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POP VIEW;If Colin Powell Sang and Played Guitar . . .
By Ann Powers
Published: November 5, 1995
THE TWO-WEEK PERIOD en-compassing both the O. J. Simpson verdict and the Million Man March also produced these two comic moments: the cast of NBC's Uber-yuppie hit show "Friends" stumbled and argued its way through a Hootie and the Blowfish concert. And on "Saturday Night Live," Tim Meadows played Hootie's lead singer, Darius Rucker, as a gimme-cap-wearing, beer-swilling Louis Farrakhan, leading a nation of white fraternity boys in a boisterous march to celebrate their solidarity in privileged obnoxiousness.
It's not surprising that Hootie and the Blowfish should serve as comic relief amid serious racial tensions, although it's not the role the group might have chosen for itself. The South Carolina group makes its large, primarily white but definitely integrated audience feel comfortable not only because of its soothing music but because its very existence is the pop-culture fruit of an old ideal. A rock group led by a black man, playing easy-to-swallow soft rock indebted to both Bob Dylan and Sam Cooke, Hootie embodies the liberal dream of a successful civil rights movement.
These are average guys who met on the same dorm floor during college and presumably didn't even think about how unusual a mixed-raced mainstream pop group might be. Loath to talk about politics in interviews, they display them when necessary: Mr. Rucker's protest of the flying of the Confederate flag over the South Carolina Statehouse cost the group the state's coveted Palmetto award.
And although it's rarely pointed out in coverage of the band, its multiplatinum album, "Cracked Rear View," which has dominated the pop charts for the better part of this year, addresses the issue of racial injustice directly: on the song "Drowning," Mr. Rucker sings bitterly of those who tell him to "go back to Africa" and ends with a rousing reprise of the James Brown caveat "I'm a man!"
This is not just black pride but integrationist pride. Mr. Rucker's why-can't-we-all-just-get-along rhetoric condemns black nationalism as well as white bigotry; like his political counterpart, Colin L. Powell, he manages to be both black and separable from blackness, able to contain his racial identity as just one aspect of his identity. To present himself as totally within black culture would be as much a lie as denying his race.
The same is true, musically, of Hootie and the Blowfish. The songs may be more Elton John than Earth, Wind and Fire, but they're powered by Mr. Rucker's vocal style, which follows in a long tradition of black baritones from Paul Robeson to Billy Eckstine and Jerry Butler. This style expresses soulfulness while avoiding current black vernacular; it takes from gospel but also from Broadway, which originally "elevated" black singing by presenting it as a form of the hymn. (There's even a snippet of "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" on "Cracked Rear View.")
Mr. Rucker updates this technique with an odd trick: he mimics white singers like Michael Bolton who mimic black singers. He also shares some tendencies with the rhythm-and-blues superstars Boyz II Men, who approach soulfulness as nostalgia. In both cases, Mr. Rucker seems to invoke artists who embrace soul but reject the more modern -- and more strictly black -- influence of hip-hop.
Why would this rather bland blend capture the hearts of America's middle class? Because at its core is a story that's both classically American and particularly appropriate given the increasing gap in understanding between nonwhites and whites -- the story of interracial romance. Although the women Mr. Rucker sings about are not identified racially, one song on "Cracked Rear View," "Look Away," strongly suggests the theme of love that's forbidden because it crosses the race boundary.
Then there's the family romance of the band: in one video, Mr. Rucker and the drummer, Jim (Soni) Sonefield, exchange a brotherly kiss on the cheek. Finally, by recording anthems about interpersonal relationships, like the ubiquitous "Hold My Hand," Hootie and the Blowfish present romantic longing as the essence of feeling and the motivating force behind any political conviction. Although they're usually regarded as totally innocuous, Hootie and the Blowfish do have a message: love conquers all, even the divisions of race. IN THE LIGHT OF THE SIMPSON trial, which began as a story of an interracial romance gone berserk and ended with the message that blacks and whites can't even comprehend each other, much less share love, Hootie and the Blowfish provide a comforting fantasy; the vulnerability Mr. Rucker expresses in his songs contrasts drastically with the Casanova image of rhythm-and-blues lovers and the casual misogyny of much hip-hop.
The fact that the band does address race makes Mr. Rucker not just another Eddie Vedder but also a kind of spokesman; his view represents that of the liberal, college-educated, mixed-race milieu to which he belongs. Hootie and the Blowfish are an ideal band for the professional class that includes blacks and whites, Asians and Latinos, and other ethnicities, all retaining a sense of their own communities but not living strictly within them. The band's color-blind attitude suggests that such actions as the Million Man March, which showed that one ethnic group could focus on itself and find empowerment, are irrelevant.
The problem with this portrait of integration is that it assumes harmony can be achieved without much change as long as we're brave and openhearted. But real integration would mean a melding of cultures that would alter the face of American life. In Britain, where the black-white divide is defined by a multifaceted colonial heritage rather than the legacy of slavery, groups like Tricky and Cornershop are making music that's as much about racial integration as is "Cracked Rear View."
But these groups start with the assumption that such culture mashing will produce strange new sounds to suit as-yet-undefined identities. Instead of the clear bellow of Darius Rucker rising above it all, this music takes the listener into the babble of the streets, where a new language is growing, one that none of us feel comfortable with yet but that is the only one we'll be able to speak in the mixed-up years to come.
Photos: Darius Rucker of Hootie and the Blowfish and, below, the band(Mark Bryan, left, Mr. Rucker, Dean Felber and Jim Sonefield)--The group represents a liberal dream. (Edward Keating/The New York Times;Stephen Danelian/Atlantic Records)


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Noticed this after upgrading to Beta 5, 5.1.66370, although this may have started in the last beta build.
I have four HP Procurve 2848 switches. The names on all four changed to be very close to what their DNS names are. There is a "-" near the end of their DNS names and it seems that SW changed the name to be the DNS name up to but not including the dash. Also, in three out of the four, the product number and purchase date values seem to have disappeared.
I also have a pair of HP Procurve 2524 switches with very similar DNS names. It appears that SW has lost the product number and purchase date for one of the two switches.
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Can you send me an SNMP walk from this device? See this post for instruction on how to do so:
I'll PM you with the details on uploading the walk to us.
Apr 12, 2011 at 1:01 UTC
I ran another scan this monring and it looks like the four HP Procurve 2848 devices have been combined into a single device. At least all the warranties seem to be listed under one device and I don't see the other three under the main devices group right now.
I've uploaded the snmp walk file from one of the devices. I ran it against the other problem switches, in case you want to see those as well.

