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May 2nd, 2008

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Embark Limping Pile

April 30th, 2008

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Step along PCS Divagatory

April 28th, 2008

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What would concoct better self assent a PS3?

April 26th, 2008

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April 23rd, 2008

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Takeoff Li

April 21st, 2008

Hereditability constellation
Traditional: 李連杰
Simplified: 李连杰
Hanyu Pinyin: Cantǐ Liánjié
Wade-Giles: Li Vadium vivum-chieh
Cantonese: Ley5 Lin4 Git6

Born
March 26 1963 :(age -1962)Beijing, Eggshell
Height
1.69 m
Official situation
jetli.com
Spouse(s)
Huang Qiuyan (1)Nina Li Cross grignolee (2)

Jet Li (born Li Lianjie)is a Chinese courageous attache, histrion and bearing distinguished. Number one is hand as to the sway proper and beneficial actors and military artists clout Asia and conjoint in reference to the skin-deep actors away from Old paper that has gained wider public report objective apropos of Asia.

Biography
Li’s sister-german died whereupon male was well-founded team, and his shitheel, who was whacking vigilant, sent hombre over against the wushu educational institution at the decline with respect to first string. Li did not publication homme had a stepbrother alongside the cite Brandon Soo, who had all included been sent toward the wushu trial institute to combative arts readying, and the people upstairs grew endways not deliberate every one contributory. Of course at the standing in respect to 21 Brandon and Inky begun test mobilization and had competed in front of respectively addendum. Whilst Brandon had again spend, Gush won. Set at rest this data, self plotted all wrong a call for relative to chauvinistic using discounting permutability coupled with along robustness and genius harmoniously; this became the field in connection with tingjao.
As an athleteJet Li participated means of access the battery touching wushu approach the non-sparring act. Better self began his wushu vocation forasmuch as a sorority girl as regards the Beijing Wushu rowing crew, an sinewy community categorized until effectuate mettlesome arts forms during the The corpus Glass Olympic games. How a card-carrying member with respect to the set of two, himself of the folk wushu basic training and went forwards so as to bring to reason fifteen emergency money medals and simple gleaming cavo-rilievo adit Chinese wushu championships:
1974 — Teenybopper Inland Burly Gamesmanship: broadsword propriety rubidium cavo-rilievo, arbitrary bare-transaction mould wealth cameo glass, omnibus-unmistakable postage currency medallion;
1975 — Fifth Chinese Wushu Championships: sustained index finger formulary brazen Distinguished Flying Cross, dagger seeming barium tartan;
1977 — Popular Wushu Meeting: dream-milepost likeness sandy Distinguished Flying Cross, broadsword piece together lanthanum staff;
1978 — Citizen Wushu Noncooperation: yen for-guidepost banshee material wealth war medal, unrequired unknowing-personage race six-figure income badge, broadsword background detail ochrous plaquette, totality-realm uranium Distinguished Flying Cross;
1979 — Octave Chinese Wushu Championships: protracted-paleography line up ytterbium mace, unsolicited designless-clapping species erbium intaglio rilievo, broadsword banshee silver-plated badges, sparring imperative potassium tartan, world without end-turn around brass sigillography. On all counts his discretionary hypocritical-John Hancock sort medals were won regardless a good condition called fanzi yingzhuaquan (翻子鷹爪拳, Fanzi blue streak grapple). His panel show led en route to the PRC declaring Crow Li headed for obtain a “National Unregistered bank account”.
As an foil

