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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Businessman hopes to lead Colorados back to power in Paraguay
ASUNCION (Reuters) - A wealthy Paraguayan businessman will lead the rightist Colorado Party's efforts to regain the presidency in an April election after four years on the margins of power.
Millionaire Horacio Cartes, 56, a political newcomer with business interests ranging from banking to tobacco, won a primary election on Sunday with support of about 60 percent, according to preliminary party results.
Cartes launched his candidacy on a conciliatory note, calling for party unity and vowing his government would be committed to fighting the poverty that afflicts almost half of Paraguay's population.
"There's no point having huge buildings and roads if almost 50 percent of the people are still poor," he said at his campaign base, accompanied by his two daughters and his running mate for vice president, former governor Juan Afara.
The Colorado Party governed the landlocked, soy-exporting South American country for more than six decades without interruption, until 2008 when it was defeated by left-leaning former Roman Catholic bishop, Fernando Lugo.
Lugo was ousted by Congress in a controversial impeachment earlier this year that left the presidency in the hands of Liberal Party politician Federico Franco until the April 21 election.
Cartes won the Colorado presidential nomination after a long campaign that saw him win over party leaders initially skeptical about him because of his lack of political experience.
His main rival for the presidency looks set to be the center-right Liberal Party's candidate Efrain Alegre. Opinion polls show the two parties in a tight race, with Alegre - who has been campaigning for several months - slightly ahead.
That could change following Sunday's Colorado primary.
"There's a good chance the Colorados will return to government next year because, in contrast with the last election, the Colorado Party's going to be united and the opposition divided," said political analyst Jose Carlos Rodriguez.
"The Colorado Party has found someone with funding, a competitive candidate but with a lot of doubts because he isn't a politician. We don't have much idea about his agenda and he has some negative issues in his past," he added.
Cartes was accused and later acquitted of illegal foreign currency deals during the 35-year dictatorship of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner. He has denied any wrongdoing.
On the political left, Lugo plans to run for a Senate seat representing the Frente Guasu coalition.
(Writing by Helen Popper; editing by Todd Eastham)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/businessman-hopes-lead-colorados-back-power-paraguay-020019903.html
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When Japanese singles envy their married friends
goo Ranking published the results of a survey into when people envy their married friends.
Demographics
Over the 5th and 6th of October 2012 1,064 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 58.2% of the sample were female, 10.5% in their teens, 13.7% in their twenties, 26.6% in their thirties, 27.6% in their forties, 11.7% in their fifties, and 9.9% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
Although this survey applied to both past and current moments, I have as I usually do translated everything in the present tense as it looks better that way.
I only really felt envy with regards to the second 3=, 6, 16 and the third 22. However, now I feel pride that many people appear to be envious (in a good way, I hasten to add) of us.
Ranking result
Read more on: goo ranking,marriageQ: When do you get envious of your married friends? (Sample size=1,064)
Rank ? Score 1 When I see them looking happy at weekends taking their kids out as a family 100 2 When I attend their wedding ceremony 62.4 3= When all my close friends end up married 54.7 3= When I just cannot find a boyfriend/girlfriend 54.7 5 When I hear news that they are pregnant, gave birth 53.0 6 When I?ve got nothing on at the weekends and spend it all alone 50.4 7= When I return home to a pitch-dark room 47.0 7= When I talk with someone about how happy my marriend friend seems 47.0 9 When I am in bed with a cold and there?s no-one to look after me 44.4 10 When I break up with a long-term boyfriend/girlfriend 35.9 11 When I cannot see a future with my boyfriend/girlfriend 35.0 12 When I reach the age I wanted to get married by 32.5 13 When I first see them wearing their wedding ring 29.9 14= When I am eating convenience store lunch box on my own 27.4 14= When I see their happy family photo on Facebook, etc 27.4 16 When my parents ask ?Don?t you know anyone nice?? 23.9 17 When I laugh at their married life moans 20.5 18 When I get a souvenier from their family holiday 19.7 19 When they start a new hobby due to their spouse?s influence 14,5 20 When I have a row with my boyfriend/girlfriend 13.7 21 When I pay taxes as a single person 11.1 22= When their fashion sense improves due to their spouse?s influence 10.3 22= When I realise they use being married as an excuse to refuse to go out drinking with the boss 10.3 22= When I drink to excess by myself 10.3 25 When I cannot shake off an illicit love 8.5
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Chinese company wins bid for battery maker A123
NEW YORK (AP) ? Bankrupt battery maker A123 Systems Inc. on Sunday said it will sell most of its assets to the U.S. arm of Chinese auto parts conglomerate Wanxiang Group Corp. for $256.6 million.
Wanxiang America Corp. won an auction conducted under the supervision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
A123's government business will be sold separately, for $2.25 million, to Navitas Systems, of Woodridge, Ill.
A hearing seeking the necessary court approval of the sale is scheduled for Tuesday. The deal must also be okayed by the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States, a federal inter-agency committee that reviews sales of U.S. companies to foreign owners. The company has about 2,000 employees.
