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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Facebook looking to expand Credits to other gaming portals | Joystiq
Facebook's thick, sinewy tendrils continue to twist and worm their way through every facet of the internet's expansive infrastructure, as the social giant has unceremoniously announced plans to expand the Facebook Credits system to other sites. Sandwiched between payment system and graph API updates on the Platform Update developers blog, the brief entry names Gamehouse's Collapse! Blast as the project's initial testbed, adding that interested developers should get in touch.
Rather than using Paypal or their credit cards, users now sign into Collapse! Blast via Facebook, at which point their existing Facebook Credits can be spent on virtual goods. Should the expansion progress beyond these initial testing phases, Facebook Credits may provide appsperience developers with a solution that's easier and cheaper to implement than a proprietary one. Facebook's massive existing install base doesn't hurt things either, and since adoption is the key to standardization, maybe this is the first step towards a Star Trek-esque credits-based utopian future society.
Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/24/facebook-looking-to-expand-credits-to-other-gaming-portals/
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'Jurassic Park' has one of scariest scenes ever
"Jurassic Park" combines two of America's favorite things: Dinosaurs and theme parks. Now the trilogy of Steven Spielberg films is coming out on Blu-ray Oct. 25. Here's a look at some of the best moments from the 1993 film that remains the best of the three.
First sight of the dinosaurs
Imagine studying something your entire life and thinking you'd never see it in person. That's the situation for paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), who've been brought to the soon-to-open dinosaur theme park by billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough). When they first see the dinosaurs in the flesh and realize that their careers aren't just dusty words on paper ("They're moving in herds ... they DO move in herds!"), and that majestic music crashes in, you know this movie's off to a great start. (Watch the scene here.)
Nedry gets eaten
Hello, Newman. Wayne Knight as nerdy Dennis Nedry is one of those villains that you can't wait to see get his comeuppance. He endangers the lives of everyone on the island by messing with the park's power so he can try and get stolen embryos to the mainland. He even insults the dinosaurs when he runs into them ("Eh, no wonder you're extinct"), and by then, man, are we rooting for a good chompdown. The film delivers. (Watch the scene here.)
Kids hide in the kitchen
Tim and Lex, the two kids of the film, are sometimes annoying ? the less said about Lex saving the day with her UNIX knowledge the better ? but unquestionably necessary. And when they're caught by a couple of raptors in the park's kitchen, you can't help but put yourself in their shoes and try and plot an escape route. The mirrored cabinets make things even more spooky. Forget Jason and Freddy, this is one of the most terrifying scenes in movie history. (Watch the scene here.)
'Clever girl'
"Jurassic Park" could have coasted on its dinosaur deaths alone, but it's actually packed full of great lines, including "When the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down the pirates don't eat the tourists." One of the best comes when game warden Robert Muldoon, played brilliantly by British actor Bob Peck, meets his end. Focused on a raptor ahead of him, he realizes too late that another is sneaking up on him from the side. His last word is a compliment to the victor. "Clever girl," he says, and then one of the film's best and most underrated characters is gone. (Watch the scene here.)
Lawyer on toilet
Oh, yes, it goes for the easy laugh. Audiences hate lawyers, and for one to die on a toilet being eaten by a dinosaur gives us a little bit of sweet revenge. But it's still a great scene. The T. Rex pops the vulnerable attorney into his mouth like we might grab a raspberry off a bush. (Watch the scene here.)
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Gael Fashingbauer Cooper is TODAY.com's movies editor.
? 2011 MSNBC Interactive.? Reprints
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Key Equipment Finance Names Shinji S. Muto as Middle Market ...
Key Equipment Finance Names Shinji S. Muto as Middle Market Lease Manager, Metro NY Area
Key Equipment Finance, one of the nation?s largest bank-held equipment finance companies and an affiliate of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY), today named Shinji S. Muto as middle market lease manager for the metro New York area. In this role, Muto will focus on direct sales to companies in the New York metropolitan region with more than $75 million in annual revenue.
?Shinji is a senior business development professional with a lengthy track record in direct origination and expansion of new accounts,? said Peter K. Bullen, senior vice president and national sales manager for Key Equipment Finance. ?He has more than 16 years of sales and management experience in the financial services sector, and I look forward to working with him to serve the equipment financing needs of companies in the New York metro area.?
Prior to joining Key Equipment Finance, Muto was senior director of business development for The Receivables Exchange. Previously, he was vice president for GE Commercial Finance and vice president for Citigroup ? Citi Bankers Leasing. He has also held various sales and management positions with Citigroup ? Citi Commercial Equipment Finance, GE Capital ? Commercial Equipment Financing, First Union, and Citibank.
Muto has a bachelor?s degree in business administration from Bryant University.