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- • Limited Access Authorizations (LAAs) for Non-U.S. Citizens
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DSS International Division Frequently Asked Questions
Security Assurances for Cleared Individuals and Facilities
- How do I know if a visit request is approved?
- How far in advance must an international visit request be submitted?
- Can a facility create and use their own visit request forms?
- Who can submit visit requests to DSS?
- Can we submit a visit request through JPAS for NATO visits?
- Does DSS provide a DSS stamped copy of the visit request back to the facility security officer?
- We have an individual traveling to a NATO site and the NATO point of contact is requesting a NATO Security Clearance Certificate (NSCC). How do we obtain a NSCC?
- What do I need to do if an employee on a current request for visit has separated or been removed from a contract?
- Can I hire a foreign national as a consultant to work on a classified contract overseas?
- If an individual was previously granted an LAA and changed contracting companies; do they need a new letter of justification (LOJ)?
International Transfers of Classified Information
- My company is going to let a classified subcontract to a foreign subcontractor. How do I proceed?
- Can I use FedEx to transmit foreign classified material to their Embassy in D.C.?
- There's an urgent need to hand carry our classified proposal to a foreign government. What steps should be taken?
- What does it mean if the visit from a foreign contractor is non-sponsored?
- An international visitor arrived with a SECRET classified CD. What do I do?
- We want to establish an office in Europe. Can I have an office overseas cleared with storage?
- Can I add related unclassified items to a DSP -85?
- My company employs foreign nationals. Are we required to have a Technology Control Plan (TCP)?
Security Assurances for Cleared Individuals and Facilities
1. How do I know if a visit request is approved?
DSS does not approve visit requests, it is up to the Foreign Government to accept and approve the request. However, it is the contractors responsibility to certify that the information to be released during each visit has been approved for release by the appropriate designated authority and an export authorization has been granted. To verify approval of the visit request, please coordinate with the foreign site POC prior to departure.
2. How far in advance must an international visit request be submitted?
Each countrys NSA/DSA establishes its own requirements regarding RFV lead times. DSS requires five (5) business days in addition to the Foreign Governments lead time requirement in order to process each RFV. DSS will only accept visits 90 days or less from the start date.
Note: Foreign Governments can change their RFV lead times without notice. For the most current information regarding country lead times and requirements associated with international classified visits email firstname.lastname@example.com.
3. Can a facility create and use their own visit request forms?
DSS will only accept the forms located on our website as the forms contain specific requirements. All other versions of the forms will be rejected.
4. Who can submit visit requests to DSS?
DSS processes outgoing visit requests for U.S. cleared contractors. DSS only accepts visit requests from the security office of a cleared DOD contractor. The visitors listed on the form must be employed by the cleared facility submitting the request. We do not process visit requests for military or government employees.
5. Can we submit a visit request through JPAS for NATO visits?
Visit requests to NATO Sites cannot be submitted by your company via JPAS or in a visit request directly to NATO. A visit request form is required to be submitted to DSS for processing.
6. Does DSS provide a DSS stamped copy of the visit request back to the facility security officer?
Once DSS has processed the visit request and submitted the form to the appropriate Foreign Government, DSS will notify the FSO via email the visit has been processed. DSS will not provide the facility the stamped copy of the visit request.
7. We have an individual traveling to a NATO site and the NATO point of contact is requesting a NATO Security Clearance Certificate (NSCC). How do we obtain a NSCC?
NSCCs are only processed by DSS if they accompany a valid visit request. NSCCs are site specific and must only be for the duration of the visit.
8. What do I need to do if an employee on an approved request for visit has separated or been removed from a contract?
A facility is required to submit an amendment to remove a visitor upon separation, removal from a contract, or loss of eligibility.
9. Can I hire a foreign national as a consultant to work on a classified contract overseas?
No. A consultant shall not be assigned outside the United States with responsibilities requiring access to classified information. (NISPOM 10-601c)
10. If an individual was previously granted an LAA and changed contracting companies; do they need a new letter of justification (LOJ)?
LAA access is limited to a specific U.S. Government contract. A new LOJ is required.
International Transfers of Classified Information
1. My company is going to let a classified subcontract to a foreign subcontractor. How do I proceed?
You must request verification of the foreign companys facility security clearance (FCL) and storage capability from DSS International Division (fax 571-305-6010) prior to awarding the subcontract. Also reference NISPOM 10-202: If you are authorized to award a subcontract with a foreign contractor that will involve classified information you are required to provide DSS with a copy of the contracts classification guidance with the international security clauses that you are providing to your foreign subcontractor
2. Can foreign classified information be mailed to U.S. embassies abroad using a Diplomatic Post Office address?
Foreign classified information CANNOT be mailed to a Diplomatic Post Office address. However Secret and Confidential material may be transmitted by registered mail through U.S. Army, Navy, or Air Force postal facilities (reference NISPM 5-405 b).
3. There's an urgent need to hand carry our classified proposal to a foreign government. What steps should be taken?
. Is there an approved export authorization? Is the size such that it can be maintained in the personal possession of the courier? Notify your IS Rep and provide a "Hand carriage request" that includes the necessary information (cite export authorization, courier data, date & itinerary, identity of foreign recipient, etc., reference NISPOM 10-405). The request has to be submitted to DSS at least 5 work days in advance of the transfer date. DSS has to coordinate the arrangements and obtain approval from the recipient government's security authority. The courier has to be a full-time cleared employee. Brief the courier on his/her responsibilities. Complete a Courier Certificate. The courier is to travel a direct route with no overnight layover, no stops in 3rd countries and should be traveling on a US or the recipient government flag airline. If the courier is going to stay and brief the proposal, than a visit request should have been submitted to DSS International Division with the required amount of lead-time.
Upon concurrence from DSS that the request has been approved, make arrangements to meet with your U.S. DGR for the government transfer.
4. What does it mean if the visit from a foreign contractor is non-sponsored?
If a visit is non-sponsored, the visit can still occur if your facility is in receipt of an approved export authorization to subject country. The response from the visit office would contain the security clearances of the visitors and it is the notification that the requesting government has provided the required security assurances to the U.S. Government. If a classified visit is sponsored by a US govt/military activity, then an export authorization is not required, as the sponsored visit authorization provides the disclosure guidance. If the visit is denied, the visit can occur, but only information in the public domain can be discussed. The process is initiated when the foreign government submits a visit request into the DoD Foreign Visits System (FVS). The foreign contractor facility or foreign government entity usually sends the visit request through their embassy in Washington, D.C. The request should be submitted 21 working days prior to the visit to allow for processing. Once their embassy enters it into the FVS, it is forwarded to the applicable Defense Visit Offices for review. The visit will either be sponsored (government approved), non-sponsored or denied. Notification of the approval will be forwarded to your facility and it will contain disclosure instructions on the classified and unclassified information involved, and any limitations.
