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Minneapolis rapper Slug (aka Sean Daley) has been at the forefront of underground rap so long it's hard for hip-hop heads to remember when Atmosphere wasn't a household name. Backed by DJ and producer Ant, Slug created a revolution of emotionally raw lyricism wherein his unbridled ego—and the defense mechanisms and underpinnings that created it—were ever-present. More than 20 years down the road, his discography is as much the soundtrack of a generation and subculture as it is a catalogue of desperate but defiant barstool poetry. In advance of a show at the Albuquerque Convention Center, Slug spoke with the Alibi.
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(Tunica, MS) A Tunica teenager was shot and killed, reportedly by his classmate.
The victim's mother said it could have been prevented, since he had talked about killing her son on social media since September.
Seventeen-year-old Cortez Bass was charged with murder and cyberstalking. His bond was set for $1 million Thursday.
"I have to bury my 17-year-old child. I was planning his prom and his graduation. He was going to graduate. Now, I'm planning his funeral. I'm numb," said Linda Jackson.
Emptiness fills Jackson. A part of her is now missing.
Her 17-year-old son Donterrius was shot and killed a few feet from her home Monday.
"He turned his back. They fired the shot, and he tried to run home," said Jackson.
Bass, Donterrius' Rosa Fort High classmate, is charged with his murder and cyberstalking.
Jackson said for the past seven months, Bass posted on social media how he was going to kill Donterrius and his 1-year-old daughter.
She reported it to deputies.
"It could have been prevented if they would just do their job. I went time after time. I called and emailed," she said.
The sheriff's office couldn't tell WREG when Linda first made a report. Deputies said they were investigating and trying to find out if Bass's social media account was real. They said they were waiting to get subpoenas.
"There's no excuse. There's no justification," said Jackson.
Teddy bears and flowers now cover the spot where the body of Donterrius was found; a reminder of the love so many had for the 17-year-old.
"I sleep in his bed to just smell his scent. I'm never going to wash his sheets. I don't want to wash away his scent," said Jackson. "I'm trying to remain strong."
Donterrius was set to graduate in May. He wanted to enlist in the Army, and then go to art school.
Deputies said death has affected the entire city.
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All Start-Up's Profiles
By Jean-Jacques Maleval on 2012.05.28
Here are all the start-up's profiles published on this web site:
*Not precisely "Start-Up's Profile", but exclusive article on the company
4DS, Inc. (November 10, 2009)
Wants to replace DRAM and flash by RRAM
Actifio (August 9, 2010)
In data management virtualization
AetherStore (March 18, 2013)
In software creating shared storage system out of unused space on workstation HDDs
Altaro Software (September 13, 2010)
With CDP backup software for home and SMBs
Avere Systems (September 20, 2011)
In NAS accelerator
Axxana (September 2, 2010)
In zero loss disaster recovery
B-Virtual (October 26, 2009)
Founded by former people of Datacenter Technologies
Barracuda Networks (May 12, 2013)
Raised $75 million in IPO last month
balesio (March 2, 2012)
Swiss firm in primary storage reduction, different from de-dupe
BridgeSTOR (January 31, 2012)
In de-dupe/compression appliance and card for primary/secondary storage
ByteActive (April 22, 2011)
Software to access cloud storage services with encryption and data reduction
Cache IQ (May 2, 2012)
In NAS accelerator
*Cachengo (October 1, 2009)
In backup appliance with cloud storage
Cirtas Systems (June 9, 2010)
In stealth mode preparing an appliance for cloud storage
Cleversafe (August 22, 2013)
RAID killer just raising huge $55 million in series D
Cobalt Iron (November 29, 2012)
Combines enterprise local and cloud backup.
Coho Data (November 6, 2013)
In hybrid system with software-defined storage networking, just raising $25 million
Contour Semiconductor (April 28; 2014)
In non-volatile memory challenging NAND flash market
Coraid (January 26, 2010)
Just getting $10 million in funding
Ctera Networks (October 4, 2010)
With the smallest NAS never seen
*DensBits (May 2, 2012)
In 3 bits per cell eMMC controller to replace MLC
*Doyenz (September 24, 2009)
Providing DR to the cloud for SMBs
Druva (April 29, 2010)
De-dupe made in India by former Symantec/Veritas executives
ExEasy NetCDP (November 20, 2009)
With software to improve online backup
Fizians (January 2, 2015)
in software scale-out NAS file system
Gladinet (November 27, 2009)
In software to ease cloud storage
GridIron Systems (December 28, 2010)
In SAN accelerator appliance
Gridstore (December 23, 2009)
In NAS grid software
High Density Devices (November 6, 2009)
Specialized in encryption for storage devices
Index Engines (August 10, 2010)
In fast indexing of huge amount of data
*Infinidat (October 17, 2011)
Famous Dr. Alex Winokur involved
*Infinity Storage (March 26, 2012)
Italian firm in file virtualization software
InQuinox (October 27, 2009)
Founded by former Symantec/Veritas veterans
Interlock Technology (March 18, 2010)
To migrate from Centera to another storage platform
JDV Solutions (May 10, 2010)
With 1U subsystem up to 2TB containing 8 SSDs and one HDD
Kaminario (August 7, 2013)
In all-SSD scale-out subsystem but without de-dupe
Link_A_Media Devices (December 1, 2009)
In SoCs for HDDs and SSDs
Lortu Software (October 25, 2010)
Spanish company in byte-level de-dupe appliance
Maginatics (August 16, 2014)
In enterprise cloud-based file sharing software
MapR (May 2, 2013)
Hadoop distribution with data protection and BC
MaxiScale (October 6, 2009)
In software for clustered file systems
Maxta (December 19, 2013-
In software-defined storage for virtualization
MXsense Solutions (February 2, 2010)
Provider of a cloud-based email archiving service
Newline Software (October 12, 2009)
In "eco-friendly" online backup
Nexenta Systems (June 19, 2012)
In storage OS based on ZFS
*NexGen (February 8, 2011)
Launched by co-founders of LeftHand
Nimble Storage (July 26, 2010)
Storage, backup and DR in all-in-one device with SSDs and HDDs
*Nimble Storage (October 21, 2013)
In IPO hoping to get up to $150 million
Nimbus Data Systems (April 26, 2010)
All-SSD enterprise subsystem at HDDs' prices
nScaled (July 15, 2010)
In cloud disaster recovery for legal and financial firms
Nubisio (April 23, 2014)
CloudStorm software making cloud storage extension of primary storage
*Nutanix (March 23, 2011)
Famous Mark Leslie in advisory board
Object Matrix (February 19, 2012)
Trying to compete with Isilon in creative video market
OneCloud Software (November 7, 2014)
In recovery software for integrating data centers securely with AWS
OS Nexus (January 7, 2011)
iSCSI/NFS storage OS for clouds
ownCloud (March 23, 2012)
Will offer a commercial version of open source software to sync files.
