Since Hurricane Katrina, the people of LSU -- students, coaches, administrators, staff and professors -- have played an indispensable role in assisting evacuees and the injured being helped in its campus facilities. Now that the need for this effort is winding down, the LSU campus is anxious to return to as much normalcy as possible, ... The SEC is cognizant of that and will follow its normal procedures as it comes to television selection and game management issues. |
Street had two days off. I'm not playing the statistic game right now. There's only one statistic that worried me and that's winning the game. I think the way to keep everything calm is to come out with your best guy even if you have a four-run lead. I know how this ballpark can get. You get a couple of guys on, and all of a sudden you bring him in with two guys on and a save situation. I prefer it to be the other way around. For me tonight, it was a save situation. |
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The process we went through to balance the difficulty is pretty rigorous. Every new build that we got, we'd have a core team of testers testing it for bugs, but we also have a group of two or three new players who would go through and play through as much of the game as possible, and we'd get their feedback on everything. A lot of the difficulty tweaking was done on a level-by-level basis. Some of the time limits were too strict or the enemy A.I. was too aggressive. |
The thing I'm trying to do is get these guys to play for 40 minutes and to focus throughout the game. I'm trying to get them to believe in themselves. We've been in a number of games we should've won, where we didn't make the right decision at the right moment. The regular season is over, the tournament is what matters. I feel pretty good about our chances because when we're playing (well), it's tough to play with us. The way we're playing, we can play with anybody. |
The US military appears to be systematically downplaying the hunger strike in order to avoid international criticism. In July they denied the existence of a hunger strike two weeks after it had started. Now they seem to be understating the number of detainees involved and the gravity of the medical condition of several of the detainees. This policy once again demonstrates the lack of transparency around all US detention practices and policies in the 'war on terror'. |
There have been many predictions, mostly based on guesswork, that India's AIDS problem will explode -- as it did in southern Africa -- but we now have direct evidence of something positive. The good news is that HIV in young adults appears to be declining in the south -- most likely or perhaps only due to men keeping away from (sex workers) or using condoms more often when they do. The not-so-good news is that trends in the north remain uncertain and poorly studied. |
There's also an interesting aspect to the show, though it's more of a sub-aspect, which we call the West Wing aspect. In one episode there's a senator who doesn't know about Threshold, who discovers $50 million has been diverted to something called Threshold, and he wants to know what the hell is going on. And the lid is almost blown off the whole operation. So the team is not only trying to figure out what's going on, they're trying to keep people from finding out. |
There's not a final tally yet of how many people are dead. I'm sure that's going to go way up. There are probably numerous, numerous people that will never be found. But for the people who made it, including my family, there's a lot to be thankful for because when this is all said and done, a lot of people are going to be very fortunate that they're alive because this was a bad one, ... It's going to take some time. My mom, I don't think she'll ever recover from it. |
They cordoned off the area and increased a surveillance zone to about 10 kilometers. Because some of the poultry were inside the 10-kilometer area, they were sequestered -- no movement in, no movement out. There was rapid sending of the samples [for testing], confirmatory diagnosis, quick action on part of the Ministry of Agriculture to hold a press conference and take measures at the local level, and good coordination between the central and provincial governments. |
They were really big and they took everything away from us. We're used to firing up the [open] threes. We finally started getting the ball more inside in the last quarter. We had to really work for our shots. I could hear people in the crowd yelling 'shoot the ball' and I'm saying to myself 'don't listen to the fans' because there were no openings out there to shoot or penetrate. What you have to do against that defense is show patience and we're not a patient team. |
This is an unusual decision based on a procedural anomaly. It has nothing to do with the merits of the case or the substance of copyright law. We have filed a motion asking the court to reconsider. To date, we have won the only two court decisions on the merits of our cases. The basic fact remains: Regardless of age, if you violate the law and steal from record companies, musicians, songwriters and everyone else involved in making music, you can be held accountable. |