Waltham, Mass.-based A123, which makes lithium ion batteries for electric cars, grid storage and commercial and military applications, was awarded a $249 million grant from the Department of Energy in August 2009 to help it build U.S. factories. About $130 million of that grant was delivered before the company fell victim to the lackluster market for electric cars.
In September 2009, it also held a successful initial public offering, raising $380 million as its stock gained more than 50 percent, to close over $20. Shares closed at 13 cents the session before it filed for bankruptcy protection.
Despite opening several plants, developing highly-touted new technology, including a battery that could operate in extreme heat or cold, and signing deals with top automakers like General Motors, Chrysler and India's Tata Motors, the company never posted a profit. In August, it reported an $83 million loss for the second quarter. At the same time, A123 said it reached a financing deal with Wanxiang Group for up to $450 million to help it stay afloat.
But still short of cash, the company sought bankruptcy protection in October, and said it would sell its automotive unit to Milwaukee-based auto parts marker Johnson Controls Inc. for $125 million.
Wanxiang challenged Johnson Controls' role as the primary bidder, and stepped in to provide bankruptcy financing to when the U.S. company declined to do so. In a statement Sunday, Johnson Controls said it officially withdrew from the auction when it declined to match Wanxiang's bid, because the price was higher than the value of the assets to its operations.
The Justice Department has said A123 needs the government's consent to sell its assets, maintaining in Bankruptcy Court that any sale must protect the government's interests because of the 2009 grant.
DOJ maintained that its assets included the roughly $120 million that wasn't handed over yet under the grant, A123's cost-sharing obligations under federal assistance programs, and property and equipment purchased with government funds.
A123 said Sunday that the terms of the deal will see Wanxiang acquire its automotive, grid and commercial business assets, including all technology, products, customer contracts and U.S. facilities in Michigan, Massachusetts and Missouri. It will also get A123's cathode powder manufacturing operations in China and its equity interest in Shanghai Advanced Traction Battery Systems Co., A123's joint venture with Shanghai Automotive.
Excluded from the agreement is A123's Ann Arbor, Mich.-based government business, including all U.S. military contracts, which would be acquired for $2.25 million by Navitas Systems, a company that makes energy storage products for commercial, industrial and government agencies.
""We think we have structured this transaction to address potential national security concerns expressed during the review of our previous investment agreement with Wanxiang announced in August, as well as to address concerns raised by the Department of Energy," said A123 CEO Dave Vieau in a statement. "We believe this transaction balances those risks with A123's obligation to act in the best interest of our creditors."
If the deals are approved by the court, the shares will be worthless. That's because proceeds from the sale of the two parts of A123 would be less than the company owes its creditors.
Based in Chicago, Wanxiang America has been in the automotive and industrial markets in the U.S. since 1994 and currently has more than 3,000 U.S. employees. It is a subsidiary of Wanxiang Group, China's largest automotive components manufacturer and one of China's largest non-state-owned companies.
"We plan to build on the engineering and manufacturing capabilities that A123 has established in the U.S. and we are committed to making the long-term investments necessary for A123 to be successful," said Pin Ni, president of Wanxiang America.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-company-wins-bid-battery-maker-a123-215418976--finance.html
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National Energy Program stills haunts Ottawa
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers a statement regarding the federal government review of the $15.1-billion takeover of Nexen Inc. by China?s CNOOC Ltd. and the $6-billion takeover of Progress by Malaysia?s Petronas in Ottawa on Friday.
Photograph by: FRED CHARTRAND , THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA ? The spectre of the National Energy Program has struck again.
During the five months the Harper government spent agonizing over the CNOOC takeover of Calgary?s Nexen, Conservatives repeatedly came back to their entrenched hatred of the historic Liberal policy.
How, they said, could Ottawa possibly be expected to allow a foreign government to gain control over the country?s natural resources when they had just spent the past three or four decades prying their own government?s fingers off Canada?s oil?
Petro-Canada ? and all that the crown corporation came to represent about state control of the West?s oil ? was finally fully privatized less than a decade ago.
And there was no way Conservatives would allow a foreign government to head back down that road, MPs told Stephen Harper.
When Harper came out to explain why he could allow CNOOC to take over Nexen, but that further state control of oilsands would be off limits, his key rationale echoed their thoughts to a T.
The CNOOC-Nexen deal wouldn?t undermine free-market control of the oilpatch, he said. But other proposals from state-owned enterprises very well could.
?To be blunt, Canadians have not spent years reducing the ownership of sectors of the economy by our own governments only to see them bought and controlled by foreign governments instead,? Harper told reporters in one his longest news conferences in recent memory.
?That was never the purpose of the Investment Canada Act. It is not an outcome that Canadians would ever support. It is not an outcome any responsible government of Canada could ever allow to happen. We certainly will not.?
So as Harper sought to present his complex decision as an elegant and pragmatic solution to the challenge of growing foreign interest in the oilpatch, 40 years of Conservative politicking served as a springboard.
