There's a huge volume of gas shale left in this country. These gas prices are going to stay around for some time.

It?s an opportunity to provide data for those operators so they don't have to try to maintain their own separate collections.

The idea of having a facility like this is to obtain and maintain collections of information that would be valuable to oil and gas operators.

Here I am at these crossroads again,
wondering what will never become of me.
Now and then, I'll take one on the chin.
Because I wear my heart upon my sleeve.

We have talked to our arts colleagues around the country, and they say no one has ever attempted anything like this with a major ballet company.

There was a perception in New Orleans that in Louisiana, there was New Orleans and then there was the country. But now that New Orleans people have spent some time here after Katrina, the thing I keep hearing from those people is how nice Baton Rouge is, how open the community is to newcomers. And I think that is why people are staying.