About Key Equipment Finance
Key Equipment Finance is one of the largest bank-based equipment finance providers in the U.S. The company provides tailored equipment lease and finance solutions for small-to-large commercial clients and government entities. Through its vendor services unit, equipment finance programs are developed for manufacturers, distributors and resellers in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Key Equipment Finance specializes in the technology, healthcare, renewable energy and corporate aviation markets, as well as other capital assets. Additionally, Key Equipment Finance provides lease capital markets support for corporations looking to optimize risk and revenue.
Headquartered outside Denver, Colorado, Key Equipment Finance manages nearly $9 billion in assets and originates over $3 billion of equipment financing annually. The company has management and operations bases in Albany, New York; London, England; Frankfurt, Germany; Madrid, Spain; Milan, Italy; Paris, France and Toronto, Canada. The company, which supports clients in over 30 countries, employs approximately 575 people worldwide and has been in the equipment financing business for over 35 years. Additional information regarding Key Equipment Finance, its products and services can be obtained online at www.KEFonline.com.
About KeyCorp
Cleveland-based KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) is one of the nation?s largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $92 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally. For more information, visit www.key.com.
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ANA's Boeing 787 Dreamliner touches down after first international flight (video)
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US-North Korea nuclear talks start in Geneva (AP)
GENEVA ? U.S. and North Korean diplomats opened talks Monday on Pyongyang's nuclear program, the second direct encounter between the two sides in less than three months.
Mobbed by reporters as they left their lakeside hotel for a first meeting at the United States' U.N. mission in Geneva, American diplomats declined to reveal their goals for the two-day talks.
Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. top envoy on Pyongyang, said the two sides hadn't met Sunday despite staying ? by design or coincidence ? in the same hotel. He was accompanied by Glyn Davies, the U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, who is taking over the negotiating brief in future talks.
Their opposite on North Korea's delegation is First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan.
The parties met for two hours in the morning before breaking to have lunch separately. After a three-hour halt the talks resumed for a couple of hours in the afternoon. The Koreans then returned at night for dinner at the U.S. mission.
Diplomats were tightlipped about the discussions, revealing little more than their coffee and meal schedules and other logistics.
"We had initial presentations of our respective positions. I think these were useful presentations," American diplomat Clifford Hart told a throng of journalists outside the U.S. mission Monday.
The two sides are scheduled to reconvene at North Korea's mission on Tuesday.
U.S. diplomats have previously said they want North Korea to adhere to a 2005 agreement it reneged on requiring verifiable denuclearization in exchange for better relations with its Asian neighbors.
North Korea's closest ally China urged Pyongyang to improve its strained ties with United States and South Korea, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.
Beijing wants to revive the stalled six-nation disarmament negotiations, which also include South Korea, Japan and Russia. North Korea walked out on the talks in 2009 ? and exploded a second nuclear-test device ? but now wants to re-engage. Last year Pyongyang was also blamed for two military attacks on South Korea that heightened tensions on the peninsula.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lashed out at North Korea on Monday for "reckless and provocative" acts, in an opinion piece published by Japan's Yomiuri newspaper.
He wrote that Washington and Tokyo share common challenges in the Asia-Pacific. "These include North Korea, which continues to engage in reckless and provocative behavior and is developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, which pose a threat not just to Japan but to the entire region," he said.
Separately, the U.N.'s top relief official said Monday that the nuclear talks in Switzerland should avoid discussing humanitarian assistance to the chronically hungry Asian country.
Valerie Amos, who visited North Korea last week for 5 days, said it was "not appropriate" for the two sides to discuss humanitarian aid which "must be kept separate from a political agenda."
The U.N. is calling on countries to provide $218 million in emergency aid to North Korea.
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John Heilprin contributed to this report.
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Boom times fuel Argentine president's re-election
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez flashes a victory sign while celebrating with supporters after general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Fernandez has been re-elected by a landslide. Exit polls say Fernandez has gotten 54 to 55 percent of the votes cast in Sunday's election, the widest victory margin for any Argentine president since democracy was restored in the country three decades ago. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez flashes a victory sign while celebrating with supporters after general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Fernandez has been re-elected by a landslide. Exit polls say Fernandez has gotten 54 to 55 percent of the votes cast in Sunday's election, the widest victory margin for any Argentine president since democracy was restored in the country three decades ago. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, center, cries as she's hugged by her son Maximo and her daughter Florencia, left, after general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Fernandez has been re-elected by a landslide. Exit polls say Fernandez has gotten 54 to 55 percent of the votes cast in Sunday's election, the widest victory margin for any Argentine president since democracy was restored in the country three decades ago. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Supporters of Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez celebrate her re-election after general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. Fernandez has been re-elected by a landslide. Exit polls say Fernandez has gotten 54 percent to 55 percent of the votes cast in Sunday's election, the widest victory margin for any Argentine president since democracy was restored in the country three decades ago. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez speaks to supporters after general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. Fernandez has been re-elected by a landslide. Exit polls say Fernandez has gotten 54 to 55 percent of the votes cast in Sunday's election, the widest victory margin for any Argentine president since democracy was restored in the country three decades ago. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Supporters of Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez celebrate her re-election after general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. Fernandez has been re-elected by a landslide. Exit polls say Fernandez has gotten 54 percent to 55 percent of the votes cast in Sunday's election, the widest victory margin for any Argentine president since democracy was restored in the country three decades ago. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ? President Cristina Fernandez has been re-elected with one of the widest victory margins in Argentine history by persuading voters that she alone, even without her late powerbroker husband, is best able to keep spreading the wealth of an economic boom.