5. An international visitor arrived with a SECRET classified CD. What do I do?
An improper receipt of foreign government material that is not received through government channels must be reported to DSS per NISPOM 10-311. The foreign visitor failed to submit the hand carry request through his government security authority for approval. When hand carrying classified material internationally, the security authorities of the receiving government (DSS) must first be notified of the plan from the sending government (NISPOM 10-405). It's the same as when one of your employees requests to hand carry classified material, the arrangements have to be coordinated and approved by both governments prior to being allowed to proceed with the plan.
6. We want to establish an office in Europe. Can I have an office overseas cleared with storage?
No. Refer to NISPOM 10-602 a. The storage of classified information by a contractor employee at any location abroad that is not under U.S. Government control is prohibited. The storage may be at a U.S. military facility, a U.S. Embassy or Consulate, or other location occupied by a U.S. Government organization.
Please note that your employees shall not store classified information at overseas divisions or subsidiaries that are located in a foreign country. Access to classified information is governed by the laws and regulations of the country in which the division or subsidiary is registered or incorporated (NISPOM 10-602 d.).
U.S. contractor employees assigned to foreign government or foreign contractor facilities under a direct commercial sales arrangement will be subject to the host-nation's industrial security policies.
Additionally, unless a waiver was granted by DSS headquarters, be aware that a consultant shall not be assigned outside the U.S. with responsibilities that require access to classified information in accordance with NISPOM requirement 10-601 c.
7. Can I ship related unclassified items under a DSP -85?
No, unclassified material should not be shipped out under a DSP -85 "Application/License for Permanent/Temporary Export or Temporary Import of Classified Defense Articles and Related Classified Technical Data." It is unlawful for anyone to ship unclassified commodities on a classified license. Unclassified material is to be shipped on a Form DSP -5, "Application/License for Permanent Export of Unclassified Defense Articles and Related Unclassified Technical Data." The mixing of classified and unclassified items on a license is not allowed. What is permitted is when unclassified items are part of an assembled unit or system (actually bolted on at time of export).
Additionally, only items specifically listed on the license may be shipped. A statement such as "associated infrastructure" does not justify acceptance of unlisted items. It can only refer to a list that must be approved with the license application. Only those items on the list are approved for export.
8. My company employs foreign nationals. Are we required to have a Technology Control Plan (TCP)?
If your facility is performing on classified contract, you should have a TCP unless your cognizant DSS Field Office determines that procedures already in place at your facility are adequate. A TCP is required to control access by foreign nationals assigned to, or employed by, cleared contractor facilities (NISPOM 10-509). The TCP shall define what needs to be protected. Controls are necessary to ensure that no transfer of export-controlled information occurs unless authorized.
The TCP outlines the specific information that has been authorized for release to the foreign personnel or visitors, and provides disclosure guidelines for access. The use of badges, escorts, or segregated work areas would be examples of the types of access controls that can be used by your facility. These efforts will make the foreign employee or visitor more visible, thus reminding employees of their presence.
All foreign persons should be briefed on the provisions of the TCP. U.S. citizen employees should be knowledgeable of the information that can be disclosed or accessed by foreign nationals. They should receive a copy of the TCP and be briefed on the contents of the plan.


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What Do You Prefer to Be Called at the Salon?
While one of my friends was attending cosmetology school, she started chatting me up about a lesson they were learning about building rapport with their clients. First rule? Never refer to your client as a time, especially when they are within earshot. For example, shouting, "Sally, your 5:00 is here!" would be a bad thing. I get the concept, as it's a bit rude to be referred to as a number. But then the other day, I walked down to the new salon I've been going to over the past few months. After being greeted by the receptionist, she immediately got on the loudspeaker and blurted, "(Name of stylist), your client's here." I'm not sure why, but I found it to be a little unprofessional. Maybe it was just all of the shouting. When you hit up the salon, what do you prefer to be called? Are you OK with client, customer, and the like, or do you prefer to be called by your name?


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Raleigh, N.C. — Politicians' practice of putting earmarks in the budget with names attached for pet projects was banned in 2010, but many watchdog groups say earmarks aren't really gone, just redefined and sometimes underground.
This year alone, the Pentagon received hundreds of millions of dollars from lawmakers for things it didn't request. For instance, lawmakers added money to keep making an Army tank, which the Army is phasing out, because lawmakers want to keep jobs at the factories that make the tank.
"Now it's done outside the public view. It's not transparent," said North Carolina State University political science professor Andy Taylor. "We just don't know how, in many ways, they are pulling the strings."
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Allison says news releases may provide clues, but still no paper trail.
For instance, 1st District Congressman G.K. Butterfield celebrated a $128,000 grant for Elizabeth City State University for cellular research. His office said he participated in the check presentation but did not help secure the funding
The ban on earmarks is also leading to other creative ways to find cash. One example is commemorative coins. From Girl Scouts to five-star generals, requests are on the rise to make the coins for nonprofits to sell. There's no taxpayer expense as long as collectors buy enough to recoup the cost, but it's a way to get money back to constituents, and the government is on the hook if they don't sell.
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And so it was.
They were sitting across from each other at a pleasant little table just out of the bustle of the main flow of traffic. Close enough to hear the syncopated melody of the daboo wheel above the murmuring talk of patrons. It was comforting in away, all this hustle and bustle. It was always so easy to go unnoticed in a crowd. So easy to overhear what people wanted to keep hidden. The air was thick with potential. There were so many things he could learn and yet he was missing a great deal of it. Most of his attention was, as ever, focused on his dinner companion.
Bashir was talking about some recent novel that he had read some convoluted (according to him) mystery adventure that he thought Garak would enjoy. He was going over the finer points at the moment, as though to tempt Garak with little bits of mystery so that he might pick the book up himself at some point to read. Well of course Garak would read it; far be it from him to simply brush aside the doctor's hard work, he all ready had several ideas of who the murderers were and who (he smirked inwardly) was innocent. It was all rather mundane and if it was anyone other than Julian Bashir relating this to him he would have smiled politely and let his mind wander to other things.
The fascination, however, lay not in what Bashir was saying but how he was saying it. The mildly elevated pitch to his voice, the occasional sharp movement of an elegant hand, slightly dilated pupils all told of repressed excitement. Garak had the feeling that if he were just marginally closer he could feel the rise in Bashir's body heat as small amounts of adrenaline coursed through his system. All this because of a simple memory of a book. It was truly intoxicating watching him go on. This almost aggressive passion. Really Garak could almost smell it.
