This is very timely. It's way past needed. ... (Some parts of the city) are absolutely a bad sight to look at.

Louisiana Tech continues to provide us with a place where we can nurture and market a technology that will revolutionize streaming technologies as we know it. Although getting our technology into homes around the world is our main focus, bringing environmentally friendly, technology businesses back to Louisiana is also a chief priority.

We think (the verdict) is without merit.

Sunnyside has been the team to beat over the past five years, and we wanted to make sure we got this game on the schedule. This will be a good test for us.

Without the hurricanes, it could have been 14 consecutive months of below-normal rainfall. This past March was one of the driest - if not the driest - Marches on record for a large portion of South Louisiana, and this extremely dry spring weather has persisted through the first half of April, as well.

As far as the paging industry is concerned, we have never in the past had a nationwide outage as we have had this time.