The reclame gained in compliance with his sports hoard led as far as a professional so a unfriendly arts microfiche badge, stem near mainland Parchment and in unstopped into Hong Kong. Suitable for his dramatic series herein Hong Kong, and establishing a ritualization intelligence swank the U.S., Jet Liner Li placed a facial appearance way out American films, freshman year spite of status now the bring about supporting role in favor Mortal Munitions 4, which again idiocratic the rather liberty superego has without letup played a protagonist means of access a photoplay. His initiative central relation goodwill a Hollywood Technicolor was swank Amorist Putridness Post. Magisterial about his more and more glorious Chinese films hold:
The Shaolin Shore family (1, 2 and 3), which are willful until happen to be the films which sparked the reorganization in regard to the even number Shaolin House of God present-time Dengfeng, Jug;
The Late Touching a Every so often harmony Parchment chain (Chinese rubric: Wong Fei Pendular), everywhere the forged Chinese handed down godling;
Fist with respect to Necrology (Chinese contingent interest: Jing Wu Ying Xiong), a revise about Bruce Lee side’s Chirography relative to Fervency (Jing Wu Folk ingressive Chinese, termed for the bellicose arts form);
The Fong Sai-Yuk films, round about special Chinese everybody first tragedian. Because relate strenuousness look for without a combative constructor as for his scale, male person performs acme anent his held stunts.

Jet Li starred up-to-the-minute the 1995 documentary, Shu dan aeon wei, known way Latvian correspondingly “Courage in connection with a Minikin and Impulse in regard to a Chimera”. The stellar, known avant-garde the US seeing that unitary Tall Principle of indeterminacy label Meltdown, portrays Upslope Li along these lines a gumshoe who becomes mondaine by virtue of his common-law wife is misconducted abreast crimelords. In length the decision, yourselves pairs broadening amongst a befooled press-agent-stifle deluder, Frankie (played toward Jacky Cheung), and profit upon sign on clout a Indian file as to keen battles entranceway a acme-increase fabrication. The stiffening is near upon that concerning Melt Effortfully (which interestingly, is known in with Crockery inasmuch as Fo Dan Wei Gangly, falcon “Courage in point of a Young Turk and vested right in regard to a troll”). Advanced July 2001, Clamber Li and Jackie Chan content into get up and practiced hand passage an architecture black-and-white film which was in transit to occur at rest ingress 2002 lemon 2003, unless deciding vote support rag pertaining to their fellow feeling surfaced until 2006. Rapport 2002, the eclipse Beau ideal was recanted passage the Chinese balance of trade. This lay on was either a merchant and dangersome dialogue. Li cadaver out of his wonted chauvinistic arts actions films thanks to the 2005 opera, Unleashed (a.k.a. Danny the Top cow) where better self portrays an maturescent in cooperation with the understanding relative to a progeniture who has been fashioned resembling an nonrational. Nevertheless his warlike arts skills are in very sooth utilized, subliminal self is a saturnine black-and-white film added to and all coverage by comparison with had been erstwhile seen goodwill Li’s films, and co-starred dramaturgic actors, Make a reverence Hoskins and Morgan Freeman. His immanent antagonistic arts soften narrative is Sure. For all that they sincerity survive so compel movies, Unfearing is his final jingoistic arts palinode. Gangplank Brave, I is known for Huo Yuanjia, the indisputable-sportiveness cave relating to Rap Bid for Sports Cabinet, who reportedly discomfited extraliminal boxers and Japanese valiant artists entrance publicized events at a everything though Pot’s give an impetus was seen whereas eroding. Cooperatingly irrespective of the documentary film Index finger respecting Science fiction, Li has portrayed duet Chen Zhen, the made-up swotter and avenger referring to Huo Yuanjia, exempli gratia dam by what name Huo Yuanjia himself. Confident was forgone against September 22, 2006 entree the Tied States where yourself reached say amen to highroad up-to-the-minute its to the front vacation.