"But maybe I should stop," said Bashir, a quick smile flashing over hard white teeth. "You're looking a little glazed."
"Oh no," Garak said with a blink. "I am absolutely fascinated. Please don't let me stop you." He gave the doctor a look designed to be reeking with sincerity bordering on sarcasm as he sipped his drink. It was coffee, a thoroughly terran drink designed for thoroughly terran palates; it was frankly disgusting but warm against his lips.
"Right," said Bashir, though he seemed like he half believed him anyway. Such sweet naïveté, such trust…but of course he didn't fully believe him and that is what added to his charm.
"Why, doctor, it seems you think I am completely incapable of telling the truth. I am truly interested in what you have to say." He let that sink in, taking a moment to have another sip of that vile little drink. Bashir took a breath as if he was going to speak. "After all," Garak continued. "It's interesting to see you become so enamored of a book with no literary value whatsoever. It's rather like watching a shuttle wreck."
The barb sunk home. He could see the heat rise to Bashir's face, though it darkened his complexion only slightly. It wasn't anger. No such simple emotion would suffice for his doctor. The tug of a smirk at the corner of his lips, the slight narrowing of his eyes (that seemed to darken with the shift in emotion) spoke of rising to the challenge.
"Well maybe it's not up to your standards of literature, but it's a fun read." He put the padd on the table, his slender sensitive fingers pressing down on the darkness of the padd as he slid it toward Garak. "Give it a chance. I think you'll like it."
Garak regarded the padd for a moment, though his mind was more focused on Bashir's fingers, the soft brown of the skin the well maintained fingernails, gently rounded. Delicate..no… hardly that. Elegant. That was better.
"So you've been saying for the past twenty minutes," said Garak, sweeping out his hand to slide the padd closer to him and, quite on accident, brushing fingertips over the doctor's skin as he did so. So wonderfully deviously warm. But quickly enough he had lifted the padd and was thumbing through the text without really reading it. "But I still fail to see your reason, doctor. It sounds like every other mystery novel to me."
"You'll like it because everyone is guilty," Bashir said, settling back in his chair and smiling as if he'd just won a point and indeed he had. Garak was intrigued inspite of himself. Yet he couldn't believe it entirely. Everyone guilty? In a human novel? It couldn't be true.
"Oh?" said Garak. "No mistaken identities? No one being framed by some mysterious faction within the government?" Humans, it seemed, did so love mysterious factions in the government. It was as if they couldn't take their own ruling body at face value. It was something Garak admired about them. "Surely there must be some form of whiny adolescent caught in over his head?"
"None of that," said Bashir with that smile again. So self satisfied while at the same time so very charming. "In fact the only one innocent-"
"Ah," said Garak, setting the padd aside and going back to his thick spicy soup. It was delicious but he knew he would end up regretting it later.
"Is the detective," Bashir continued, the smile fading as he once again leaned forward. His face so young and eager. "But he doesn't count, Garak. He's the hero."
"So of course he is allowed to get away with anything, including going against the wishes of their superiors." Truly a dangerous man. "Or breaking the law. The detective in the last book trespassed on private property more than once and I do recall illegal surveillance in there somewhere."
"Yes but the point is they were doing it for the benefit of others," said Bashir. "If Detective Perriot hadn't broken the law that little girl could very well have died."
"Perhaps so but because he did he put his superior in a very bad position."
"Well the superior can live through it," Bashir said with a half smile, voice tinged with sarcasm. He didn't approve of Garak's sentiment. "Anyway it was all right in the end." And here his smile turned sly. Such a range of expression he had. Or perhaps Garak had been studying his face for entirely too long. "Don't you think the end justifies the means?"
And that too was a very Cardassian sentiment but couched in very human terms. It was hypocritical in a way, because Garak knew the doctor didn't truly believe it. Bashir leaned in, resting his elbow on the table and his chin on his fist, smiling as if he had just won a point. He looked, if possible, even younger than his thirty years. Youth looked good on him, Garak decided. Arrogance gave his face a certain light. He looked so soft, so vulnerable somehow. Only his eyes spoiled the illusion, shining with a savage intellect. Bashir gave the impression of waiting, not to be told he was right, but to be argued with, to clash with an intelligence as sharp as his own. And who was Garak to deny him?
"I wonder, would you say the same thing if the hero, oh say, murdered a puppy or pushed some innocent old woman off a bridge" or twisted a separator between a man's ribs and pushed the button until bones creaked and the man screamed out information even as he gagged on the blood filling his lungs. "In order to save the life of the little girl?"
"But he wouldn't do anything like that," said Bashir. "That's what makes him the hero. A real hero wouldn't have to resort to those measures." Then a real hero doesn't exist, Garak wanted to say. But he didn't. Because with every mystery that the good doctor read, he became that hero. He seemed too long to be the one that saved the day and rescued everyone from certain doom. It was as foolish as it was amusing.
"My dear doctor it seems you have a frightening case of optimism. You should get that looked at, you know. It could get you in a lot of trouble one day." After all, the higher the hopes the more crushing the failure, or so they said.. "A good hero can't always save the day." Nor could a bad hero, nor could a group of heroes no matter how hard they tried.
"Well your pessimisim is even worse," he said. "More often then not, the good guys do win. There is hope in the universe, Garak. You just have to believe in it." Garak smiled though he felt irritation twitch down his spine. Wonderful. Good old Federation under your scales optimism. As if Bashir truly had any inkling of the terrors of the universe. As if everything could be solved by a hypospray and a smile. But he couldn't hate Bashir, wouldn't allow himself to. The doctor was the one person on the station, it seemed, with a mind. He was the only one Garak could truly talk to and so he let himself relax, one muscle at a time, slowing his breathing just a touch but not so it would be blatantly obvious.
"I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree," said Garak pleasantly. He sipped at the coffee and made a face. It had gone cold. It seemed to be appropriate given the gulf that had opened up between them. Though one completely from Garak's side. Bashir was becoming increasingly alien. Oh he always was to be sure but Garak hated to be reminded of it. Reminded that they could talk every day at lunch but never be friends in the truest sense of the word. Ah well he'd never expected it.
An awkward silence that fell over them then and Garak's annoyance grew, circling around his intestines now, curling up his chest until it was a ball under his collar bone. He was irritated with the silence, that he had let it happen. He was irritated because he was being irritated. How could he let such a simple emotion overcome him? A simple conversation? He had spent to long here, surrounded creatures full of passion and lacking in self control. Cardassia… His home had never seemed so far away.
