King on CHL: Who's hot & cold
Posted: March 6, 2012 at 6:05 am
Team success is leading to personal success for the Saint John Sea Dogs.
The defending MasterCard Memorial Cup champions are turning heads and taking names with a 17-game winning streak. Overage forward Danick Gauthier, an undrafted free agent, signed with the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday. He wasn't the only undrafted overager to sign, as Tri-City's Brendan Shinnimin inked a deal with Phoenix the same day.
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Hot team: Plymouth Whalers
As is customary in Plymouth, the Whalers are turning in a dominant run for the stretch drive. The Whalers are riding a six-game winning streak after coming out on top in four games last week. Plymouth is now just two points back of London for top spot in the Western Conference and overall league standings. Given their second-half surge, the best could still be yet to come for the Whalers.
Cold team: Kitchener Rangers
The Rangers haven't fared too well away from home of late. Kitchener dropped its last four games, all on the road, and won just three of the last 10 games. Goaltender John Gibson returned from injury last week, but was understandably rusty after a month on the shelf. The Rangers have been outscored 26-12 during this stretch, but continue to hold the third spot in the Western Conference standings.
Game of the week: Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds vs. Windsor Spitfires, Thursday
The eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference standings could come down to these two teams. Windsor begins the week in eighth, while Sault Ste. Marie trails by two points with a game in hand. The Guelph Storm are also tied with Windsor in points, but have two games in hand. Among the interesting subplots is a trade the two teams made in November, which sent American world junior goaltender Jack Campbell to the Greyhounds. His team opens the week riding a two-game winning-streak, while his old team lost two straight. This game will go a long way in determining which team is in and which is out when the playoff picture is settled.
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Fox News big: Mitt 'uncomfortable with people'
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Mitt Romneys inability to connect with people not his corporate success and vast personal fortune could ultimately be what derails his campaign, said business broadcast veteran Neil Cavuto in an exclusive interview.
Weve had lots of wealthy presidents, Cavuto, managing editor for business news at Fox News Channel and Fox Business News, told the Herald. Romneys wealth has hurt him because he hasnt embraced it.
Cavuto, referring to the latest of Romneys Thurston Howell III-like wealth gaffes, said, Romney should have told voters he wants to be in the position to help them get a couple of Cadillacs. He needs to be quicker on his feet. Theres nothing wrong with being wealthy. Theres something wrong with being uncomfortable with people.
As Massachusetts primary voters head to the polls today, Cavuto said, Ask if your former governor is up for the task. Can he make things economically right?
The veteran business journalist, who has been covering the primary as a business story because the economy is such a key issue, said President Obama soon may regret his strategy of attacking Wall Street.
I dont think demonizing Wall Street was a good strategy, Cavuto said. I think you dont damn success and point fingers. You find a better way to do it. Like John F. Kennedy did quietly with the steel industry.
But Obama may benefit from economic recovery, he said.
Theres a distinct likelihood the unemployment rate could be under 8 percent in November, Cavuto said. The trend is the presidents friend.
The news anchor, a cancer survivor who is battling multiple sclerosis, said he doesnt like to complain, either about his illnesses or the challenges of building up the Fox Business News brand.
At first when I left CNBC, it was like I was in the witness protection program, said Cavuto, who joined Fox News nearly 16 years ago. But good things take time. I believe if you build it, they will come. Im not going to lie to you. Its an uphill battle, but I know what it takes to connect to people.
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Local turns personal experience into business venture
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Published: Monday, March 5, 2012 at 10:54 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, March 5, 2012 at 10:54 a.m.
Stacy Sevin never planned to get involved in small-business development.
But when the BP oil spill hit, the Chauvin resident found herself assisting various family seafood businesses navigate the disaster's impact.
My whole family is pretty much in the seafood industry. I was basically consulting for about a year to help them get through that time, said Chauvin, 28, who spent her childhood working on her grandparents' dock in Cocodrie.
Her parents, who own Bait House Seafood on Little Caillou Road, devised a business plan and calculated their spill-related losses with the help of the Louisiana Small Business Development Center at Nicholls State University.