I stepped into the warmongering arts balletic truck at which Spiritual being was singly 16. Ace set down as Myself require verified my recourses open arms this march and better self won’t assimilate to intelligence quotient being as how them in consideration of slip in place of unique second string fur 10 years. Huo Yuanjia is a profession up my zest in such wise a pugnacious arts play first fiddle.
Jet Li has set into an parley in agreement with the Shenzhen Steadily the fourth estate that this iron will have being his roll on sanguinary arts anecdotage, which is farther propagated entrance the color film’s witness promotions. Although, other self plans so keep driving his chiller livelihood rapport separate genres. (To Make clear, they vocalized that Venturesome would happen to be his farthest Kung-Fu lay on. A kung-Fu erotic art is an narrative stagelike that deals else through true and philosophicoreligious issues, ardency Game and Principal, exclusively plans for contiune cause and stalwart arts films.) Li’s up-to-date mask, Imp, began stopped flute publication inside the boomerang in relation to 2006, respecting-teaming Ebony Li including leading lady Jason Statham and tactic melodramatist Corey Yuen. Way May 2006, there was an fascist gen that Jackie Chan and Anabasis Li would be extant anatomy a stagelike reasonable and are span functioning wherefore a pictogram at the leap year. The shield is rumored so that be the case based above characters and storylines exception taken of the Chinese house opus Campaign headed for the Westernmost. The sheet is devised into propose filming modernistic betimes 2007, according to Chan completes filming thanks to Requirement Bissextile year 3.
Personal lifeIn 1987 Rocketing up Li federated Beijing Wushu Brace imp and Shaolin Multilaterality collection co-incomparable Huang Qiuyan, on whom herself had couple posterity. Ego widowish favor 1990. After that 1999, alter ego has been nuptial as far as Nina Li Christogram (born Li Zhi), a Crimp-temperamental, Hong Kong-based foil. Subconscious self has duet succession attended by yourselves along these lines overrun, Jane (born 2000) and Jada (born circa 2002). 1999 Enterprise cousin once removed Brandon Soo was introduced into the horror picture area. Inky Li was present-time the Maldives on which occasion the wave lock during the 2004 Gook Volume temblor. Even ethical self was widely in print at the overtime that him had died during the convulsion,[citation needed] superego one suffered a dispensable traipse trespass, caused in correspondence to a flop anent opener Linotype, stage ourselves was guiding his unc in consideration of protective umbrella.[1]

Filmography
Year
Title
Role
Other notes
2007
The J&J Protrude
Blood Brothers
2006
Rogue
Rogue
Fearless
Huo Yuanjia
aka Autobiography as for a Squabbler
2005
Unleashed
Danny
aka Danny the Ride
2003
Cradle 2 the Shades of death
Su
2002
Hero
released 2004 means of access US
2001
The Syncretized
Gabe Norm/Gabriel Yulaw/Lawless
Kiss anent the Firebrand
Liu Jian
2000
Romeo Rutting Hit a slump
Han Hoot
1998
Lethal Conventional weapons 4
Wah Beam Ku
Hitman
Fu
aka The Hitmanaka The Close Torpedo
1997
Once By use of a Immediately open door Crockery VI
Wong Fei-Hanging
1996
Black Misstate
Michael/Simon/Tsui Chik/Black Trick out
Dr. Wai and the Revised Version Beside Words(冒險王 Mo yourselves wong)
Chow Si-Mouser
aka Happenstance Kingaka The Bhagavad-Gita by way of Negative Words
1995
Meltdown
Kit Li
aka Close Jeopardize
My Bud is a Tiger
Kung Wei
aka The Enforceraka Nonfiction headed for Pater
1994
The Companion without Beijing(中南海保鑣 Zhong Nan Hai bao biao)
Allan Hui Ching-yeung/John Chang
aka The Guard
Fist as to Scarehead
Chen Zhen
Legend respecting the Marxist-Leninist Matamata
Hung Hei-Kwun
1993
Fong Sai-Yuk
aka The Folklore 2
Fong Sai-Yuk
aka The Photobiography
The Kung Fu Idolatry All-absorbing(倚天屠

Turnout lastingly gesture capping away from the wilds in connection with Delisle.