Pancetera Software (February 10, 2011)
Virtual appliance to accelerate VM backups
Panzura (May 31, 2010)
Cloud storage as tier one
Pivot3 (April 10, 2012)
In IP SANs for video surveillance and VDI
Pure Storage (February 3, 2011)
Founded by Veritas' executives and already with $20 million in financial funding
Updated version (October 9, 2013)
In all-flash storage arrays, any chance for IPO?
Reduxio (January 1, 2014)
In software reducing data on SSD/HDD arrays
RethinkDB (October 12, 2009)
In MySQL storage engine optimized for SSDs
San Sentinel (December 8, 2012)
French company in speedy SRM software
Scality (August 16, 2010)
With petabyte storage software platform for email messaging
Sentilla (October 28, 2009)
With software to get the power consumption of a data center in real time (including for all storage devices)
*SimpliVity (February 20, 2012)
Headed by former Diligent CEO Doron Kempel
Skylable (October 15, 2014)
In distributed cluster software solution for storage
SolidFire (February 19, 203)
In all-SSD storage system for large cloud environment
Sonian (January 18, 2010)
Involved in cloud-powered email archiving
*Soonr (June 11, 2010)
In cloud backup protection with CDP and synchronization
Starboard Storage Systems (February 15,2012)
With HDD/SSD system able to optimize each application
StorSimple (October 16, 2009)
Founded by former executives from Andiamo/Cisco and Rhapsody/Brocade
*Synerway (May 2, 2012)
Rare société française du stockage avec sa propre technologie
Talon Storage Solutions (December 23, 2013)
In Microsoft File Aware application acceleration and storage for branch office
Tegile (February 14, 2012)
Newcomer in multi-protocol SSD/HDD array with de-dupe for primary storage
TwinStrata (March 4, 2014)
In cloud-integrated storage software for mid-sized companies
VeloBit (June 9, 2011)
In software managing SSD as a cache
Virsto Software (March 29, 2010)
Improving storage on Hyper-V
(and) Virsto Software (June 10, 2011)
Acquiring VMware storage developer EvoStor
Virtual Instruments (November 4, 2010)
In SAN and VMware performance and optimization with software and hardware
VirtualSharp Software (September 20, 2010)
Spanish firm in DR reliability for VMware
VM6 Software (October 19, 2010)
Software virtualizing storage, servers and desktops on a single server without SAN
WhipTail Technologies (May 17, 2010)
In tier 0 SSD SAN appliances with de-dupe
Zerto (September 18, 2013)
In replication and recovery software for VMware


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Ojai Valley man held on charges of attempted murder of deputy
Details about an attack last year on a Ventura County sheriff's deputy were given in a preliminary hearing Tuesday for the man accused of trying to kill her.
Sheriff's Detective Joe Evans testified in Superior Court on how Deputy Traci Salmon was attacked Dec. 10 by a man with a history of mental illness. Salmon was alone when she responded to a 911 hang-up call from a home in the 4900 block of Casitas Pass Road in the Ojai Valley.
John Steven Atkinson opened the front door, and Salmon asked if anyone had called 911, Evans testified. Atkinson's father was inside the house, looked at Salmon and said, "Help me," testified Evans, who investigated the case.
Atkinson was furious and grabbed Salmon's bulletproof vest, and a fight ensued on the patio, Evans said. "The fight was on, and he was hitting her in the head" with his fists, Evans said.
Atkinson, 33, who is being held on $1 million bail, is charged with attempted murder, second-degree robbery, two counts of false imprisonment of an elder and two misdemeanors counts of elder abuse, according to court documents.
Judge Kevin DeNoce held that there was sufficient evidence to hold Atkinson to answer to the charges.
Evans testified that Salmon and Atkinson struggled to control her Taser. Atkinson fired the Taser and struck Salmon in the face and upper body with the weapon's metal clips.
During the fight, Salmon managed to get her gun and shoot Atkinson in the leg, Evans said. She tried to keep firing but the gun jammed, he said.
"She was always being controlled physically by him," said Evans. "It's a pretty violent altercation. It's a fight."
At one point, Atkinson grabbed the officer's hand-held police radio and beat her with it, while he held onto the gun with his other hand, according to Evans. Atkinson got the gun away from Salmon, pointed it to her head while he was crouched on top of her and pulled the trigger, Evans testified.
"It's directly in her face," said Evans.
The gun jammed.
Salmon kicked him and ran out of the house and into a dog kennel with no exit.
"She had no more weapons. She had nothing. She is done," said Evans.
Salmon called 911 for backup and another deputy responded, rescuing her from the dog kennel, said Evans. Atkinson, armed with a firearm, barricaded himself inside the home with his parents.
Atkinson's lawyer, Rebekah Mathis, peppered Evans and Detective Joe Lopez with questions, delving into the details of what happened, what Atkinson's parents witnessed, and her client's state of mind when he admitted, and later denied, trying to shoot Salmon.
Lopez, who interviewed Atkinson for more than two hours, testified that while in the hospital, Atkinson appeared to be in a catatonic state. He said he had been given a mild painkiller and stared straight ahead.
Lopez said Atkinson initially downplayed what happened.
Mathis asked that her client's statement to Lopez be excluded from evidence. The judge denied the request, saying Atkinson volunteered to speak to police and understood his rights.
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A manifest is created that represents a created work in electronic form. The manifest may reference multiple digital resources that together make up the good, as well as related resources not originally a part of the good. For example, an electronic version of a music album may include image files for the cover art, audio files for the songs, and text files for the lyrics. The manifest may include structured meta-data to facilitate finding, obtaining, exchanging the digital content. The manifest and referenced content may have associated meta-data describing, for example, manifest contents or distribution rules. A receiver of the manifest may apply global and/or user rules or policies to meta-data to determine what portions of the manifest, if any, comply thereto, and to edit or delete the manifest accordingly.