Fernandez had nearly 54 percent of the votes cast in Sunday's election, with nearly 97 percent of polling stations reporting nationwide. Her nearest challenger got just under 17 percent.
"We need everyone to comprehend ... that because of the popular will and this political decision, you can count on me to continue deepening this national project for the 40 million Argentines," she vowed in her victory speeches, first before hundreds and then thousands of supporters Sunday night.
The goal of this "project" is to profoundly change society by using Argentina's resources to raise incomes, create jobs, restore the country's industrial capacity, reduce poverty and maintain an economic boom that has seen the country grow and reduce poverty.
Since she and her predecessor as president, husband Nestor Kirchner, first moved into Argentina's presidential palace in 2003, the income gap between the country's rich and poor has been reduced by nearly half. Meanwhile, according to the International Monetary Fund's numbers for 2002-2011, Argentina's real GDP has grown 94 percent, the fastest in the Western Hemisphere and about twice the rate of Brazil, which also has grown substantially, economist Mark Weisbrot said.
U.S. President Barack "Obama could take a lesson from this," said Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington. "It's an old-fashioned message of democracy: You deliver what you promise and people vote for you. It's kind of forgotten here in the U.S."
Fernandez noted that she is Latin America's first woman to be re-elected as president, but described the victory as bittersweet, since Kirchner, who died of a heart attack last Oct. 27, wasn't there to share it.
"This man who transformed Argentina led us all and gave everything he had and more," she said. "Without him, without his valor and courage, it would have been impossible to get to this point."
Thousands of jubilant, flag-waving people crowded into the capital's historic Plaza de Mayo to watch on a huge TV screen as she spoke from a downtown hotel, where her supporters interrupted so frequently with their chants that she lectured them as a mother would her children: "The worst that people can be is small. In history, you always must be bigger still ? more generous, more thoughtful, more thankful."
Then, she showed her teeth, vowing to protect Argentina from outside threats or special interests.
"This woman isn't moved by any interest. The only thing that moves her is profound love for the country. Of that I'm responsible," Fernandez said.
Later, she appeared in the plaza as well, giving a rousing, second victory speech, her amplified voice echoing through the capital as she called on Argentina's youth to dedicate themselves to social projects nationwide.
Fernandez was on track to win a larger share of votes than any president since Argentina's democracy was restored in 1983, when Raul Alfonsin was elected with 52 percent.
Her 36-point-plus lead over Gov. Hermes Binner, who finished second, was wider than any in history save the 1973 victory of her strongman hero, Juan Domingo Peron ? if you count, as many Peronists do, both the 30-point margin he won on the Peronist ticket with his wife Isabel and an additional 7 percent Peron won on a second ticket with a different vice presidential candidate, said Leandro Morganfield, a historian at the University of Buenos Aires.
Fernandez's political coalition also appeared to gain strength in Congress, where it will need to form new alliances to regain the control it lost in 2009. At play were 130 seats in the lower house and 24 in the Senate. Most of the nine governor's races contested Sunday also went to her party.
Fernandez overcame high negative ratings early in her presidency by softening her usually combative tone and proving her ability to command loyalty or respect from an unruly political elite. But she also did it by persuading voters that she will stay the course she and her husband began taking eight years ago.
Fernandez, 58, chose her 48-year-old, guitar-playing, hoodie-wearing economy minister, Amado Boudou, as her running mate and potential successor.
Together, they have championed an Argentine solution to countries facing a debt crisis: nationalize private pensions and use central bank reserves to increase government spending rather than impose austerity measures, and force bondholders to suffer before ordinary citizens.
The candidates debated over how prepared Argentina is for a global slowdown. Declining commodity and trade revenue will make it harder to raise incomes to keep up with inflation. Argentina's central bank is under pressure to spend reserves to maintain the peso's value against the dollar, while also guarding against currency shocks that could threaten Argentina's all-important trade with Brazil.
Fernandez's opposition accused her of failing to contain inflation and crime, of manipulating economic data and using government power to quell criticism.
But most voters didn't seem to care. When Fernandez is inaugurated Dec. 10, her Front for Victory coalition will become the first political bloc to begin a third consecutive presidential term since 1928, when President Hipolito Yrigoyen of the Radical Civic Union took office, only to be toppled by a military coup two years later, Morganfield said.
Fernandez said "we have to think of a different country, where whoever comes builds on top of what's already been done. That's the Argentina I dream of, where we have continuity of national political projects for the country."
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Michael Warren can be reached at www.twitter.com/mwarrenap
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