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Packaged Contact Center Enterprise (Packaged CCE) topped the list of introductions, offering a robust customer care solution that's amazingly easy to quote, deploy, and operate. Packaged CCE is a packaged deployment model of Cisco's enterprise contact center software designed for customers who want to get a voice contact center up and running quickly, but who might wish to add features and expand over time. Anyone looking for a change in their customer care strategy should give Packaged CCE a close look – it's a cost-effective, powerful solution that could change your mind about contact centers.
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Our contact center solutions for the small to medium sized business also saw enhancements. Cisco Unified Contact Center Express 9.0 added Cisco Unified Intelligence Center for historical reporting, allowing us to standardize on one reporting solution across all our customer collaboration offerings. In addition, web chat is new for Unified Contact Center Express – adding yet another channel for customers to reach out to customer care representatives. And for supervisors, we introduced the ability to manage agent skills from their mobile devices.
Cisco's goal is to take complexity out of the contact center to allow businesses to focus where it matters most – on their customers.
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"According to IDC, nearly three-quarters of all images are now captured on smartphones and tablets1," said Dinesh Bahal, vice president, product marketing, SanDisk. "With this significant increase in mobile-generated content, consumers are looking for easy ways to manage it all. In fact, our research shows that 82% of U.S. smartphone users find transferring photos, videos, music and other files to be very important to them2. We created the iXpand Flash Drive to offer consumers a quick and safe way to move their favorite content between devices so it's available when and where they want it."
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The iXpand sync app also enables cross-platform encryption4, offering consumers the ability to transfer and access their sensitive files from iPhone, iPad, PC and Mac computers. Using the iXpand sync app, files can be password-protected on the drive directly from an iPhone or iPad and then easily decrypted on a Mac or PC and vice versa. The iXpand provides users with peace of mind that their files are always secure, while offering flexibility to protect data on the go.
The iXpand Flash Drive is available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB* capacities and is compatible with iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPad Air 2, iPad Air, iPad mini 3, iPad mini 2, iPad mini running iOS 8 or iOS 7. The iXpand Flash Drive was designed with a unique flexible connector so it can connect directly to iPhone or iPad without first removing the protective case. The drive features a premium metal exterior which adds to its durability. The iXpand Flash Drive also comes with a two-year limited warranty5.
The iXpand sync app is available on the App Store for iPhone or iPad.
The iXpand Flash Drive will be available in the U.S. at Best Buy stores and at BestBuy.com. Starting November 16, Best Buy stores will exclusively offer the 32GB iXpand Flash Drive at an MSRP of $79.99. The iXpand Flash Drive is available now at SanDisk.com, and is coming soon to select retailers globally. The 16GB and 64GB capacities will be available at $59.99 and $119.99, respectively.
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more than 26 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage, providing trusted and innovative products that have transformed the electronics industry. Today, SanDisk's quality, state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk's consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.
© 2014 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. iXpand is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation. iPad, iPhone, iPad, iPad mini and iPad Air are trademarks of Apple Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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1 Source: Worldwide Digital Image 2014-2018 Forecast: The Image Capture and Share Bible (IDC #246469, February 2014)
2 Source: SanDisk consumer market survey of 1,003 participants in the USA, June 2014
3 Support for .WMV, .AVI, .MKV, .MP4, .MOV video formats. Compatible device required.
4Password protection uses 128-bit AES encryption and is supported by iOS 7+, Mac OS X v10.6+ (Software download required for Mac, (see www.sandisk.com/support/ixpandflashdrive) Windows Vista®, Windows® 7 and Windows 8.
5 See www.sandisk.com/wug
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for markets, products, industry trends and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: the market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations or our products may not be available in the capacities that we expect or perform as expected, or the other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q and our annual report on Form 10-K. We do not intend to update the information contained in this news release.

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Jesse Jackson Jr. and the $43K Rolex
Former Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) will plead guilty to conspiring with his wife to illegally spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses, including a $43,000 Rolex watch, fur coats and memorabilia associated with Michael Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Bruce Lee, according to information obtained by POLITICO.
The charges against him include conspiracy, making false statements, and mail and wire fraud.
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Prosecutors will recommend a prison sentence of between 46 months and 57 months for Jackson Jr., as well as a fine of $10,000 to $100,000, and forfeiture of a yet-to-be-determined portion of the misspent $750,000 in campaign funds.
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Jackson's wife, former Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, has also pled guilty to one count of filing false joint tax returns, according to court documents. She faces up to three years in prison and a $100,000 fine. At different times, Sandi Jackson served as her husband's campaign manager and campaign treasurer. Both Jacksons resigned from office amid the Justice Department's investigation into their finances. The couple has two children.
Jackson, Jr., issued a statement through his attorneys on Friday afternoon apologizing for his actions.
"Over the course of my life I have come to realize that none of us are immune from our share of shortcomings and human frailties. Still I offer no excuses for my conduct and I fully accept my responsibility for the improper decisions and mistakes I have made," Jackson said. "To that end I want to offer my sincerest apologies to my family, my friends and all of my supporters for my errors in judgment and while my journey is not yet complete, it is my hope that I am remembered for the things that I did right."