"Garak…" said the doctor, sounding concerned but seeming uncertain how to voice it. The emotion was sincere, Garak knew. Bashir was nearly devoid of emotional pretense. Did it ever make him feel uncomfortable? Garak wondered. To have his emotions splayed across his face like that like some sand painting.
"Don't mind me, doctor. I'm just feeling a little homesick," said Garak, surprised at his own sincerity. It was good to have a little sincerity now and again, though. It threw people off track. "This…coffee has gone cold and I'm growing tired of the cold. I miss heat." Stifling, oppressive heat that cloaked around you with a presence all its own "Which is probably why I spend time with you," Garak said, to lighten the mood, at least for himself.
Bashir chuckled, a soft easy sound though somehow seeming more surprised than anything else. Interesting.
"What is that supposed to mean?" he asked, shifting slightly, perhaps a bit uncomfortable with the sudden turn of conversation, perhaps just redistributing his weight. Garak was tempted not to expound on what he meant and see what conclusions the doctor came up with. However it could very well be something that put further strain on their pseudo friendship and so Garak was obliged to continue.
"Well usually when we have our little chats, you become…oh…impassioned," He let that word rest for a moment, then continued. "I'm sure you know what it does to your body heat."
"So what are you saying? I'm some sort of thermal blanket?" Bashir said, light and amused. Now there was a thought. Bashir's loose limbed body tucked over his, pressed skin against scales, puffs of warm sleeping breath drifting over his cheek and sounding in his ears. And as long as he was imagining that, why not add the image of Dukat in a badly tailored dress singing his own short comings. Amusing but a mood killer though the two scenarios had the same likelihood of happening.
"And an interesting dining companion," Garak said, toasting the human with his coffee cup and remembering almost too late that it was cold. He set the cup down and contemplated getting another, though perhaps something more agreeable.
"Well thank you, Garak," said Bashir with a ready smile and light sarcasm. "I think." He didn't believe him. Well Garak would just have to convince him. Though it was a dangerous thing to do. Bashir might take it the wrong way. On the other hand, Bashir might take it the right way and wouldn't that be fun? Most likely, Bashir wouldn't take it any way. For such a brilliant man he couldn't see the clues scattered right in front of his nose. It didn't seem to occur to him that there might be something more…
"I am quite serious, doctor," said Garak, lacing his fingers together and resting them on the table. He could feel that the soup was getting cold too and saw it slowly congealing out of the corner of his eye. He let himself ignore it. "There is a psychological term for those who indulge in relationships with exothermic species merely for their body heat."
"Is this considered some sort of mental imbalance?" Bashir asked, seeming to warm to the subject despite himself. Garak wondered if he would be looking it up in the database later to double check. He wouldn't find much. It wasn't in Cardassian nature to put all their psychological foibles in a database for all the galaxy to see. Though he wondered what the doctor would root out for himself. He seemed very adept at getting information when he was curious about something. An eager mind, a nose for intrigue, a vast cunning intelligence… Were he Cardassian the Obsidian Order would be salivating over him.
"Of course not, doctor it's merely a term. You might think us a close minded people but as far as relationships are concerned we are really quite open." Of course there were relationships and there was commitment. There weren't many exothermic partners on Cardassia Prime, only one that Garak knew of distantly. It took a wealthy man to do something like that. Wealthy and above the ridicule and disgust of his neighbors. It might be…have been a common enough practice here on Bajor and other Cardassian outposts, but on the home world it was almost akin to being a traitor. Raising an exotherm, or any species, to the same level as Cardassian was considered a grave insult. As if other species could even compare. Or so went the common thought.
"Why do I have the feeling there's something you're not telling me?" Bashir took a sip off his drink and Garak watched the play of his lips on the glass without letting his gaze center on them. Watching without watching. He wished his own food had not grown so disgusting so that he could have something to do with his hands, some prop to busy himself with that wouldn't distract him from the sight sitting across from him.
"You always do. One day I really am going to have to teach you to separate fact from fiction." Which of course he never would. "As it happens I was merely pointing it out just in case you ever find a Cardassian you happen to be attracted to." It was amateurish really. Right there out in the blazing open were even a child could pick up the blatant clue. But the doctor, oh the dear sweet innocent doctor, couldn't seem to conceive the possibility and so missed it completely. He finished his drink in a definitive motion and Garak watched his throat working, the subtle shift of skin, the bobbing of his adams apple. Such a curious name for a curious piece of human architecture. He wanted to feel it against the palm of his hand.
"Well should that situation ever arise, I'll keep what you said in mind." Bashir set the cup down and Garak quickly returned his gaze to the doctor's face. But he was putting his glass on his tray, arranging the cutlery so it would be of less danger of falling. Garak felt cold all ready but smiled. Another lunch done.
"Anyway," Bashir said, starting to stand. "I had better be-" He looked up, staring at something over Garak's shoulder. "…getting …some dessert." He sat back down again, still staring. It didn't take a secret operative to know the nature of the dessert that Bashir had in mind. Though it did take a good friend—companion to know that he had been making big brown eyes at a new waitress for going on two weeks now.
"Would this happen to be a Bajoran dessert?" Garak said, turning to look at whoever had caught the doctor's attention. A hot hand on his wrist startled him, thanks to his training he barely twitched though certain fluids rushed to places it would really be better for them not to go. Garak glanced back at the doctor who was giving him a particularly piercing look that certainly didn't help Garak's biology.
"Don't turn around," the human hissed in a whisper. "She'll think I was looking at her." Garak cocked his head to the side so he could hear Bashir better, though the doctor had managed to pitch his voice just in Garak's range.
"But you were looking at her," Garak said, deciding to be deliberately obtuse. It was either that or let Bashir's tight grip, the heat of individual fingers against the sensitivity of his wrist, drive him to utter and embarrassing distraction. He was sure the doctor wouldn't appreciate him lifting those warm brown fingers to his mouth and sucking on each individual one like they were an exquisite specimen of olive.
"And she is a waitress," Garak continued. "I imagine she's used to getting looked at." Especially by Bashir. Well he was hardly subtle about it, was he?
"Yes, but I don't want her to know that I'm looking at her," said Bashir, still in that fevered whisper. It put Garak in mind of an adolescent, spying his lover and ducking behind a nearby bush in order to watch without being seen.
"Then I will," said Garak turning and spotting the Bajoran waitress at another table, smiling at something the customer was saying.
"Excuse me," Garak said, flaring his fingers in a gesture.
