identity & Access Engineer Brian Ward, and Gartner's VP Bob Blakley.

Some of this year's summit topics include:

• Mobile Cloud Identity
• Jurisdiction in the Cloud
• Managing cloud Applications at Scale
• Connecting Islands of Applications
• Preparing for Federated Consumer ID's
• Enabling Cloud & SaaS Provisioning
• Social Identity within Enterprise

Some of the workshops include:

OpenID & OpenID Connect 101 Lead by Eric Sachs, Google
July 18
This session will help clarify a collection of terms you might hear about federated login including OpenID v2, AX, OpenIDConnect, OAuthConnect, OAuth-WRAP, Artifact Binding, OIDF, OIX, NSTIC, and NIST among others.

By the time this workshop is over, you should have a clear idea which of these things matter to you, and why. We will also spend some time talking about why and how you might use them. Other sessions at the summit will cover the details of specific use-cases.

Integrating with Force.com. Hands-On SAML & OAuth Lead by Pat Patterson, Salesforce
July 19
The standards wars are over - SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, HTML 5 and REST form a new base for quickly developing secure mobile applications. In this workshop, developers will create a SAML-enabled service provider application that accesses the Force.com database via REST calls, secured by OAuth, rendering content in HTML5 for consumption by the widest possible range of clients. Experience the future of cloud development with Force.com!

Leveraging PingFederate with Microsoft ADFS, WIF, SP2010 Lead by Travis Spencer, Ping Identity
July 19
Federated identity and the cloud open up all sorts of possibilities, however, many organizations are struggling to adopt them due to previous investments, legacy systems and difficult integration challenges. In this workshop, you will learn how to overcome these using the power of PingFederate, a world-class Cloud identity platform that supports the simplest and the most advanced use cases, together with Microsoft's new identity-related technologies.

Specifically, attendees will learn how to use Windows Identity Foundation (WIF), Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), SharePoint 2010, PingFederate, and the Cloud in practical ways. You will gain valuable insights from an expert who intimately understands how these technologies work and how they can be used together in a heterogeneous enterprise ecosystem.

For more information, go to http://www.cloudidentitysummit.com.

Cloud Identity Summit
July 18 - 21, 2011

Keystone Convention Center
Keystone, CO

Summer Fancy Food Show 2011 is in DC

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Published on Wednesday, 06 July 2011 05:00

Written by L E Shannon

The 57th Summer Fancy Food Show 2011 takes place July 10 - 12, 2011 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

The show is sponsored by the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT), which is a not-for-profit trade association established in 1952 to foster trade, commerce and interest in the specialty food industry.

"The three-day trade event is the largest marketplace for specialty foods and beverages in North America. The Show attracts buyers from around the world looking for what’s next in great food to present to customers in the year to come."

The sofi Awards are considered the highest honor in the $70 billion U.S. specialty food industry. "sofi" stands for Specialty Outstanding Food Innovation.

Italy, for the 30th year in a row, will have the largest pavilion at the Show, where one can savor the best of Italian foods. The Italian Trade Commission will bring together a wide range of authentic Italian gustatory products, all distinguished by their unique "Made in Italy" designation.

Visitors can see and experience samplings of wine, cheese, freshly pressed fruit juices and extra virgin olive oil, as well as gelato- and pasta-making demonstrations. New items this year include:

• frozen pizza and focaccia
• individually quick frozen and organic quick frozen desserts and dairy products
• gluten-free specialty foods, including pasta
• flavored vinegars and salts
• artisanal beer
• ready to eat dishes
• new extra virgin olive oils

New Jersey artisanal Chocolatier, Diane Pinder, announces the launch of two new products. "We’ve been developing two new products under our CocoaBee brand that will be officially launched at the NASFT Summer Show," said Diane Pinder, Chocolatier and founder of Donna & Company. "These two products, Honey Caramels and Pistachio Brittle Bites, emerged from my Tuscan Style chocolate perspective."

The Sweetery is introducing three of its creations at the Show: 

• Wine Sticks, in chocolate, apple and cinnamon espresso
• Cake Croutons, for crust or trifle, or even right out of the bag - in 5 flavors
• Red Velvet Fusion Cake, a decades-old Southern red velvet cake recipe with a cream cheese filling

Choice Organic Teas is delighted to present five new teas

• Oothu Garden Green
• Wild Forest Black
• Decaffeinated English Breakfast
• Yerba Maté Mint
• Rooibos Superfruit

Sales of these teas, sourced from four different continents, are also to support the Jane Goodall Institute and Choice‛s commitment to social and environmental sustainability.

To go along with any fine loose tea, Elmwood Inn Fine Teas has the wonderful T-sac filters. Now tea lovers who tire of cleaning up after used loose tea leaves can fill their own tea bags. Sizes range from single-cup bags to bags for 2-3 cup and 4-6 cup teapots, to the large bags for large teapots and catering vessels. No tea drinker's kitchen should be without them.

Bourbon Barrel Foods is presenting their Blue Grass Soy Sauce. Made in Louisville, Kentucky, this is America's only micro brewed soy sauce. It is made from locally sourced non-GMO soybeans and pure limestone filtered spring water, then aged 12 months in re-purposed bourbon barrels. The result: "a smoky, brothy soy sauce with hints of oak and a mild sweetness reminiscent of fine Kentucky bourbon."

QimiQ Red Snapper Sliders with Mango Ketchup are a must-try. The QimiQ Classic in the recipe keeps the burger moist and juicy, enhances the natural flavors and reduces the fat content. QimiQ Classic also creates a creamy consistency to the ketchup, adding a great twist to a traditional hamburger.

Ciao Bella, the gelato and sorbet company, introduced two new products: Belgian Chocolate S’mores (offered in novelty squares and pints), and a new Blueberry Passion bar. These treats are a great addition to their already fabulous line of sorbet flavors, such as Key Lime Graham, Peach Ginger and Blackberry Cabernet, and with summer in full blaze they couldn‛t come at a better time.

Linda's Gourmet Latkes is adding new flavors: Zucchini and Curry. Her other innovation is the Extra Large 3-ounce Latke, in Original Flavor and Zucchini.

Other new samplings on hand are:

• Strawberry Fig Syrup by Blackberry Patch
• Chocolate-Covered Wine Grapes from Bissinger's Handcrafted Chocolatier
• Chocolate Mini-Pops by Rogue Confections
• Sesame King Tahini Paste from Sunshine International Foods, Inc.

This is but a morsel of the hundreds of delights in store for Show attendees -- and the eagerly waiting consumers out there.

Giving Back – At the end of the Show, exhibitors plan to donate more than 100,000 pounds of specialty foods and beverages to area residents in need through DC Central Kitchen (DCCK), a leading anti-hunger organization that prepares and delivers more than 6,000 meals a day to 100 partnership agencies.

For more information, go to www.specialtyfood.com/fancy-food-show and select the Summer show.

Summer Fancy Food Show 2011
July 10 - 12, 2011

Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mt. Vernon Pl. NW
Washington, D.C. 20001