The allegations against the Jacksons represent a breathtaking scheme to re-appropriate donors' money to finance trips and luxuries, pay bills and even send the couple's children to school. Unlike many scandals that have ensnared elected officials, this brazen tale of personal enrichment doesn't involve public money.
It's a story of a Chicago power couple that lost track of the line between campaign cash and personal funds in a spiral of money troubles. The government will allege the Jacksons lied on campaign finance and House financial disclosure forms to cover up the fact that they were using campaign money to build a lifestyle way beyond their means. Federal investigators sank their teeth into the couple, even conducting an apparent sting operation in August 2012. An undercover employee bought two mounted elk heads that Jackson Jr. had bought from a Montana taxidermist with campaign funds.
The $750,000 in alleged misspent campaign funds included thousands of individual transactions that ranged from airplane tickets, booze and cigars to groceries.
Jackson Jr. repeatedly used campaign funds to pay down the couple's credit-card balances. In one instance, Jackson Jr.'s campaign paid Sandi Jackson's business $36,000 for "billboard expenses." A week later, prosecutors say, Sandi Jackson transferred the same amount from her business to the Jacksons' personal account, from which it was used to pay down personal debts.
The Jacksons used campaign funds to cover even the most basic of necessities, including cleaning supplies, bathrobes, underwear, toilet paper, toothpaste, soap, vitamins and stuffed animals, among other things, according to prosecutors. They also spent freely on luxuries, including home electronics, a trip to a Martha's Vineyard spa for a member of Sandi Jackson's family, Walt Disney World transportation services and charges of more than $4,000 on a 2006 cruise, court documents allege.


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Giant Thermoelectric Effect from Transmission Supernodes. Justin Bergfield, Michelle Solis, and Charles Stafford. ACS Nano Sept. 2010.http://www.physorg.com/news204552797.html
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Thorium is nice, really cheap fusion is nicer.
Check out focusfusion.org and LPPpower.com . It could be hitting the world markets in under 5 years, at 1/20 the best current N.A. retail capital and output costs.
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Summary Meeting Notes for CIC Meeting on August 28, 2013
Community Involvement Committee
Meeting Minutes
Meeting Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Committee Members present: Jason Barnstead-Long, Liz Gatti, Linda Nettekoven, Stanley Penkin, Howard Shapiro, Peter Stark
Absent: Paula Amato, Judy BlueHorse Skelton, Lois Cohen, Judith Gonzalez Plascencia, Anyeley Hallova, Shirley Nacoste, Lai-Lani Ovalles, Ryan Schera, Alison Stoll
Staff: Diane Hale, Michelle Kunec-North, Deborah Stein, Marty Stockton, Sandra Wood
Visitors: None
Howard Shapiro, Chair led the meeting.
MartyStocktonannounced the final PEG meetings to be held in September and summer events where a Comprehensive Plan Update outreach table is planned, which are listed at the end of this summary.
Marty reminded the CIC that their terms have ended on Comprehensive Plan Community Involvement Committee, but all are eligible for a reappointment for another term through June 2015. Marty shared that she hoped each of the committee members are interested – but need a confirmation by September 15, 2013.
Linda Nettekoven stated that it is time to recruit new membership to the CIC. Both Peter Stark and Jason Barnstead-Long agreed. Stan had some hesitation based on the time involved to recruit, review applications and interview potential members. Marty shared that the committee was short at least four or more community-at-large members. The group decided to move forward on a recruitment.
Part 2 Process Update
Sandra Wood reported on the on the Part 2 process timeline, timing of the Proposed Draft to the Planning and Sustainability Commission and Task 5 – Implementation. Peter asked how long was the development of the original Comprehensive Plan process in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Sandra responded that it took at least four years if not longer. The original CIC was appointed by City Council in January 1976 and the Comprehensive Plan was adopted in 1980.
Part 2 Products and Public Comment
Michelle Kunec-North shared internal draft versions of the Part 2 products with the committee, focusing on the online Map App. The Map App is an online tool that will help the public, partners and City staff explore interrelated spatial issues, opportunities, and choices. It will be accessible to the public, allowing users to learn more about each topic or issue, turn layers on and off to compare issues and choices geographically, and leave comments. The Map App will also be used to support staff- or partner-facilitated community conversations around particular topics or choices.
Peter stated that a tool like the Map App should continue beyond this project and could be a continual public involvement tool. Peter continued that the Map App is another part of the story in this periodic review process. Peter encouraged it's use in schools with a "train the trainer" approach.
Linda noted that a bit of framing of the Map App – of how this fits will be necessary.
BPS staff met with Linda and Jason in a separate work session on the Map App, and is working to improve navigation, orientation, and accessibility of the Map App based on their feedback. Additional CIC feedback regarding the Map App or how it might be used during Part 2 outreach and involvement is appreciated.
The beta test version of the Map App can be found at: http://www.portlandbps.com/gis/cpmapp/
Please note that this version is not intended for public dissemination – we anticipate a full public launch at the end of September. This version is still underdevelopment and may have bugs in some web browsers. For the best experience, we recommend using Chrome to view the Map App at this time.
Diane Hale gave a brief overview of the ways that the public will be able to comment on the Working Draft Part 2. These include the Map App, online comment form, emails and letters, staff summaries of public discussion and comment cards. A database will be used to store and organize these comments, and reports will be made available to staff and the public. A survey might also be used to solicit feedback, depending on the format of the questions that are ultimately developed.