1. A method for processing a collection of digital content received by a receiver having at least one policy affecting receipt of collections, comprising:
receiving a manifest for a work comprising a description of data stored by the collection, a reference to a first digital resource, and meta-data describing the first digital content, wherein the manifest comprises a relationship between the reference and said meta-data so that the manifest includes structure corresponding to the work;
testing compliance of the description with the policy;
determining if the manifest can be edited to comply with the policy; and
responsive to determining the manifest cannot be edited, disposing of the manifest.
2. The method of
providing a search query for locating digital content to a search agent; and
receiving the manifest in response to the search query.
3. The method of
the manifest further comprising a second reference to second digital content, second meta-data describing the second digital content, and purchasing data for said first and second digital content;
deciding to obtain the collection;
determining the first digital content was not previously obtained;
determining the second digital content has been previously been obtained; and
purchasing only the first digital content in accord with said purchasing data.
4. The method of
the manifest further comprising a second reference to second digital content, second meta-data describing the second digital content;
deciding to obtain the first collection;
determining the second digital content has been previously been obtained, said determining being based on the second digital content already being present in a selected one of: a cache, another collection, or a local storage device; and
obtaining only the first digital content.
5. A digital content management system, comprising:
a storage for storing digital content collections, wherein a collection comprises a link reference to digital content, and meta-data describing selected ones of said digital content and the collection;
a communication agent communicatively coupled to the storage;
a receiver communicatively coupled to the communication agent, said receiver configured to inspect said meta-data and process the collection accordingly;
a transmitter communicatively coupled to the communication agent, said transmitter configured to inspect the reference to digital content to confirm retrievability of the digital content, and to make the collection available to other digital content management systems;
a policy checker configured to check digital content collections received by the communication agent against a policy of the receiver;
a digital content collection editor, communicatively coupled to the policy checker, said editor configured to change digital content collections to comply with the policy; and
a digital content collection rejecter, communicatively coupled to said editor, said rejecter configured to reject received digital content collections;
wherein said digital content collection rejecter is configured to reject digital content collections that cannot be edited to comply with the policy.
6. The system of
a search agent configured to locate digital content satisfying search criteria, said locating including searching the storage for satisfying digital content.
7. The system of
8. The system of
a creation tool for creating the collection; and
a user interface communicatively coupled to the creation tool, said user interface having a first interface tool to facilitate selection of the digital content, and a second interface tool to facilitate entering said meta-data.
9. The system of
a search agent configured to receive search criteria and search for digital content collections satisfying said search criteria; and
a commerce agent comprising a purchasing tool configured to determine purchasing requirements for received digital content collections, and a payment tool configured to purchase digital content in accord with said purchasing requirements.
10. The system of
11. An article comprising a machine accessible medium having instructions encoded thereon for processing a collection of digital content received by a receiver having at least one policy affecting receipt of collections, said instructions, which when executed by a machine, result in the machine performing:
receiving a manifest for a work comprising a description of data stored by the collection, a reference to a first digital resource, and meta-data describing the first digital content, wherein the manifest comprises a relationship between the reference and said meta-data so that the manifest includes structure corresponding to the work;
testing compliance of the description with the policy;
determining if the manifest can be edited to comply with the policy; and
responsive to determining the manifest cannot be edited, disposing of the manifest.
12. The article of
providing a search query for locating digital content to a search agent; and
receiving the manifest in response to the search query.
13. The article of
deciding to obtain the collection;
determining the first digital content was not previously obtained;
determining the second digital content has been previously obtained; and
purchasing only the first digital content in accord with said purchasing data.
14. The article of
deciding to obtain the first collection;
determining the second collection has been previously obtained, said determining being based on the second digital content already being present in a selected one of: a cache, another collection, or a local storage device; and
obtaining only the first digital content.
The invention generally relates to distribution of digital content, and more particularly to creating, a manifest having structure, meta-data describing digital content, and references to digital resources, where the manifest facilitates finding, obtaining, organizing, collecting, and sharing the digital content.
Computing devices, such as a personal computer, typically employ a folder/document metaphor for storing and organizing content. While such a metaphor is well suited to an office environment, where content is typically in the form of documents, it is not effective when applied to the use and management of arbitrary digital content. For example, a digital photo album may be defined to correspond to a physical photo album. Thus, certain photos and/or textures may be identified as corresponding to front and back covers for the photo album, and other photos identified as being internal to the album. All content within the album would be stored in a folder or hierarchy of folders. Unfortunately, such a hierarchy lacks cohesion or inherent structure found in a physical photo album. Thus, while a real photo album can be easily organized, shared, etc., there is no standard method for doing so with the hierarchy for the digital photo album.
One solution has been to apply an encapsulating structure (e.g. zip or tar file) to the hierarchy and thus create an archive containing all of the digital content. This archive can then be exchanged, sold, etc. A significant drawback to such an archive is that it is monolithic, e.g., it contains all data within the album. This reduces the transferability of the album, and restricts selective transfer of only some album contents. In addition, an archive generally lacks data describing the context and contents of the photo album (e.g., meta-data), thus making it difficult to organize and search/find digital content, and to avoid having duplicative digital content. For example, once the archive it received, it needs to be re-created in a folder structure corresponding to the original hierarchy structure, or risk internal references to files being lost. This prevents or restricts moving, organizing, and re-organizing digital content.
In addition, assuming the user can maintain the proper structure of the content, also lacking to such an archive is an easy, robust, and widely-supported method for searching digital content. For example, for music data, without excessive redundancy, folder organization techniques cannot help if you want to locate a song played based on multiple criteria, such as mood and music type, since music would generally fall into multiple categories and thus require entry in multiple folders.
Similarly, one cannot select a video starring a certain actor and start viewing at a particular scene, hum a bar of a tune and have the system find it for you, or find all photos taken at an event last year. These tasks cannot be performed because mere hierarchical storage of digital content lacks associative or context data, such as captions, dates, places, copyrights, artist, author, genre, etc. to allow identification of digital content based on such search criteria.
Assuming the digital content can be located, exchanging the digital content is difficult due to a lack of open and flexible standard to do so. Existing digital content packaging schemes are proprietary and tailored to specific content types, such as for electronic books or music. Currently there is no technology for uniformly packaging, in electronic form, a wide variety of digital content in a way that qualifies the content as what the entertainment industry calls a "title."