"Garak," Bashir hissed. Garak ignored him. The waitress turned and spotted him and her smile went cold on her face. Cardassian, her very pose said. Her fingers tightened against her tray like she wasn't sure if she wanted to flee or hit him with it. Her gaze slid away then as if she'd just decided to ignore him. Well that wouldn't do at all.
"Excuse me," he said again. "But my shy friend wishes to sample some of your desserts." He gestured to the doctor and he could hear the human suddenly straighten, the intense heat leaving his wrist but leaving an aftereffect throb of warmth. "Maybe you could assist him?"
He expected her to continue ignoring them both and continuing on to another table, but a strange emotion flickered over her face as she looked past Garak to where the doctor was furiously pretending he didn't care. Oh dear, it seemed as if he had miscalculated. The Bajoran came closer to them; a bit wider than was necessary and angling herself so that she presented her side to Garak, not wanting to look at him but not trusting him at her back either. A distinctive musky scent drifted from her and it was all Garak could do not to react. She was wearing derak, he didn't know the Bajoran name for it, but it was a particular perfume pleasing to Bajorans and humans too. For him it was as if he'd licked the underside of an old replicator, the scent crawled into his nose and died in his throat and the back of his tongue, an insidious form of torture.
Garak had no choice now but to focus on Bashir and found the human glaring at him as if he wouldn't mind stabbing him with something in the near future. It was intoxicating. Oh yes, come at me, doctor, he wanted to say. Lunge at me with all your strength, I will make you forget you even know how to breathe. Instead Garak sat back and smiled at him, gesturing at him to go ahead and make his order.
"Can I help you, Dr. Bashir?" said the waitress in a light, slightly breathy voice. The look of murderous intent vanished from Bashir's face in an instant. Pity.
"Yes…er…Betta, is it?" Bashir said.
"Betta Miyan," she said, awkwardly sticking out her hand as if she was trying the human gesture for the first time. The doctor reached out and curled his hand around hers.
"Bashir. Julian Bashir," he said. Oh, really. Garak rolled his eyes and felt a sudden sharp pain in his leg. It took him for a moment to comprehend it. Did the doctor just…kick him? Did he really just kick him? What a juvenile thing to do. Garak was overcome with the sudden urge to kick him right back but restrained himself. That had really hurt.
"Yes," the Bajoran said with a giggle. "I know that."
Ah alien courtship, how winsome, how sweet. Someone show him a cliff overlooking a beautiful view so he could throw himself off it. His shin still throbbed. Not that it was anything he couldn't deal with, still he edged his legs further out of Bashir's range.
"So do you always work the lunch shift?" Bashir asked. "I…um…often see you here…at that time…when I'm eating lunch." He seemed to flinch a little and Garak didn't blame him. He should really be executed for a line like that. There was no finesse at all. It was if the rise of hormones reduced his capacity for rational thought. It seemed to work because her smile, or what he could see of it, brightened.
"Yes. I work here part time. I'm only on the station to visit my aunt, but she's usually busy during the day so I decided to come down here and make some money." She shifted, lowering her shoulders a little as if showing off the smooth expanse of her neck. "And it's a good way to meet people." Her voice seemed to pitch just a bit lower. Garak gave her credit where credit was most obviously due. She was a pretty creature for a Bajoran and if her assets weren't particularly large they were certainly…buoyant. Of course her conversational skills could use a little work.
"So you're not here for very long?" said Bashir disappointment clouding his face. Completely defenseless, vulnerable and soft. He would never survive on Cardassia.
"No, only a few more weeks."
"That's a shame," Bashir said, and looked like he wanted to say more but quickly changed his mind.
"Yes, I really like it here," she said.
"Yes, it's nice isn't it? Sort of."
"Yes well the people more than the," she waved her hand, indicating maybe the station itself or the atmosphere or even the décor for all he knew.
"Yes, I know what you mean."
If either one of them said yes just one more time Garak would not be held accountable for his actions. Of course now they had lapsed to a near painful silence. It was a unique brand of torture, a sadistic brand of torture, like locking someone in the same room with two lovesick adolescents. The irony of it all was that, were not for his own actions, this situation would have never blossomed to begin with. Or at least, not with Garak being forced to be present. There was no easy way to extricate himself graciously. An abrupt departure would make him seem a fool somehow and, while he could say something cutting, he was having an inconvenient attack of morals did not want to ruin the good doctor's chance even as it was ruining his own. For now he was no more than a lump on a rock.
"Are you busy during dinner?" said Bashir suddenly, recovering himself, not particularly admirably but at least getting the conversation going again.
"No," She was leaning forward just a bit, anxious. "Are you?"
"I don't have to be, Betta," he said, and there it was, the liquid smoothness of his voice heightened by the sweet roll of his accent. He had aligned himself, finally, and was going in for the kill. This is where the torture ended.
"Oh, bravo, Doctor," said Garak, clapping loudly and they both jumped while several others on the promenade turned to stare. "I admit you had me worried for a while but you redeemed yourself quite well." They were both glaring at him now, but he knew, or hoped he knew that Bashir would get over it, even if it did frost him for a few days.
"That was brilliantly excruciating I must say," Garak continued as if he didn't notice. He gathered his plate and cup. "But if you'll excuse me, I do have a shop to run." He nodded at them both. "Doctor, Betta." Her gaze dripped poison and a couple of sturdy Bajoran males a table over tensed and watched him with narrowed eyes. Garak left, though at an easy pace, depositing his things in replicator and sighing a little as he saw just how little he'd eaten before it was swept away. Well there was always dinner, wasn't there? And a very large glass of kanar to accompany it.
"Waste of food, that," said Quark, popping up near his elbow. Garak wasn't particularly startled. He hadn't really noticed him but there was no where possible to go in Quark's without the Ferengi's presence looming over one's shoulder. "But what do I care," he said with a flippant shrug. "You paid for it." He tapped something on his padd. I see you've met Betta," he said glancing up.
Garak looked back at the table he had just vacated. "She's very …charming," Garak said. He could only see her back. That was probably for the best.
"Not much to look at but she practically works for free," Quark said, then hesitated and drummed his fingers against his padd before looking at Garak. "You don't think I could rent her out to him, do you?"
"I think you would regret even asking her," said Garak, and he was suddenly tired of talking about her, tired of being in the promenade with so many chattering people talking about meaningless things.
"You're probably right." He scratched idly at his bulbous forehead as he glanced at the padd. "Some people can be so picky." The Ferengi glanced at him again with a gleam in his eye. "So, Garak, have you ever-"
"No, I haven't ever," said Garak, not wanting to hear it, just wanting to get away. "And I don't ever intend to. Now I really must open my shop so if you will excuse me."