Part 2 Public Involvement Proposal 2013
Deborah Stein and Marty Stockton co-presented on the the public involvement proposal following the public release of the Part 2 products.
Three approaches for outreach and engagement:
- Small workshops: BPS staff would enlist partners to co-host 3-4 small workshops to zero in on specific issues/questions we need help with. Workshop locations would be selected based on the issues/questions which feedback is needed (e.g., if there are questions about a particular center, BPS staff would hold a workshop near that place). These workshops would be simple (minimal staffing and materials prep required). These workshops may not be spread around the city, since they are intended to focus on specific questions that are localized by nature. The advertising for these workshops could highlight the question(s) that will posed, so in effect these workshops will be similar to the topic-based workshops that were successful in Part 1 – they will attract people who are interested in the particular focus areas.
- Dispersed outreach: Enlist organizations that are interested in inviting us to introduce Part 2 products (the map app and CSP), show how the tools can be used, and walk through the Companion Guide to discuss one or more key concepts and questions. Depending on a group's interest and the amount of time it offers on its agenda, BPS staff can keep these presentations brief and introductory (15-20 minutes), or BPS staff can go into more depth with facilitated discussions (45-90 minutes or more). We anticipate approximately 15-20 of these opportunities. Staffing would be limited to one-two staff unless the group will be particularly large. Meetings can be tailored to the specific interests of the group, while using a standardized format provided by the Companion Guide. Staff would encourage interested people to provide feedback on line or through other channels, and answer questions about next steps.
- Capacity building: Staff would offer trainings to 4-5 community groups about the city's process to update land use and how community members can get involved. Curriculum would include a basic Comp Plan 101 and how to use the map app and Companion Guide. These trainings would be in the spirit of the DCL leadership development trainings and the bureau's current offerings of "the ABCs of Land Use." Groups would likely include staff of the DCL organizations, Living Cully EcoDistrict partners, and others. These are intended to build capacity of grassroots community members to be more informed participants in this process as well as other upcoming land use processes.
The group was favorable of the approach. Jason asked about outreach specifically to the Community Development Corporations (CDCs). Marty responded that Oregon Opportunity Network was definitely a group that staff would be reaching out to in the fall. Jason also wondered about involving the libaries. Marty stated that the libraries, specifically Midland Library, had already been discussed as a proposed small workshop location.
Public comment
There was no public comment.
Next steps
The next CIC meeting will be Wednesday, November 20, 2013 from 8:00 -10:00 a.m.
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Policy Expert Groups and Working Groups – September Meetings
- Economic Development PEG meeting, Wednesday, September 18, 11:30a.m. to 1:30p.m.; 1900 SW 4th Avenue, 7th Floor, Conference Room 7A
- Neighborhood Centers PEG meeting, Thursday, September 19, 8:00a.m. to 10:00p.m.; 1900 SW 4th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Conference Room 2500A
Note: PEG members will be contacted for a fall All-PEG meeting and community events.
Summer events – Comprehensive Plan Update outreach table
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However, some of the family also held estates at Walton-On-The-Hill in Lancashire from early times. "In the time of Edward the Confessor, Winestan, a Saxon, held Waletone; and soon after the Conquest a family named Waleton or Walton is mentioned as having possessions here. By a charter of the 2nd of John, the king granted all his land in Waleton to Richard de Mida, son of Gilbert de Waleton; and the same family is named in connexion with various legal acts in subsequent reigns. In the 15th century, Roger Walton died without male issue, and his two daughters carried their inheritance to their husbands." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
Simon de Wauton, Watton, Walton or Walthone (d. 1266), Bishop of Norwich was probably a native of Walton d'Eiville, Warwickshire and was "one of the clerks of King John, and received from him the church of St. Andrew, Hastings, on 9 April 1206, and two other livings in the two following years." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
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"Imagine a world where when the sun goes down, that's the end of your day as well. You can no longer see," says Jessica Matthews, the 25-year-old co-founder of Uncharted Play. "That is the reality for 1.3 billion people—practically one-fifth of the world—and one that we set out to solve."
The result is the Soccket, a soccer ball that harnesses kinetic energy with every kick to it and can power a lamp for three hours from just 30 minutes of play. It all started in 2008 when Matthews and Julia Silverman, juniors at Harvard University, were paired together in an engineering class for nonengineers. The professor challenged them to create something that combined art and science to ease a global problem.
"No one was paying attention to the importance of play. Amplifying existing enjoyment to make the world a better place," is how Matthews described their idea. But packing technology into an airless ball that looked and moved like a normal soccer ball was not easy. In fact, the engineers they approached at both MIT and Harvard at the time all said it was impossible. That just pushed the women even more.
First, they stuffed a shake-the-charge flashlight in a hamster ball and shook it—and sure enough the light was charged. Using this concept but in a soccer ball, they took their prototype out into the world to test it with the pros: 10-year-old kids playing in fields, at playgrounds and on slabs of concrete in Nigeria, South Africa, and Brazil, places where soccer is omnipresent but electricity is not.
Today, the Soccket is in its seventh iteration and is highly praised from both the developing world and engineers alike. Former President Bill Clinton even hailed Matthews at the Clinton Global Initiative. "If ever there was an innovator, she is it and she came up with an idea for clean energy that hardly anyone else has before!"