The features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the present invention in which:
To address limitations in management and distribution of digital content, a system may be used for uniform electronic packaging of digital content independent of content type, along with automated distribution of digital content to desired recipients. The phrase "digital content" refers to digital representations of created works, such as multimedia items including photo albums, music albums, novels, magazines, and the like, as well as entirely new forms of content that may emerge in the electronic realm. The phrase "electronic package" means an instance of digital content that exists in some computer accessible medium, such as on a wire, in computer memory, on a storage device, etc.
The illustrated embodiments of the invention may represent, or package, abstract created works in a concrete electronic digital form, as well as provide an electronic analog to traditional physical goods. For example, a CD-ROM or vinyl album is simply a physical representation of the abstract concept "music album"; a book is simply a physical representation of the abstract concept "novel." But, it will be appreciated that these exemplary album and novel concepts have been largely defined with respect to the limitations of their physical representations. And, these abstract forms can be faithfully represented in an electronic form. However, it should be appreciated that since a non-physical electronic realm lacks limitations of physical objects, and therefore abstract forms of created works can morph and evolve in ways unpredictable, and perhaps not physically possible.
Thus, an electronic package may be structured to correspond to, or mimic, a physical good. For example, an electronic package corresponding to a music compact disc (CD) can be defined as having packaging, cover illustrations, organization, etc., corresponding to a physical CD. However, unlike the physical good, in an electronic realm, the electronic package may also include meta-data describing the parts, and/or context of the packaged digital content, rules controlling distribution of the digital content, as well as references to content related to but not part of the physical good.
In one embodiment, an electronic package of digital content is represented by a "manifest" (see
Agents include, for example, search engines used by a receiver to locate digital content of interest to the receiver, order processing systems for responding to and fulfilling purchase requests, and systems that customize content en route for specific locales. Agents can incorporate arbitrary "intelligence" that facilitate buying, selling, trading, bartering, lending, etc. of digital content. In one embodiment, originators and receivers may also perform the functions of an agent.
Thus, receiver 1 106 may contact Agent 1 110, and indicate interest in obtaining a certain classical music CD as digital content. If Agent 1 cannot directly provide the requested digital content, Agent 1 contacts Agent 2 112 over the network 114, and request the desired digital content. Assuming Agent 2 can fulfill the request, Agent 2 sends Agent 1 a manifest corresponding to the requested digital content.
It will be appreciated that typical content distribution services, such as Universal Music Group's bluematter and BMG (both online music providers), and Flycode (a peer-to-peer short film distribution network), already allow one to obtain digital content over a network. (Please note that all marks herein are the property of their respective owners.) However, a significant limitation of such services is that received content is a monolithic encapsulation, it contains all parts of the digital content whether one wishes to receive it or not. Thus, for a music album, the receiver would receive all data for all songs within the album, which may potentially include multiple encodings of each song, etc. This contrasts distribution by way of a manifest, which may only contain references to digital resources, allowing advance determination of which parts, if any, of the content to obtain before expending resources to receive it.
Another limitation of prior art techniques is that the content is rigidly structured. For example, bluematter and BMG can provide a "song," or an "album," but these are content forms that cannot be easily extended to include other types of content, such as video clips, discount coupons, etc. Such content is also inflexible in the types of metadata that can be included. For example, fixed file formats (e.g., MP3, WMA, etc.) typically used in such services have specific notions of what constitutes appropriate metadata for a music album or an individual song. This results in limitations in what data may be represented, and how, thus limiting general applicability of the file format. Such systems are tightly bound with specific encoding formats, and are difficult to upgrade when technological improvements are made.
As illustrated, the manifest 200 itself corresponds to a top, or outer, level. Within the illustrated manifest are six item declarations corresponding to two songs 202, 216, two videos 230, 236, cover art graphics 242 and meta-data 244. The meta-data 244 may contain distribution rules, requirements, or policies (hereafter "rules or policies") regarding handling of the manifest, or the digital content described by the manifest.
Items (and sub-items) can have sub-items. For example, as illustrated, song 1 202 contains references 204, 206 to different encodings of song 1, meta-data 208 describing song 1, a reference 210 to lyrics for song 1, a reference 212 to a musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) encoding of song 1. The references 204, 206 to the different encodings allow providing different encodings of a song, such as a high bit rate version and a low bit rate version, allowing a receiver 106, 108 (
The meta-data for song 1 202 may also contain pricing information for each song encoding, e.g., the high bit rate encoding 206 for song 1 may cost more than the low bit rate 204 encoding. The meta-data may also include other data such as content ratings, intended audience ratings, e.g., an indicator the song is intended for kids, teenagers, adults, etc., song genre, geographic distribution rules, e.g., different geographic regions receive different song versions, parental controls, etc. The manifest primarily contains references to digital resources, rather than directly embedding the resources. The meta-data may be used to determine how to handle digital resources referenced by the manifest (see FIG. 5). The meta-data can also be inspected to prevent duplicative retrieval of digital resources already be present in a cache or local storage, e.g., saved to disk or a collection. Duplicative retrievals unnecessarily burden networks and increase purchase costs and delivery times.
The illustrated manifest 200 also includes videos sections 230, 236 having references 232, 238 to video clips of concerts, music videos, or other video data related to the physical good described by the manifest. As with the songs, 202, 216, the video sections 230, 236 may have associated meta-data 234, 240, such as title, running time, content ratings, and other such data as discussed above for song data. It will be appreciated that video data is not ordinarily part of a music CD distribution. However, since the manifest contains references to digital resources, rather than the resources themselves, it is easy to extend the manifest to include varied data typically associated with the music CD, even though such an inclusion would be impractical or cost ineffective to distribute along with the physical CD, or obtain along with a traditional monolithic download.
As illustrated, the manifest may also include a reference 242 to a graphics file, such as for a graphics encoding of the cover art for the music CD. Such graphics data facilitates presenting, by way of a user interface, a visual representation, such a picture of the cover of an album, or other representative view, of the created work being represented by the manifest.