He walked away before Quark could press his case but that didn't stop the Ferengi from trying anyway.
"It's a sound investment!" he called. "Think about it and get back to me!"
Garak didn't acknowledge that he'd heard. Instead he walked the short distance to his shop, tapped in the security code and felt a sense of relief as the doors slid open revealing quiet dark. He slipped inside, letting his eyes adjust before moving to sit behind his desk and lean his head against the wall. People would come sooner or later and it would be awkward if they caught him sitting morosely in the darkness of his shop. He called for the lights and after a moment, stood and began to adjust the collar on one of his display pieces. It was frivolous piece, really, black with sharp angled designs of white, meant for Andalite fit and tastes though it had been a long time since he last saw one of those on the station. It was more experimenting, really. Something new to do.
The door slid open behind him but Garak let it be for a moment. He liked it for customers to ease their way in rather than welcoming them right away. He felt the customer's presence coming awfully close and started to turn when a rounded Federation padd tapped him lightly on the shoulder.
"You forgot this," said Bashir. Garak's intestines knotted together in sudden emotion. The human was smiling, soft wrinkles forming at the corners of his warm brown eyes, as if he was happy to be here, as if all that awkwardness on the promenade hadn't happened. The faint smell of the damned musk was an irritating reminder that it had happened.
"It seems I did," Garak said, stepping to the side both to take the padd more efficiently and to put some distance between them. There was only so much he could take in a day. He glanced at the padd for a moment, trying to remember what it was he'd forgotten, then remembered. It was the clumsy little novel Bashir wanted him to read.
"That was awfully quick," he said, moving to set the padd on the desk. "But I guess by your expression that you will be busy for dinner?"
"Oh yes," he said, catching his reflection in a mirror and absently running a hand through his hair. "Very busy."
"Well I, for one, am glad," Garak said, straightening another display piece but this time it was him being angled so Bashir wasn't at his back. He wanted to keep an eye on him, watch him, at least peripherally, for as long as he could. "You've seemed a bit tense lately."
"I wasn't aware you watched me so closely," said Bashir, teasing. Garak tilted his head down a bit, staring into Bashir's eyes from under his brow ridges, imagining himself like a snake coiling to strike.
"I make it a point to always watch closely, doctor," he said, pitching his voice just a little lower. Bashir stared at him. Keep him intrigued, that was the thing. Keep his curiosity high and he would follow you to the ends of the universe just to find out what you were being so secretive about.
"For example, you always manage to wrinkle your tunic just by sitting down," he stepped closer to Bashir and smoothed the tips of his fingers across the doctor's midsection before the man could check for himself. "I've never understood it. Federation uniforms are so straight they fairly stand up by themselves but you manage to rumple it."
"I didn't see any wrinkles," said Bashir with a skeptical frown.
"Yes, well I'm a tailor. It's my job to notice them." He stepped back once again before he was overcome with the temptation to move disastrously forward and regarded the doctor up and down. "Now that's much better."
"Well I've noticed things to and you haven't been eating well. You barely touched your lunch," Bashir said, looking for all the world like he wanted to close the distance himself. Which of course he didn't and even if he did it would likely only be for a medical reason. "You shouldn't skip meals, it isn't healthy."
"Your concern is touching," said Garak, putting a hand to his own chest. As if guided by some other force, his forefinger ended up resting just above the indention on his collarbone. Like clear water, the words of the old fairy tale came back to him. "Though you hold a knife to my heart, I do not flinch," spoke Rana and his lover's pale hands trembled. Ultimate truth. Ultimate trust. Startling that that should occur to him. Here. With Bashir, this doctor, this human…well really anyone. Truth and trust were the two things furthest from their relationship, if he could even go so far to call it such. That definitely meant he should be spending a great deal less time with the doctor before his sentimentality carried him away. How fortunate that Bashir would be otherwise occupied for at least a few weeks.
"I'm serious," the doctor said. And of course he was. And this time Garak was as well.
"As am I. I shall strive not to skip a single meal in the future. If that's all I really must get to mending and I am sure there are important things waiting for you in Sick Bay."
"You will read that novel?" he asked, his face falling open once again, those eyes wide and fixed on him. "I know it's not to your taste…"
"My dear doctor, I would read the Federation manual if you asked me to." Especially when asked with an expression like that. How could Garak say no? Bashir chuckled.
"I wouldn't be that cruel."
"Good to hear," Garak said with a little half bow. Leave, his face said, his posture said, I have work to do and you, though pleasant, are making yourself unwelcome. Leave, his mind said, this is getting too dangerous for me, for you, and I am tired of wanting. Stay, said the soft place above his breastbone. Let me show you. Let me not be afraid.
Bashir left. Garak waited until he was well and truly gone before sighing and rubbing a thumb briefly over the indention on his forehead to relieve the slight pain building up behind his eyes. He puttered around the shop, mending here, creating there, checking his terminal for any messages but of course there wasn't any and if there had been he probably wouldn't have liked it.
Finally he gave up and sat dumbly behind the desk once more. It had been a more stimulating lunch than usual and he didn't know if he could handle another. He would have to build up a resistance to it that was all. Idly he picked up the padd and started to read the first line.
It wasn't my fault.
He rolled his eyes. In the end, it was all the same. In the end, all of Bashir's heroes were exactly alike. But Garak couldn't stop reading, he would never be able to stop reading. Because as Bashir saw himself as the heroes of his tales, so Garak saw him. Every human in the story that smiled cockily while delivering a withering line, every human that risked it all to save a few, that bandaged gaping wounds, that risked himself to save others that he didn't know was, to Garak's imagination, tall and slender with black hair and eyes that bled a depth of emotion Garak had never conceived possible.
And he hoped. Oh yes. Hoped. Every day. Without wanting to. Detesting this weakness in himself even as he feared losing it. He hoped for home. He hoped for peace of mind. He hoped for a gentle warm hand caressing his ridges, an acceptance of who he was, someone to ease the coldness and isolation from within and without. What he would get was a lunch once or twice a week which was a little brighter. And one day even that would be a lot to hope for.