The ball is distributed in six countries through local nongovernmental organizations, who are making sure it gets to the communities that can benefit the most. Yahoo! followed the ball to the small village of Yohualichan in Puebla, Mexico. Besides having a shiny new ball to play with, the indigenous kids used it to do their homework. The women used it to cook and sew after sundown, helping them sustain their main source of income. From the kick of a ball, the reality for these families was flipped around and their lives were forever changed for the better.
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Comic-Con International: San Diego
Comic-Con International: San Diego began in 1970 when a group of comics, movie, and science fiction fans -- including the late Shel Dorf, Ken Krueger, and Richard Alf -- banded together to put on the first comic book convention in southern California. Comic-Con started as a one-day "minicon," called San Diego's Golden State Comic-Minicon, on March 21, 1970 at the U.S. Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego. The purpose of this singleday event—which included two special guests, Forrest J Ackerman and Mike Royer, and drew about 100 attendees—was to raise funds and generate interest for a larger convention. The success of the minicon led to the first full-fledged, three-day San Diego Comic-Con (called San Diego's Golden State Comic-Con), held August 1–3, 1970, at the U.S. Grant Hotel, with guests Ray Bradbury, Jack Kirby, and A. E. van Vogt. Over 300 attendees packed into the hotel's basement for that groundbreaking event, which featured a dealers' room, programs and panels, film screenings, and more: essentially, the model for every comic book convention to follow.
From the beginning, the founders of the show set out to include not only the comic books they loved
, but also other aspects of the popular arts that they enjoyed and felt deserved wider recognition, including films and science fiction/fantasy literature. After one more name change (San Diego's West Coast Comic Convention, in 1972), the show officially became the San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) in 1973 with the fourth annual event. In 1995, the non -profit event changed its name to Comic-Con International: San Diego (CCI).
The show's main home in the 1970s was the fondly remembered El Cortez Hotel in downtown San Diego. In 1979
, Comic-Con moved to the Convention and Performing Arts Center (CPAC), and stayed there until 1991, when the new San Diego Convention Center opened. Comic-Con has been at home in that facility for over two decades.
With attendance topping 130,000 in recent years—in a convention center facility that has maxed out in space—the event has grown to include satellite locations, including local hotels and outdoor parks. Programming events, games, anime, the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival and the Eisner Awards all take place outside of the Convention Center, creating a campus-type feel for the convention in downtown San Diego.
Over the years, Comic-Con has become the focal point for the world of comics conventions. The event continues to offer the complete convention experience: a giant Exhibit Hall (topping over 460,000 square feet in its current incarnation); a massive programming schedule (close to 700 separate events in 2014), featuring comics and all aspects of the popular arts, including hands-on workshops and educational and academic programming such as the Comics Arts Conference; anime and film screenings (including a separate film festival); games; the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the "Oscars" of the comics industry; a Masquerade costume competition with prizes and trophies; an Autograph Area; an Art Show; and Portfolio Reviews, bringing together aspiring artists with major companies.
Comic-Con has presented literally thousands of special guests at its conventions over the years, bringing comics creators science fiction and fantasy authors
, film and television directors, producers, and writers and creators from all aspects of the popular arts together with their fans for a fun and often times candid discussion of various art forms. The event has seen an amazing array of comics and book publishers in its Exhibit Hall over the years. Over it 's fourand-a-half decade-plus history, Comic-Con International has continually presented comic books and comic art to a growing audience. That love of the comics medium continues to be its guiding factor as the event moves toward its second half-century as the premier comic book and popular arts style convention in the world.
On November 10, 2018, Comic-Con President, COO and CFO John Rogers passed away. To read more about John and his longtime impact on the event and corporation, please click here.
WonderCon and APE, the Alternative Press Expo
San Diego Comic Convention—the corporate name of the non
-profit organization behind Comic-Con International: San Diego—also puts on WonderCon. From 1995 until 2014, Comic-Con also was in charge of APE, the Alternative Press Expo, in San Francisco (2002–2014) and San Jose (1995–2001).
APE, the Alternative Press Expo, started in San Jose in 1994. Founded by Dan Vado of SLG Publishing, the Alternative Press Expo was one of many shows across the United States that year that focused on independent comics. Vado's vision was to create an event that would spotlight small publishing companies, self-publishers, and creators working in the alternative and independent side of the comics industry. This show also allowed greater interaction between attendees and creators and added fuel to the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) comics movement growing around the world. That first APE tied into a series of like-minded gatherings around the country, coming off the "Spirits of Independence Tour" of Dave Sim, creator of Cerebus, and is one of only two conventions that survived and flourished beyond the first show.
Comic-Con International became involved with APE in its second year and has ran the show until 2014, maintaining the basic concept and feel that Dan Vado created. In 2000, it moved from San Jose to San Francisco, where it was held until 2014. Under Comic-Con, APE was on the forefront of the self-publishing movement. The 2014 event featured over 350 exhibitors, including some of the leading independent comics publishers, plus hundreds of creators and self-publishers
, and over 5,500 attendees. In addition to its Exhibit Hall, APE under Comic-Con featured a full programming schedule, special guests, hands-on workshops, and the Comic Creator Connection (CCC), a program featured at all of the Comic-Con sponsored events. The CCC pairs up aspiring comics writers and artists, in hopes of creating the next great comics collaboration. At the end of the show in 2014, Comic-Con returned the reins of the show to Dan Vado, who will put on a 2015 event in the San Jose area.