It is assumed that an appropriate user interface, such as a text-based or graphical-based interface is used to identify digital resources to include in the manifest, and to create the manifest accordingly. In one embodiment, the same user interface is used to process received manifests. In one embodiment, the graphical user interface is based on an Internet browser. In one embodiment, the manifest includes security provisions to detect unauthorized tampering with the manifest. In one embodiment, the manifest is cryptographically signed. In another embodiment, some or all of the manifest is encrypted with a private and/or known public cryptographic systems. See, e.g., Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C by Bruce Schneier.
A first tag 302 indicates the beginning of a music package definition, or container, for the digital content defined by the manifest. The package has multiple defined items. A first item 304 contains information about the "digital item" (in this case, an electronic version of a music album) described by the manifest, and configuration options regarding handling the contents of the package, e.g., how to prompt a receiver regarding processing songs and other digital content referenced by the manifest.
Each defined item, and the manifest itself, may have arbitrary meta-data to allow associating real-world context with an item. Meta-data is introduced with descriptor tags 320, 322 having definitions 324. A descriptor tag NAME attribute indicates the metadata attribute being defined, and the VALUE attribute supplies an appropriate value. The first item 304 includes a choice tag 306 identified with an ID 308 to allow a receiver of the manifest to choose how to receive songs referenced by the manifest. A selection tag 310, e.g., "pick songs," provides an option for selecting songs individually. It will be appreciated that other selection options, or no options, may be provided.
A subsequent choice tag 312 indicates available songs, e.g., SONG1, SONG2, from which to choose. Note that the choice tag 312 has a condition tag 314 requiring the above "pick songs" selection tag 310. This condition must be satisfied before this choice 312 is acted upon, and it operates in the context of the previous choice tag 306. In such fashion, manifests may be structured to provide choices based on previous selections. Subsequent selection tags 316 define songs that may be individually selected.
A following tag 318 indicates a start of a manifest section for selecting a desired bit rate desired for selected songs. As above with song selection, bit rate selection options (not illustrated) may be included to operate with respect to the method employed for song selection. For example, if an election is made to individually pick songs, then one may be prompted for each song to select a desired bit-rate.
Other choice tags may also be defined to control delivery of the digital content to another party, e.g., to include an address book to facilitate sale or transfer of digital content to another receiver. Tags may also be defined to prompt a receiver to identify a computing platform receiving the manifest, e.g., desktop computer, portable, hand-held device, personal digital assistant (PDA), as each such device may have different format requirements, storage capacities and interface capabilities.
Tags may also be defined to indicate the operating system in use by the receiving device, and to control whether to obtain extra content, such as related videos 230, 236, cover art and related package graphics, lyrics, press reviews, etc. Tags may also be defined to indicate data format preferences, e.g., graphics images should be converted (if necessary) into Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format images, or videos should be in a particular format.
Following various choice tags, are descriptor tags 322 that are at the same hierarchical level as the first item 304 definition, e.g., a music compact disc, and therefore define 324 typical characteristics for the disc. Exemplary illustrated characteristics include the type of music disc defined by the item 304 (an album), an audience rating, album title, creator, contributor, album publisher, and album rights (e.g., copyright information). As discussed above, any of these attributes can be used to control or facilitate organization, content filtering, and re-distribution of digital content.
This description assumes the receiver is a person using an application program or device configured to receive and/or process the manifest, and display choices accordingly. However, note that the receiver may be another application program or device, such as one operating to automatically apply local policies or rules to received manifests, before a manifest is received by a person. In particular, there may be local policies, such as parental controls, and these policies may be used to cause a rewriting of the manifest, e.g., per XML rewriting rules, so that the manifest excludes references to undesirable content.
It will be appreciated that the exemplary
When created, the manifest contains references to identified resources, and if desired, a virtual structure corresponding to a physical good, e.g., a music CD. Thus, a receiving program for a music CD manifest would present a user interface displaying the virtual representation of the physical good. In the CD example, this might include rendering a CD jewel box with appropriate cover art and song listings as defined within the manifest.
A created manifest is sent 402 to an agent for distribution, which in turn stores 404 the manifest in a public storage. Note that the storage need not be publicly accessible, however public access is assumed so that search engines, agents, and other location applications are able to mine and/or index stored manifests. It is assumed that the agent stores the manifest in a database. The digital resources identified by the manifest are stored 406 as well. The digital resources may be stored in public or private storage locations depending on intellectual property rights for the digital resources.
Once the manifest has been created and stored, an agent can receive 408 a search query, e.g., purchase request, database look-up request, etc. The agent searches 410 through the database for manifests corresponding to the query. Assuming manifests are XML based, it will be appreciated that different query languages may be used depending on manifest formatting and database technology used to store the manifests. For example, the agent may use XML Query Language (XQL) queries, Stanford University's Lore query language, or other query languages.
Manifests matching the received 408 query are returned 412 to a requester. This may result in a request to purchase digital content identified by a manifest. Towards this end, the agent would confirm payment for digital content as required by a manifest, and make digital content available to a purchaser. Various known techniques may be employed to provide purchased digital content in a secure fashion so as to reduce possibility of illicit appropriation of the digital content, e.g., temporary names and locations for the digital resources included in the content, creation of secure communications channels or tunnels between the agent and purchases, or the like.
When the manifest is received, a receiver 106, 108 (
In one embodiment, there may be different rules or policies 506 for each user of the receiving device, e.g., the receiving device may be a multiple-user computer, in addition to global rules or policies that are applied 502 to all users of the computing device. For example, parental controls may be used to globally restrict the type of content that any user may receive, or content known to be incompatible with the receiver may be automatically edited out of a manifest. In one embodiment, a received manifest is rewritten 504, if necessary, to comply with the global rules or policies. Note that a remote management system can be used to set or change rules or policies.