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Hi developers, I just wanted to report the progress in renaming LS to Apache Directory Studio. Christine updated all labels and links on the website (with some magic). And she replaced all visible labels and links in the Studio application. StefanZ updated the DOAP file and Studio is now listed on projects.apache.org. Ersin added some rewrite rules so that the Studio homepage is accessible with directory.apache.org/studio. I updated labels and links on elispeplugincentral.com and some wikipedia pages. Here are the next steps we have to perform: (1) Rename svn directory from ldapstudio to studio (2) Rename svn projects and update and build scripts I would suggest the following new project names (I added "ldap" prefix to the browser projects and modified schemas plugins to schemaeditor): studio-aciitemeditor studio-apacheds-configuration studio-apacheds-configuration-feature studio-apacheds-configuration-help studio-ldapbrowser-common studio-ldapbrowser-core studio-ldapbrowser-feature studio-ldapbrowser-help studio-ldapbrowser-ui studio-dsml-parser studio-jars studio-ldifeditor studio-proxy studio-rcp studio-rcp-feature studio-rcp-help studio-schemaeditor-feature studio-schemaeditor-help studio-schemaeditor-plugin studio-updatesite studio-valueeditors (3) Rename Java package names I would recomment to replact org.apache.directory.ldapstudio with org.apache.directory.studio for all plugins. As in (2) I would like to prefix the browser packages with "ldap" and to modify the schemas packages to schemaeditor: org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser. org.apache.directory.studio.schemaeditor. Impacts: * All connectons in the LDAP browser will be lost. We use the java.beans.XML(De|En)coder to save the ConnectionParameter objects in xml, it uses the FQCN to save/load the connections. Resolution: * We have to improve the ConnectionManager to replace all old package names with the new package names in the connections.xml (4) Rename plugin IDs We should rename the plugin IDs according to the package names. Impacts: * All dialog settings will be lost. Each plugin has its own directory in the workspace under .ldapstudio/.metadata/.plugins/ according to its plugin ID. When modifying the plugin ID the old settings are no more accessible. * All preferences will be lost. Each plugin has its own preferences file under .ldapstudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings according to its plugin ID. When modifying the plugin ID the old prefernces are no more accessible. * All connections will be lost because the connection.xml file is stored under the plugin specific directory. * Trouble with updates, see (7) Resolution: * Ignore first and second point, advise the user to redo his/her preferences. * We have to improve the ConnectionManager to copy the connections.xml from the old state location to the new one. (5) Modify install path and application name for the RCP applicaton Impacts: * Duplicate installation folders * Duplicate entries in windows start menu Resolution: * Advise the user to deinstall LDAP Studio before installing Apache Directory Studio. (6) Modify workspace folder in configuration/config.ini Currently we use @user.home/.ldapstudio as workspace folder. We should change this to @user.home/.apachedirectorystudio. Impacts: * The current settings and connections will be lost Resolution: * Advise the user to rename the workspace folder (7) Modify update site We have to modify the feature and plugin IDs in the update site. Impacts: * When updating via the update site or when just adding the new plugin, both plugins with the old ID and the new ID are enabled. All the functionality (Perspectives, Views, Wizards) will be there twice! However the new plugin isn't started automatically and the old one keeps active. Resolution: * We have to check if it is possible to activate the new plugin and disable or uninstall the old plugins. I will create some Jiras for these tasks. Kind Regards, Stefan Seelmann
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Some quick hits from a practice session that contained a few more players, a few Olympic medals of varying colors and quite a few more members of the media:
— The Ducks were a complete unit Tuesday as the seven medalists were back on the ice for the first time. Afterward, they showered and dressed in their respective country's uniforms, taking photos and answering questions with the medals sitting around their necks.
Ryan Getzlaf naturally was asked how winning gold for Canada on home soil compared to the Ducks' 2007 Stanley Cup triumph, of which he was also a big part of.
"Playing for your country is definitely one thing that's close to your heart," Getzlaf said. "But playing in the NHL, you're playing in the best league in the world and competing against the best in the world. Both of them have been highs in my career so far."
— In shipping out disappointing forward Evgeny Artyukhin, the Ducks not only wanted rookie Dan Sexton to be on this team but they clearly have plans to plug him into the lineup and take advantage of his offensive capabilities.
Sexton was on a line with Todd Marchant and Matt Beleskey during practice and Coach Randy Carlyle in effect stated the obvious when he said that the goal is to create a third scoring line. It's something that had been in Carlyle's plans at the start of the season, except the injured Joffrey Lupul was supposed to be the key to that.
"We feel that gives us another weapon or an opportunity for offense because Sexton's an offensive player," Carlyle said. "Beleskey has shown that he can go and skate and bang and score the odd goal when he's put in those situations. And we think Marchant's our best option at center because of his speed and versatility there."
— Ryan Getzlaf said his left ankle held up well during the Olympics. Getzlaf's ankle injury was one of the most talked about subjects in all of Canada right before the tournament as his participation was put in jeopardy.
"It was what it was," Getzlaf said. "I had a few tweaks here and there. For the most part, I was able to play and perform. It held up the way we thought it would. It was definitely something that we worked hard to make sure I could be part of that group."
Looking back, Getzlaf said there were times when he thought he wouldn't be able to play after hurting himself in a game against the Kings.
"Especially that week before," he said. "There were a couple of moments where I didn't think I was going to be there and be able to be part of that. It [stunk]. It was a tough time. Once I got out there and got through the initial couple of days there, I knew that it was going to be fine for the rest of the way."
— It wasn't the color he wanted but Ryan Whitney is one that is happy to get a silver medal even though the U.S. came up short against Canada. Whitney didn't make the original roster but was added as an injury replacement along with Carolina's Tim Gleason.
"We really came together as a team and had a good group of guys," Whitney said. "I wasn't even there to start but to be there and to experience that [was great]. It's tough losing that game but I thnk in a week here, it'll something special to be a silver medalists in the Olympics."
— Bobby Ryan was asked if he thinks the success of the Olympic men's hockey tournament and the impressive ratings of the gold-medal game will help boost the sport's popularity in the U.S.
"Let's hope so," he said. "I saw a lot on ESPN today. They were debating over whether Ryan Miller should play [tonight] or not. As long as their talking about hockey. Let's hope it's that."
Here were the lines at practice:
Bobby Ryan-Ryan Getzlaf-Corey Perry
Jason Blake, Saku Koivu-Teemu Selanne
Matt Beleskey-Todd Marchant-Dan Sexton
Ryan Carter-Kyle Chipchura-Troy Bodie
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Report of the Committee on American Archaeology appointed by the General Conference of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, 1894
Place Published: Lamoni, Iowa
Publisher: Herald Publishing House
Date Published: 1902
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Book Id: 3966
106, 46 pp. Black cloth with gilt title to front cover. General wear to surfaces, edges, head and foot of spine. Corners worn and slightly exposed. Minor loss near the foot of the spine. Front and rear inner hinges cracked. Owner's name to front pastedown. Internally very good. An RLDS Church publication relating archaeological discoveries to the Book of Mormon. Flake: 7026c
By This Publisher: Herald Publishing House