WonderCon was started in 1987 in Oakland, California, as "The Wonderful World of Comics Convention." The show was the brainchild of Bay Area comics retailer John Barrett, who called on a number of friends and associates to help realize his vision, including Bob Borden, Bryan Uhlenbrock, Rory Root, and Mike Friedrich
. With the third year, "WonderCon" became the official name of the convention. The original show included all the classic comics convention features: An Exhibit Hall with dealers selling old and new comics and other items, programming, anime screenings, and games. In 2001, after the 15th event, then co-owners Mike Friedrich and Joe Field (another prominent Bay Area comic retailer) decided they could no longer devote the time needed to maintain the quality of the show they helped create. They contacted Comic-Con International in hopes that the organization could fold WonderCon into the Comic-Con family of conventions.
Comic-Con took over the show in 2002 and moved it from Oakland to downtown San Francisco in 2003. After 15 years as a Bay Area event, WonderCon was forced to move to Anaheim in 2012, due to construction at its San Francisco home, the Moscone Center. Since 2012, the event—now called Comic-Con International Presents WonderCon Anaheim—has been held in southern California, at the Anaheim Convention Center. While it is still the hope to one day return the show to its San Francisco and Bay Area roots, WonderCon Anaheim has continued to grow in its southern California home.
WonderCon Anaheim has continued to grow in its southern California home. In 2016, WonderCon moved to Los Angeles for one year while the Anaheim Convention Center was undergoing construction on a new building. The show returned to Anaheim in 2017, and in 2018, 66,000 fans packed the newly expanded Anaheim Convention Center from all over the globe.
WonderCon is the sister show to Comic-Con, embracing all the main aspects of SDCC, including comics, movies, TV, animation, the Masquerade, and more. The event has grown in all aspects over the years: more attendees, more exhibitors, more programming, and more fun. In its current Anaheim-based incarnation, WonderCon continues to be a must-attend event on the comic book convention schedule.
Other Events
Over the years, San Diego Comic Convention has presented other conventions and events, including Comic Book Expo, a retail trade show for the comics industry, and ProCon, a convention for comic book industry creative professionals. In 1991, Comic-Con put on a separate convention, Con/Fusion, billed as "a fusion of the best aspects of a science fiction convention with the best aspects of a comic book convention."
Comic-Con International is the home of the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the comic book equivalent of the "Oscars." The Eisner Awards, named after famous comics creator
, Will Eisner (The Spirit, Contract with God), who is regarded as the father of the modern graphic novel, started at Comic-Con in 1987. For the awards' first two decades, Eisner himself was on stage to present the awards to each year's recipients. The Eisners are given out each year at Comic-Con International: San Diego in a gala event held the Friday evening of the convention at a local hotel. The awards feature more than two-dozen categories covering the best publications and creators of the previous year. A blue-ribbon committee selects nominees from thousands of entries submitted by publishers and creators, which are then voted on by members of the comic book industry.
Comic-Con International also runs the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Awards, an annual event featured at the San Diego convention that allows fans to nominate their favorite comic book stores from around the world. The prestigious award goes to those retailers who have done an outstanding job of supporting the comics medium, both in the community and within the industry at large. Visionary comic creator Will Eisner approached Comic-Con in the mid-1990s with the idea for this award. It's designed to acknowledge and celebrate the incredible contribution retailers make to the comic book industry by providing that crucial link between creator and reader in getting comics into the hands of the public. The award was named in his honor. Over the years, comic book stores from across the United States and around the globe—including Australia, Canada, Holland, Israel, and Spain—have won the award.
Comic-Con has been the host and supporting convention of the Comics Arts Conference (CAC), the nation's leading academic conference about comics and comic art. The conference began in 1992 when Peter M. Coogan, a graduate student at Michigan State University, and Randy Duncan, Communication Department chair at Henderson State University, decided it was time for an academic conference devoted solely to the study of comics and to hold it at Comic-Con to facilitate the involvement of comics professionals and fans. Over the past two decades, the CAC has continued to grow at Comic-Con, offering programs and presentations all four days of the event. It has also added a second conference as part of WonderCon each year.
Since 2000, San Diego has been the home of the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival (CCI-IFF), a four-day event that highlights the best in genre-related filmmaking. Created by Comic-Con, the festival includes action/adventure, animation, comics-oriented, documentary, horror/suspense, humor, and science fiction/fantasy short and long films, features prizes and trophies and is judged by a panel of film industry luminaries. Some CCI-IFF films have gone on to greater glory with distribution and creative deals at major studios for the films and filmmakers.
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This website contains much more information about all of the above. Click on the links where available to read more about the featured topic. Comic-Con also published a coffee
-table book in 2009 to celebrate its 40th anniversary, Comic-Con: 40 Years of Artists, Writers, Fans & Friends. The book is a 208-page hardbound treasure trove of articles and over 600 photos and pieces of art on the history of the show, plus APE, WonderCon, and much more. The book is on sale at both Comic-Con (at the Comic-Con Merch store) and WonderCon (at our T-shirt booth).