The organization gets its money from state and federal grants, and provides free, confidential services and low-cost business classes and training. It was designed to help offset the effects of hurricanes, Sevin said, but happened to open up the day after the spill.
Everybody in this area was affected by this spill, either directly or indirectly, Sevin said. Services like private consulting, or even having a CPA do an assessment for you, are very expensive. The claims process required detailed monthly loss documentation, and many fishermen don't normally do their books monthly.
Having helped her family with claims and development plans after the spill, Sevin realized she had a knack for small-business development work. In August, she started working as a consultant for the center which had helped save her parents' business.
Andrew and Christine Blanchard, who own Indian Ridge Shrimp company in Chauvin, have worked with Sevin for two months.
Stacy's been a big inspiration to us with all her help and ideas, said Christine Blanchard. As far as our website, we didn't know how to post things so we would get hits on Google. We didn't know you could do a Facebook page for a business and use that to get your name out there. She's helping us with our business plan now. Everyone else charges a fortune for all this, and she does it for free.
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Getting Personal With Mode 7 and Frozen Synapse
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A glimpse of multi-player combat.
Frozen Synapse is a turn-based tactical shooter, featuring pseudo-randomly generated spaces, asychronous multiplayer matchups, and a frenetic pace. It's received considerable critical acclaim since its release last year, and has earned nominations for two awards at the Independent Games Festival. There's also an iPad version, and DLC on the way. We had a chat with Mode 7 to learn more.
Game On: Who are you, and how did you get into game developing?
Paul Taylor: I co-own an indie game development studio with my business partner Ian Hardingham, who is our Lead Designer and Programmer.
I got into indie games through writing music for our first title Determinance. After that we decided to join forces and form a proper company.
Game On: What is Frozen Synapse?
Paul Taylor: We call Frozen Synapse a "simultaneous turn-based" title. Two players face off against each other with a small squad of units. Each player must decide what his units will do in the next five seconds. Once both have made their decisions, they then watch the outcome and see who came out on top!
Ian came up with the idea after playing a lot of an old PC game called Laser Squad Nemesis. He wanted to make a more modern, exciting, instantly-playable version of it that foregrounded the interesting decisions.
Your readers should play it because it's got insanely good reviews and it's brilliantly unique!
Also, we're incredibly humble!
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Hanoi faces parking crunch
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Motorcycles are parked on the pavement blocking people from walking past a street corner in downtown Hanoi on January 6, 2012. Vietnam's big cities such as Hanoi are facing serious urban problems like a lack of parking for both motorcycles and cars.
Viet Nam News/Asia News Network Tuesday, Mar 06, 2012
HANOI - While the number of personal vehicles in Ha Noi is increasing rapidly, the capital is still fumbling with solutions to tackle the dire shortage of parking facilities.
Figures from the municipal Transport Department show that there are about 300,000 cars and over 3.8 million motorbikes of various kinds in the city at present, excluding the number of vehicles owned by people commuting from other provinces to work and study.
The number of personal vehicles is increasing by 15 per cent each year, but there are only 1,178 licensed parking lots in the city, meeting just 10 per cent of demand.
Funding for parking facilities is supposed to account for 3 per cent of the traffic development budget, but in Ha Noi, it is just one-tenth of that, according to Vice Chairman of the Ha Noi Planning and Development Association Dao Ngoc Nghiem.
The remaining 90 per cent of vehicle users in the capital use parking lots in apartment blocks, urban areas, agencies, schools, hospitals, roadsides and alleys.
This lack of parking facilities has led to the development of dozens of illegal parking lots on pavements and in vacant public places throughout the city.
With increasing demand and insufficient facilities, municipal authorities had allowed certain pavements, roadsides and alleys to be used for parking as a temporary measure, said deputy head of the Urban Research and Infrastructure Development Institute Luu Duc Hai.
"However, many of our roads were not designed for this use, and parking on them obstructs traffic and adds to congestion," he said.
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