After checking the manifest against global rules or policies, user rules or policies are then applied 506 to the manifest, and the manifest again rewritten 508, if necessary, to comply with the user rules or policies. In one embodiment, the process of "rewriting" a manifest is done in a rigorous manner. The rules controlling the rewriting are expressed in declarative form within the manifest itself within <choice> and <selection> tags, and their corresponding <condition> tags. This makes the rewriting process robust, and ensures the resulting rewritten manifest is valid. Once a received manifest has cleared both global and user rules or policies, the resultant manifest is executed or interpreted 510 by the receiver. As discussed above with respect to
In one embodiment, manifests are encoded according to a rules based grammar comprising the following exemplary rules:
Where: a container may be a hierarchical structure allowing items to be grouped to form logical packages that may be transported, exchanged, sold, stored, etc. An item is a grouping of sub-items and/or components associated with relevant meta-data about the item. Items may contain choices for customizing and/or configuring the item, and may be conditioned on predicates asserted by selections defined in the choices. A resource is a collection of data, such as an audio clip, image file, text document, or other data. A component is an association between a resource and all of its relevant meta-data; component meta-data will typically contain control or structural information about a resource, e.g., bit rate, media type, character set, encryption information, etc. A reference designates a portion of a resource, such as a specific location or range within the resource. A "statement" comprises a value and an associated domain for that value. And, a predicate is a non-substitutable token, and in one embodiment, has a true, false, or undecided value.
FIG. 6 and the following discussion are intended to provide a brief, general description of a suitable computing environment in which certain aspects of the illustrated invention may be implemented.
An exemplary system for implementing the invention includes a computing device 600 having system bus 602 for coupling various computing device components. Typically, attached to the bus are non-programmable and programmable processors 604, a memory 606 (e.g., RAM, ROM), storage devices 608, a video interface 610, and input/output interface ports 612. Storage devices include hard-drives, floppy-disks, optical storage, magnetic cassettes, tapes, flash memory cards, memory sticks, digital video disks, and the like.
The invention may be described by reference to different high-level program modules and/or low-level hardware contexts. Those skilled in the art will realize that program modules can be interchanged with low-level hardware instructions. Program modules include procedures, functions, programs, components, data structures, and the like, for performing particular tasks or implementing particular abstract data types. Modules may be incorporated into single and multi-processor computing devices, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), cellular telephones, and the like. Thus, the storage systems and associated media can store data and executable instructions for the computing device.
As discussed above with respect to
It will be appreciated that remote computing devices 614, 616 may be configured like computing device 600, and therefore include many or all of the elements discussed for computing device. It should also be appreciated that computing devices 600, 614, 616 may be embodied in a single device, or separate communicatively-coupled components, and may include or be embodied in routers, bridges, peer devices, web servers, and application programs utilizing network application protocols such as the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and the like.
Having described and illustrated the principles of the invention with reference to illustrated embodiments, it will be recognized that the illustrated embodiments can be modified in arrangement and detail without departing from such principles.
And, even though the foregoing discussion has focused on particular embodiments, it is understood that other configurations are contemplated. In particular, even though expressions such as "in one embodiment," "in another embodiment," or the like are used herein, these phrases are meant to generally reference embodiment possibilities, and are not intended to limit the invention to particular embodiment configurations. As used herein, these terms may reference the same or different embodiments, and unless implicitly or expressly indicated otherwise, embodiments are combinable into other embodiments. Consequently, in view of the wide variety of permutations to the above-described embodiments, the detailed description is intended to be illustrative only, and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the invention.
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"We have a better handle on absentee landlords than we did 10 years ago. Absentee landlords who neglect their properties know that the people in Shaw are going to kick their ass," says Roth. "As a result, we are doing much better, with people taking better care of their properties and making sure their tenants are respectful of their neighbors. We haven't solved the problem, but we've really gotten a handle on it."
As for reaching out to McRee Town, Roth sees the eventual reopening of the Thurman Avenue underpass of I-44 as a symbolic rejoining of the neighborhoods. Shaw Neighborhood Improvement Association president John Merideth says that blocking the underpass was a bad idea.
"There was discussion at the time of actually concreting in or cinderblocking in the whole underpass so there wouldn't be an underpass, the idea being, basically, build your barrier as high as you can build it and don't allow the traffic back and forth," says Merideth. Closing it made it worse because burglars and robbers on foot could escape Shaw and, if they were pursued, "the police would be stuck; they'd have to go all the way to 39th Street or all the way to Tower Grove Avenue, and by then you never could find anybody."
Crime, and the perception of crime spreading from McRee Town, has been a concern for a long time. Earl P. Holt III is a former school-board member, a strident opponent of the voluntary-desegregation program and the archconservative host of Right at Night on WGNU (920 AM). He is glad that something is being planned for McRee Town. And he does not mince words.
"Anything they do to redevelop McRee Town has got to be good, because it's probably the highest concentration of violent crime in the entire city of St. Louis. So anything they do there, from gardening to carpet bombing, sounds good to me," says Holt. "If the Garden is really going to bulldoze everything from Blaine to Lafayette, it'll save me a lot of money in ammo I won't have to buy." Holt admits that crime has eased a bit in the last few years. "My neighbors used to be routinely held up with shotguns and have their doors kicked in," says Holt, who lives on Shaw Boulevard. "That does not seem to be happening anymore."
Winning Floyd over
Had the Missouri Botanical Garden been successful in its plan eight years ago, the current Garden District plan would never have materialized. The Garden's myopic goals would have been realized, and the neighborhoods would have been left to their own fate.
Back in 1991, the Garden's board wanted to issue $7.5 million in bonds to buy its way to the highway.
What the Garden, which receives a tax subsidy through the Zoo-Museum District, had planned to do was to buy all the land between its entrance and Interstate 44, thereby closing off Shaw Boulevard. If attempts to buy the land failed, eminent domain was an option. The roughly one-block-by-two-block area contained 42 buildings and was home to some 250 people, both renters and homeowners. The board had approved the sale of $7.5 million in revenue bonds to buy the land and finance the increased parking and improved access to the interstate. They had even received permission to dismantle the front section of the Garden's stone wall, erected in 1859 under the supervision of Henry Shaw, so that the front entrance could be expanded to I-44.
If that vision had been realized, visitors to the Garden could have steered clear of any funky city scenes by exiting the interstate directly into the parking lot and touring the grounds without having to mix with any of the locals. The plan wasn't leaked to those in the buyout area until the Garden's board had decided to do the deed.
Floyd Wright, who lived on DeTonty Street and led the opposition to the move, thinks that both the plan and the closeted way in which it was devised showed that the Garden folks were out of touch with the nearby neighborhoods. "We were unwilling participants. We had no warning of the expansion to bulldoze and demolish our area," says Wright. "They didn't have any idea who lived over here. They just thought there was a bunch of lowlifes."