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Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh (hô chē mĬn), 1890–1969, Vietnamese nationalist leader, president of North Vietnam (1954–69), and one of the most influential political leaders of the 20th cent. His given name was Nguyen That Thanh. In 1911 he left Vietnam, working aboard a French liner. He later lived in London and in the United States during World War I before going to France near the end of the war. There he became involved in the French socialist movement and was (1920) a founding member of the French Communist party. He studied revolutionary tactics in Moscow, and, as a Comintern member, was sent (1925–27) to Guangzhou, China. While in East Asia, he organized Vietnamese revolutionaries and founded the Communist party of Indochina (later the Vietnamese Communist party). He also established a training institute that attracted many Vietnamese students, where he taught a unique blend of Marxism-Leninism and Confucian-inspired virtues. In the 1930s, Ho lived mainly in Moscow and China. He finally returned to Vietnam after the outbreak of World War II, organized a Vietnamese independence movement (the Viet Minh), and raised a guerrilla army to fight the Japanese.
Ho proclaimed the republic of Vietnam in Sept., 1945, and later agreed that it would remain an autonomous state within the French Union. Differences with the French, however, soon led (1946) to an open break. Warfare lasted until 1954, culminating in the French defeat at Dienbienphu. After the Geneva Conference (1954), which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel, Ho became the first president of the independent republic of North Vietnam. The accord also provided for elections to be held in 1956, aimed at reuniting North and South Vietnam; however, South Vietnam, backed by the United States, refused to hold the elections. The reason was generally held to be that Ho's popularity would have led to reunification under Communist rule. In succeeding years, Ho consolidated his government in the North. He organized a guerrilla movement in the South, the National Liberation Front, or Viet Cong, which was technically independent of North Vietnam, to win South Vietnam from the successive U.S.-supported governments there (see Vietnam War).
See biographies by J. Lacouture (1968), D. Halberstam (1971), J. Sainteny (1972), C. Fenn (1974), D. O. Lloyd (1986), and W. J. Duiker (2000).


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News flash: President Barack Obama believes in Santa Claus. We can think of no better explanation for his press conference, the last of the year, on Friday.
In talking with reporters, Obama proclaimed 2014 "can be a breakthrough year for America." He was speaking of his optimism about the economy next year.
It is true the U.S. economy seems to be performing well, at least compared to most of the president's term in office. But hundreds of billions of dollars in "stimulus" spending by government had little or nothing to do with that.
If anything, the economy has rebounded slightly in spite of the Obama administration, not because of it. And next year may prove to be a breakdown in the family economies of tens of millions of Americans.
Already, many are finding the national health care takeover – Obamacare – is hazardous to their financial health. Millions of people have had insurance policies canceled, and been told they have to buy new, more expensive ones approved by the government.
It will get worse next fall, when the one-year delay in Obamacare compliance for businesses expires. Even government analysts predict tens of millions of working men and women will lose health care coverage provided by their employers.
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Scrapbook Supply Savvy: Cut Cardstock Buttons using Decorative-Edge Scissors
Add fashionable flair to your scrapbook pages using decorative-edge scissors and stamped cardstock (or patterned paper) from your stash. You have a world of button bits waiting to be made, and you'll also be making the most of those leftover scrapbooking supplies. Here's how it's done:
1. Stamp cardstock.
2. Cut square using decorative scissors.
3. Punch holes, and thread.
Here's how it looks on a finished layout:
Dinner at a Diner by Kelly Purkey.Supplies: Cardstock, adhesive, brads, pen, and stickers: American Crafts; Patterned paper: BasicGrey, Hambly Screen Prints, and Studio Calico; Decorative scissors and punches: Fiskars Americas; Stamps: Hero Arts and Studio Calico; Other: Decorative tape and ink.
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In Australia, the washing up fairy is a mythical creature. People leave their dishes unwashed overnight, and lo and behold, the next morning the dishes are clean thanks to the washing up fairy.
Sadly, she (I assume it's a she) is more often noted in her absence than her presence. As in "The washing up fairy didn't come, I'll have to do the dishes now."
An example of her being mentioned:
Her theory is simple – we must replace the behaviours we don't want with those we do. For example, leaving dirty dishes on the kitchen bench for the washing-up fairy to tidy should be replaced with loading the dirty dishes in the dishwasher.
Her existence has been documented neither by Wiktionary nor Urban Dictionary.
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Waiting out the winter in Lebanon
Last winter was bitter for Hassan Ahmad and his family of 11. After they fled their home in Damascus, they found shelter in Lebanon, in a cramped two-room apartment with a leaky ceiling, no doors and no hot water.
"A relative of mine offered us these rooms," says Ahmad, whose Damascus home was destroyed by fighting. "But our kitchen and bath turn into an oven in the summer and a swamp in the winter."
- More than 35,000 Palestinian refugees formally living in Syria have fled to neighbouring Lebanon.
- 19 host gatherings and nine surrounding localities have been prepared for the winter.
- 54 infrastructure projects in 22 of the most vulnerable Palestinian gatherings and seven surrounding towns are constructing water tanks, heaters, washbasins, and fully functioning latrines.