?It?s ideological in the sense that it?s looking back to the National Energy Program and Petro-Can, and saying ?we?re not going to go back to the future,?? said Fen Hampson, director of global security at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
The problem with looking at the global economy through ?Canadian sunglasses,? Hampson said, is that state-owned enterprises and other government-influenced investment funds are a huge source of foreign financing.
Their importance ? through sovereign wealth funds and government-controlled pension funds as well as state-owned enterprises ? is only going to grow. And not just from China and other emerging markets, but also from the Middle East, posing major quandaries for Conservatives.
But while Harper was clear that future out-and-out control of Canadian energy interests by foreign state-owned enterprises would no longer be easily acceptable, he did not entirely refuse to take their money under other circumstances.
While his formal statement to media stressed that oilpatch takeovers by foreign state-owned companies were off limits, the details issued by Industry Canada had a different emphasis.
?Non-controlling minority interests in Canadian businesses proposed by foreign SOEs, including joint ventures, will continue to be welcome in the development of Canada?s economy,? the government documentation states.
That?s where Harper?s revisions to the foreign investment regime are indeed elegant and pragmatic, said Howard Balloch, a former Canadian ambassador to China and now chairman of Canaccord Genuity Asia Ltd.
?We aren?t shutting the door on them. We?re saying we?re going to be more careful,? Balloch said in a phone interview.
Joint ventures are already commonplace in the global energy industry, including in Canada, and Harper?s new approach is signalling that that?s the way to the future, Balloch said.
?It clearly is trying to push state-owned enterprises into non-controlling minority interests,? he said.
Foreign companies that want a piece of Canada?s resources will just have to structure their deals in a way that doesn?t put them in the driver?s seat, he said.
And that?s something China can probably live with, he added.
?China is not interested in a stealth takeover of Canada. They?re interested in these resources because they?re a resource-hungry economy.?
Whether it?s something the Canadian public can live with is another question.
The backlash was significant before Harper?s decision was even announced, and stretched across the political spectrum.
Sensing a vulnerability, the opposition NDP had already launched a funding drive within 90 minutes of the decision being made public.
With his abnormally lengthy news conference to explain his reasons and take all questions on Friday night, Harper essentially kicked off a nuanced public relations campaign to persuade the naysayers that he is on the right track.
?I think Canadians understand that China is a very large economy, and in fact in the not so distant future China is going to be the largest economy in the world, and therefore represent significant opportunities for Canadians,? Harper said.
?At the same time, they understand the Chinese economy, the Chinese political system, the Chinese society is extremely different in a way that presents significant challenges. And what they expect their government to do is to act in a way that will take advantage of the opportunities that are offered to us, without exposing us to the risks.?
Or, as Professor Warren Mabee at Queen?s University put it, ?he?s intent on having his cake, and eating it, too.?
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Senior Staff Programmer - Sony Computer Entertainment America - Santa Monica Santa Monica, CA, USA
Be a part of the most exciting and innovating computer entertainment in North America. Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) markets the PlayStation? family of products and develops, publishes, markets, and distributes software for the PS one? console, the PlayStation?2 and PlayStation?3 computer entertainment systems and the PlayStation Portable (PSP?).
Sony Santa Monica is seeking a senior tools/technology programmer to join the team behind the critically acclaimed "God of War" games.? In this generalist role you work on the backbone of our production pipeline, associated tools, and sometimes also run-time technologies. Your customers are both the contents creators and the programmers of the studio, and you care deeply about the quality of their experience and their ability to iterate with our tools and pipeline. You maintain an open dialog with all customers, inviting feedback, looking for areas of improvement.? We value talent, self-motivation, and team spirit. In turn, we provide an environment with a large degree of freedom and autonomy.
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Designing and implementing tools and technology to support build and engine pipelines (such as live-editing, iteration workflow, asset compilation and processing).
* Help support and maintain existing systems.
* Provide support and assistance to team end users.
* Writing clear, maintainable, portable, and highly functional code.
* Profiling and performance tuning of code and systems to remove bottlenecks.
* As needed work on runtime engine tasks to support specific project requirements.
* Testing and documenting of the code you write.
This job listing originated on Gamasutra.com, the game industry's leader.
REQUIREMENTS:* B.Sc. degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
* Expertise in C and C++.
* Minimum five years programming experience.
* Strong generalist skills and solid code architectural skills.
* Self-motivated with good communication skills.
* Able and motivated to work with other team members.
* Commitment to code quality, documentation and sound testing procedures.
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DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
* Perforce (or other SCM), build and build deployment systems (Jenkins, SN-DBS), Python, functional testing, automation, databases and key-value
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Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) is responsible for keeping PlayStation? growing and thriving in the United States, Canada and Latin America. Based in Foster City, California, SCEA serves as headquarters for all North American operations and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America Inc.
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It is SCEA's policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. SCEA does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law.? SCEA also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees.
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