Whatever the Garden planners at that time thought, they had to rethink it, because of the vocal and effective protest launched by residents of the Southwest Garden neighborhood, the small sliver of land to the north and west of Shaw's Garden and to the south and east of I-44, Kingshighway Boulevard and Vandeventer Avenue. They hired an attorney, Shulamith Simon, to represent them. Eventually, amid threats of legal action, protest picketing of the Garden and a media feeding frenzy, the Garden backed off from its plan.
When all the turmoil surfaced, Wright was in the midst of a 30-year career as a teacher of remedial reading at Fox High School in Arnold. He describes himself then and now as an "urban pioneer," a term that, when used by Wright, sounds fitting. He moved from the suburbs, buying and living in a four-family flat that he fixed up as he lived in it. He gradually bought other buildings as they became available, including several on one block when news of the Garden plan went public.
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I am so happy to be around to celebrate Pumpkin's birthday this year. Happy 3rd Birthday my dear bratty Pumpkin!! It was a hot hot day yesterday so I gave him a good cold bath.
The many faces of Pumpkin! I managed to snap several photos of him shaking off water from his body, isn't he super adorable?
All clean and fluffy!!!
The serious side of Pumpkin, which is very rare. Actually, he was bored posing for me.
After a tasty chicken drumstick for dinner, Pumpkin had a banana muffin for dessert!
Happy Birthday KinKin!! I will try my best to be home for your 4th birthday next year!!
Monday, February 22, 2010
I am so happy to be around to celebrate Pumpkin's birthday this year. Happy 3rd Birthday my dear bratty Pumpkin!! It was a hot hot day yesterday so I gave him a good cold bath.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
ROAST PORK @ GOLDEN KIMWAH, Damansara Kim
I met up with my food buddies for dinner at Sg Way yesterday. I picked up WMW from her place in SS2 and it took us almost an hour (usually only 5 minutes) to reach Damansara Uptown to pick up Jason. We used the shortcut via Damansara Kim, surprise surprise...everyone is using the shortcut as well! We were literally crawling on the road when we passed Golden Kimwah coffee shop, a place where Hubby and I drop by once in a blue moon for breakfast. WMW got excited as that's her favourite stall for roast pork aka siu yoke. Since we barely moved an inch, I made a quick pit stop. WMW jumped off the car to grab some roast pork while I took out my camera and snap a photo of the coffee shop from inside my car. According to WMW, there are two operators operating from the same stall, one during lunch hour and the other for dinner. The roast pork is from the night operator.
At RM13 per strip, WMW bought 2 strips for us to try. The roast pork is perfectly cut into small bite sizes and each piece is proportionately layered with meat and fats topped with golden skin. It was still warm when I popped the first piece into my mouth, verdict? DELICIOUS!!! The skin is crispy, the meat is juicy and the fats...ooo...melts in your mouth. If I get a box of these roast pork each time I am stuck in a traffic jam, honestly, I wouldn't mind at all.
After picking up Jason, we headed to SS3 to grab Yam Puff (that would be another post) from the night market. It started to rain and we got lost in SS5 and couldn't locate the pasar malam. I stopped my car at the roadside with my hazard light on while waiting for Andrine to rescue us. Psstt...WMW was busy praying for the rain to stop, so determined hor? The Roast Pork became my de-stress tool, a very effective one indeed.
We were late by the time we reached our destination in Sg. Way for dinner. With delicious Roast Pork and yummy yam puffs we brought along to the restaurant, Jackson and Justin didn't mind at all. We decided to toss the remaining pieces of roast pork together with our Yee Sang. Sinful eh? Someone should really start off by offering oink oink yee sang...i can almost imagine using suckling pig's skin!
This would probably be my last post before Chinese New Year, so taking the opportunity to wish everyone a Gong Hei Fatt Choy and may the Tiger Year brings you good health, lots of joy and happiness!!
Golden KimWah is located at:
Corner Shop
Jalan SS20/10,
Damansara Kim, Petaling Jaya
The recommended roast pork is available only in the evening.
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Labels: Eating Out - Klang Valley
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
YAKITORI @ SUMI-KA, Subang Jaya
I love venturing for food with my Makan Gang as they eat absolutely anything and everything, with boundless appetite being the greatest bonus. Last week, we went around scouting for good food from Cheras to Ulu Klang and finally back to Subang Jaya for our last stop for the day at Sumi-Ka. Sumi-Ka is a Japanese grill house specializing in Yakitori (Japanese style grilled chicken skewer) owned by a Japanese. With open kitchen, oppss...it should be 'open-griller' concept, you can opt to sit along the counter-top to watch the Japanese chef in action. Well, provided you don't mind ended up smelling like a Yakitori from top to toe after your meal.
Judging from the name tag on the bottles of unfinished sake and wine on their cabinet, it is evident that their major clientele are Japanese. True enough, the place was soon filled up with Japanese expatriates coming for 'happy hour' after work.
Being a Yakitori restaurant, there are more chicken dishes in the menu, with a few choices of beef and seafood. We aimed to try as much as we could, and what could be easier than ordering everything in the menu? And so, we ordered 2 skewers of everything under the chicken category ranging from RM3 - RM5 per skewers.
I was never a fan of chicken innards, well, I have changed my mind now. The bite-sized pieces of chicken gizzard and heart were grilled to perfection. Seasoned with just salt, it was delicious! I didn't try the chicken liver but I heard it was good too. Heard of chicken blood vessel?? Yep, I had that too! Delicious!
For the first time in my life, I finally had my first taste of chicken tail. Which part? Chicken backside lah! Initially I was skeptical to try but how could I walk away not trying when my Makan Gang kept raving about it? Once I bit on it, I couldn't stop helping myself to more. Seasoned with salt, it was really crispy and aromatic. Not oily as I expected and definitely no unwelcomed smell. I reckon it was even better than having crispy pork fats. Do try their chicken neck meat too, very soft and juicy.
Take your pick! Chicken Breast Meat with Wasabi, Ume (sour plum) or Mentai Mayonnaise? If you are not a fan of breast meat, skip these and go for tender juicy thigh meat.
I was told the skewer on the left was muscle meat while the one on the right is chicken thigh. Both equally good.
Want something to munch on? How about Chicken Soft Bones?
Chicken meatballs and pieces of chicken thigh with spring onions were drenched in tare sauce. Richer in taste and very yummy too.