- Project implemented by UNDP and UN-Habitat; and donors include Government of Germany, the Swiss Agency for Development and Coordination, and the US Department of State.
And since his son recently married, the tiny apartment in a neighborhood of other Palestinians refugees has begun to feel even more cramped.
Like Ahmad and his family, more than 35,000 Palestinians--and some Syrians--have sought refuge in Lebanon's 42 so-called Palestinian gatherings*, where the population has now reached 110,000. Originally built during the early years of the Palestinian exodus, which occurred between 1948 and 1950 - and during the Lebanese civil war from 1975 to 1990, the gatherings do not officially fall under the domain of any municipality. And with no authority providing infrastructure and services, the people living there are some of the most vulnerable host communities in the country.
Since 2012, UNDP and UN-Habitat have joined efforts to improve services, infrastructure and overall living conditions in these communities across Lebanon. So far, the project has helped rehabilitate and modernize more than 300 shelters in time for the bitter winter. They have now been outfitted with water tanks, heaters, washbasins, and fully functioning latrines. In addition to improving the shelters, 54 urgent infrastructure projects in 22 of the most vulnerable host communities and seven surrounding towns have improved the provision of water, sewage services, solid waste management, road networks, storm water drainage, and electricity.
"So far, we have helped over 2,000 refugees from Syria living in the most vulnerable gatherings to improve the conditions in their shelters, as well as around 40,000 residents and Lebanese inhabitants who now have better access to basic urban services," says UNDP's Nancy Hilal. "With more than 30 Palestinian families from Syria crossing the Lebanese border every day, we are working on expanding our projects to support more families in desperate need of shelter and basic urban services."
Not only do the projects improve living conditions for refugees in shelters, they also improve cohesion and relations between the Palestinian refugees, local Lebanese communities and surrounding municipalities. By encouraging active participation and collaboration, the projects aim to mitigate tensions between refugees and their hosts, and between the gatherings and the surrounding neighborhoods.
"Because we also target the Palestinian and Lebanese host communities, our projects have helped reduce tensions between original and arriving dwellers, and between the Lebanese and Palestinian communities," Hilal says about the main social impact of the project.
For Ahmad's family, the UNDP projects have begun to make a difference. The family now has a brand new room, doors and windows, and a new roof over their heads. This not only gives family members more privacy, but will also keep them warm during the coming winter months.
"We have hot water this year and we can finally cook in our kitchen" Hassan says, looking up at the new, waterproof ceiling of his home. "We will outlast this winter."
*Palestinian gathering: neighborhood or community of Palestinian refugees


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A history / reference book without an index! What's the thinking (or lack of it) behind that?
The British writer Herbie Sykes has lived in Turin for a few years now. He's absorbed all things Italian and after his excellent 'The Eagle of Canavese', (about the little known double Giro winner Franco Balmamion), Sykes has been given the task by Rouleur of writing the first full English language history of the Giro d'Italia. It's an entertaining and intelligent narrative that explores the chronology of the Giro with it's winners and losers - but also the national psyche of Italy itself throughout the 20th century and on in to the 21st.
Over the years Le Tour has grown into a marketing tool to project a version of France to the world - a sometimes exciting but generally carefully controlled exercise in class and grace. In contrast the Giro has always been most important for the home fans. It's a celebration of Italy's passion, tradition, pride, unpredictability and the revolving mirror of honour and what Italians might call gamesmanship but what us Anglo Saxons call chicanery.
Of course from the very start the story is that of big characters. The first major star was Guiseppe Gerbi 'The Red Devil'. Sykes describes him as 'a destructive, wayward wrong'un... his father handed him a bike to keep him out of trouble' and judging from his photograph Gerbi looks like a truly troubling opponent. Even with nails in your back pocket to scatter in your breakaway or bribe money to offer opponents (both ploys of Gerbi) you would need to be tough as, much like the Tour, the Giro's early format was an exercise in masochism.
According to Sykes 1914 saw 'the most sadistic giro of all' with it's 3,162 kilometres squeezed into just 8 stages with an average stage length of 'a biblical 396 kilometres' undertaken, of course, on single speed bikes weighing 15kg. Sixty percent of the riders failed to complete the first stage and stage eight encountered a blizzard so thick that the leading rider, 58 minutes ahead of the bunch, simply vanished in the whirling snow - to be discovered three days later sheltering in a barn with a fever. In these days of team cars and fresh wheels it's chastening to learn just how many major efforts were thwarted by punctures on the dirt roads. One poor soul crested a major climb minutes in the lead only to have three successive punctures on the descent which puts Andy Schleck's 2011 TDF 'chain gate' incident into perspective.
Of course tales of attrition and the major stars are standard fare for grand tour histories. Certainly all the greats are covered as the race wends it way through the century: Brunero, Binda, Bartali, Coppi, Gimondi, Moser.. but Sykes has sections on and interviews with forgotten heroes like Tino Colletti and Italo Zilioli who clear up myths and reflect on the failures as well as successes of the Giro's rich history.
The accompanying photographs are also superb. You will never see more raffish and stylish riders than Beppe Saronni and Felice Gimondi. Style is all important to Italians as Sykes explained an interview with Podium cafe in 2011. 'Italy it goes without saying is a beautiful eclectic country. Though railing endlessly against the state is evidently a national obsession, the Italians, unlike say the English, in general retain a profound attachment to and pride in their Bel Paese, their 'beautiful land'. In Italy style - or at least the appearance of style - invariably trumps crude, prosaic substance. This overly developed sense of the aesthetic is made manifest not only in the ways Italians dress, present and behave themselves, but in the food they eat, the products they design, in the municipal buildings and cities they inhabit.'
Indeed Sykes's description of the horror Italians felt when the Flemish cyclist Pollentier scraped the 1977 Giro is palpable. It was a distaste not so much for the nationality of the winner (The American Andy Hampsten won with such guts in 1988 that he'll never have to buy his own drink in Italy ever again) but the winner's lack of charm and panache. 'Little, bald, pasty and monosyllabic (albeit in five different languages) Pollentier had about him the air not of a thoroughbred racing cyclist but rather that of a swingeing primary school janitor or a pedantic bus conductor... Italy was incredulous. Fair enough, it had been one thing for Gimondi, Zilioli and the like to be beaten by the great Merckx, quite another entirely for a Flemish water -carrier like Pollentier to humiliate the new pin up boys of Italian cycling."
The Italians haven't been humiliated very often it has to be said. Merckx had a very strange drug incident when his grip on the Giro became bad for business but Hinault spread his three wins over 6 years which appeased the Tifosi. Although, of course, I don't doubt even the Tifosi would've thought twice before messing with The Badger dressed in pink. You will flip the page quickly when you come across the photo of Hinault in the Maglia Rosa sporting a glare on his face that would freeze Mt Etna. Italian riders would call a truce in trying to nobble each other only as long as it took to nobble any outsider with the temerity to cross the alps and try for the pink jersey. It's reminiscent of the scene in 'The Italian job' when Charlie Croker and his gang meet some 'gentlemen' on a mountain road and lose their lovely Jaguars over the cliff - except with drugs and dirty tricks taking the place of the digger. For many years primarily a national race with plenty of national riders spread over trade teams, 'Italia' would usually come before your team.
Conversely, from it's start in 1909 the Giro has represented a country that has never truly been unified; a rich North versus a poor South and both with a healthy disinclination to obey Rome in the middle. After years of banking corruption and tax avoidance under the rule of the clown prince Berlusconi it's easy to forget that these are relatively prosperous times for Italy. For most of the 20th century through natural disaster (1907 saw an earthquake and tsunami at Messina which claimed 100,000 lives.), poverty, war and political strife Italy was a basket case lurching from one crisis to another.
The Giro had to pick itself up and then bolster Italy's national sense of pride after the First World War, interference by Mussolini and the mental and material devastation of the Second World War. Collective pride is fundamental to Italy however disparate the regions may appear in relation to each other. Unfortunately the success that engenders pride in Italian cycling has long meant pharmaceuticals and these, combined with twisting the race itself to favour Italians riders, has meant a drop in relevance for the Giro on the international circuit it is only now just beginning to address.
The first edition of 'The Maglia Rosa' was published in May 2011 as that tragic Giro wended it's way to it's embarrassing conclusion. At the time of writing the 2013 Giro is halfway through. With the battle against doping still progressing but seemingly producing clean Pro Tour winners for the first time since...er, well ever - and a new race director finally finding his feet this year's Giro has the action and choice of scenery that are producing a race that the 2013 Tour may well be hard pressed to match. Even then the Giro still won't be out of the woods.
Sykes has included new closing chapters for the second edition which discuss where the Giro is now heading. The UCI, in a scenario reminiscent of the 1994 World Cup when the USA asked why football matches couldn't be spilt into 'four quarters' to suit the sponsors has made ridiculous suggestions (with Sky television eyeing future rights no doubt) to cut both the Giro and the Vuelta to two weeks each to accommodate new lucrative markets on far flung continents within the new and expanding Pro Tour calendar. This will hopefully fail.
Wild, unkept and unpredictable the Giro d' Italia is the Pyrenees to the Tour de France's Alps. The Italians need it and it seems that we need it too. Sykes is optimistic that the Giro will flourish. 'Through it's frequent peaks and troughs it prevails. It will continue to do so because it remains by a distance the most beautiful, and the most captivating, of cycling's great stage races.... Try, at least once in your life, to experience it for yourself." . Rouleur call Syke's book the 'definitive' guide to the Giro d'Italia. I agree with them although I also have to admit that I haven't read either volume of Bill and Carol McGann's also critically acclaimed The Story of the Giro d'Italia: A Year-by-Year History of the Tour of Italy.
Excellent and compelling like the race it describes, an index would make it nigh on perfect
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Make and model: Maglia Rosa by Herbie Sykes
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Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Like me if your knowledge of the Giro was scanty this will turn you into a proper know-all. If you think you know it all already from reading accounts in the original Italian then this will still be a useful crammer - and you need to stop drinking coffee and get out more.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
Given it's quality I can see it going to a third edition but I have to get on my old hobby horse and moan about a lack of index. There is a very useful statistics list at the back and the book is laid out well enough but Rouleur should consider that one day in the near future books like these might form part of academic course and an index is an essential part of a serious tome like this - the book's spare wheel. Like a spare wheel it's very annoying to find it not there in the rare occasions you need it.
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