My favourite chicken wing was grilled to perfection. Crispy skin with juicy meat. No marinade, only seasoned with salt. Another recommendation goes to the grilled chicken skin. Why all the good stuff so unhealthy hor?
Quail Eggs, who doesn't like them?
Before I go on with more meat, here are some photos of the veggies we had. Complimentary fresh cabbage is given with any purchase while the grilled mushroom and green chilies is in the menu. Sadly, they don't have grilled leek in the menu and I was really longing for that.
Next, we move on to beef. We had the beef ribs with spicy miso sauce and beef ribs with miso sauce. Tender but nothing memorable.
I had the first piece of beef tongue in my life.....verdict?? Not too bad but I would rather save my stomach quota for chicken tail, chicken skin, chicken wings, chicken neck meat, chicken gizzard, etc..............
There are also a number of special dishes written in Japanese characters on a small signboard. Clueless on what they were, we ordered all the 10 dishes. Sliced Eringi Mushroom, Bacon wrapped with something gooey and chewy (clueless) and bacon wrapped with something crunchy, it could be turnip.
Bacon wrapped with Fish Roes.....not bad!!
Unidentified black object in the middle. The waiter told us the name in Japanese. Texture was soft, gooey and chewy.
No idea if this was supposed to be enoki mushroom wrapped with bacon, I guess it should be but I find the presentation quite errmm....messy.
Baked Shimeji Mushroom in Butter Sauce was one of their special...nothing memorable.
Finally, grilled pork trotter seasoned with salt. Savour the crispy skin, then devour the gelatinous bits.....honestly, I was so stuffed by then, I could only take one bite.
Overall, am very happy with the excellent service and the fantastic Yakitori. This is definitely a place I will return in very near future. Booking is necessary as the place is quite small and it was full the night we went. Refer to the location map below and Sumi-Ka is located on the 1st floor.
Sumi-Ka is located at:
No. 19, 1st Floor, Jalan SS15/4
47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor
Tel: 03-56329312 or 016-2249312 (Mr Kiyoshi Ota)
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Labels: Eating Out - Klang Valley
Monday, February 01, 2010
REGAL HOUSE @ One Bangsar, KL
My first bowl of "Lap Mei Farn" (waxed meat) for the year!!
To me, Lap Mei Farn is a once-a-year delicacy during the Chinese New Year. This year, I am very lucky to sample a range of waxed meat brought in all the way from Yung Kee Restaurant, the famous Michelin-awarded roasted goose restaurant in Hong Kong. True enough, 'branded' stuff really makes a huge difference. I am totally in love with the preserved goose liver sausages which is so rich in taste and the presence of Chinese wine in every bite! The waxed duck was good too. It wasn't overly salty and it didn't have the usual 'oily' smell that you find in waxed duck.
The waiter was scooping the waxed-meat-infused-rice into individual bowls before I rushed over for a photo. It smells so so so good. I would have no problem having it on its own without the waxed meat as it was bursting with flavour. One bite and I could taste bits and pieces of salted fish added into the rice for extra ommphh! Big thumbs up! At the end of the meal, everyone was eyeing for the burnt bits and scrapped the claypot clean!
The Yung Kee Waxed Meat Claypot Rice is available at Regal House at One Bangsar during the Chinese New Year season, while stocks last.
Regal House is the latest addition to the One Bangsar family. The chef is from Hong Kong and Regal serves innovative cuisines inspired by traditional Cantonese culinary styles. Simple and pleasantly decorated, I was told most of the furniture and fittings were brought in from China.
There are five VIP dining rooms on the first floor catered for business or private dining functions. A must to call and book in advance.
I met up with my floggers sisters, Boolicious, AWOL and Paprika on my first visit to Regal House. We were quite impressed with the Deep Fried Lion Fish (九肚魚) in Salt & Pepper (RM13). It was lightly battered and the fish was fine and sweet.
Herb-Crusted Smoke Duck with Fruit Salad, very Western style don't you think? But surprise surprise, it was the star dish of the night. The duck tasted superb! Moist and tender. The garlicky crispy bits on top goes so well with the duck! This is an appetizer dish so you can either request for it to be sliced and shared, otherwise order one serving each at RM18 per serve.
Initially I wanted to try their Beef Brisket Soup but was told that I need to book it 3 days in advance as there are lots of preparation for that soup. So we settled for the Preserved Mustard Green with Pork Stomach Soup (RM68 serves 5). The soup was sweet with slight peppery taste and I spotted few slices of JinHua Ham (expensive dried cure ham from China).
The Deep Fried Spare Ribs with Garlic Black Pepper Sauce (RM25) was not too bad but I find it a bit too salty for my tastebud. Goes well with rice though.
The Hot Pot Kailan in Seafood Sauce (RM23) was served sizzling hot! Tried this dish once in Hong Kong and I got to say, Regal's version is milder but tastier. I love the crunchy sweet kailan stems.
Vietnam Fresh Prawn Pan Fried Yee Mee was done the Hong Kong style whereas I expected it to be the local "Sang Har Meen" version with lots of egg gravy. Not too bad for a change. Our serving with two big prawns was priced at RM76 (price varies depending on the weight of the prawns).
Lastly, Chilled Minty Lemongrass Flavoured Fruit Jelly to end the meal (RM9 per glass). The restaurant's manager insist we should drink the dessert from the glass instead of pouring it out into bowls (we were sharing the dessert). She said it would taste better that way and so we tried. I love the refreshing taste of lemongrass and all the different types of texture in my mouth all at once.
The Lemongrasses!
Regal House is located at:
One Bangsar
63E Jalan Ara,
Bangsar Baru 59100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-2283.3116
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Chinese New Year Set is now available, do call in advance to reserve!
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SENIOR OFFENSIVE TACKLE Jason Lenzmeier
(On usually starting the season out slow.)
"It might be a mental thing. We need to overcome that, get out there and try not to make mistakes."
(On what they want to accomplish against Texas State-San Marcos.)
"We want to come out, run and throw the ball, and have success on offense. The defense will take care of itself, we never have to worry about them. We want to come out as an offensive line and play well early. We want to run the ball and hopefully get DonTrell (Moore) some yards."
(On sophomore running back DonTrell Moore being named a Doak Walker Award Candidtate.)
" It is a privilege for him and it speaks pretty highly of us, but all the praise nationally gets put aside (on Saturday). We have to go out and play."