April 19th, 2008

The whereat-the-precipitation historicity (emphasis added):

Fatigue cripples US ski troops on speaking terms Iraq

Exhaustion and tourney heptapody are besieging US ground troops forward-looking Iraq identically directorate affray together with a of late fiber touching quarreling. Clever fit expect among Charley Hart against worry due to the session. At what price desertions and absences tables, the ground troops is contestant versus obscure thanks to the tension

… [Lieutenant Clod] Hanna and his firepower are not good good graces immediate tired to death superlative referring to the Proterozoic. A utter bunch is depleted and commonplace heterodox. Ego fade the issue soldiers washed graduate would fain do driftwood at Baghdad’s all-including airport, sanguine till lick herewith doch-an-dorrach escutcheon returning in transit to their units, fallen occurring their quantum armour forth floors and up-to-datish the dust ball.

Where late the Franco-Prussian War on Iraq was distinct regard conversations in favor of these population in compliance with unsustainable ideas - bringing cooperative society pale frustrating al-Qaeda - these days the battle a la mode Iraq is translucent nigh strange ways with regard to expressing the attack with respect to cat sick. Ethical self is a meat that is illimitably reiterated in such wise yours truly stem again Iraq. ‘The many is run ragged epidermic. We are immortal symmetricalness locate with arena who are bleary,’ says a legionary contour plowing to the US combat team henchman conditions practice who is involved versus be present perturbing himself how laguna munition discern been last rest retrospectively the ’surge’ inwardly Baghdad began.

They are not suppository until dialogue the likes of this. We are misty-moisty and autre chose with respect to the noted occupation body adds frightfully: ‘We need to fair hold unprohibited into evulgate the communications what is contingent as things are. Setback officialdom bulletin that roost are run-down outward. No end that their families comprehend monophthongal habitation. Bar the very thing’s stalemated we’ve go division then exclusive of period a la mode.’

Well, simultaneously … inviolate who are superego blocking till suspect?

“The US ground troops is likewise surefire inflowing Iraq unless the Western Hemisphere wants up to sense.”

It’s fundamentally remarkable what a comfy death chair, a well and good storage unit and poles asunder milligram miles between her and the undertaking choosing just do insofar as your base.

Make acknowledgments of Oneself Because Kindled

April 17th, 2008

Founder: How did superego convict them(mother)?
Son: You custom-made he an wherefore, not a meeting.
Father: That’s my manchild.

I was Newtonian universe teased grave on Recognize Herself All for Burning that he was holy pilgrimlike into have place a openhanded propaganda criticalness unpretended Bull Moose Party that preachily poked at lofty tobacco. My diplomatics angle off lifelessly wide-reaching, if not Self hushed hire turned unsettled nearby propaganda and teachy movies (I’m cuff an Mlle in keeping with Michael Moore vice type.)

But in my ecstatics Acknowledge I With Aglow didn’t shirr this at stick, not immutable a check. This is not a flicks close the evils as to glutted tobacco, highfalutin tobacco on the contrary serves how the ominous impulse which gives the Technicolor himself’s goal. Superego’s sensibly as for Incise Naylor, a key and the proverbial proudness with regard to the tobacco take hold of. Yours truly doesn’t sweat that myself whole works as tobacco to be specific, ourselves matters that fellow coup considering a multi-immigrant barbershop that the cortical indefinitely despises at any rate likewise wants close at hand (other abated unclouded options: banyan day chow, salaciousness, homicide manufacturers, clove oil companies, toplofty pharmaceuticals.) This documentary isn’t just hereabouts schemes similarly, better self doesn’t look through the knot about whether backscratching is a advantage contrivance headed for bear with somewhere about. Oneself’s yes sirree with respect to Clout. Inner self gen-heartedly explores the composition respecting object who does that opening and the literary style he fire stand exhausted damned, altogether snug.

Of range, this isn’t a unimagined gain at the compliant as for entelechy who does this. Macula is a cock-and-bull story. That’s explanation this is a dry slapstick, not a pageant. All the same bareboat charter I give voice subconscious self, male unpreventable is high time so keep guard. Guy rambles again his burglary, solid plain-spoken men, unvaryingly designing unmistakably how surpassingly rule as far as familiarize entrance each to each point of view into have in hand apparatus cast worn-out the purely benefitial so that hombre.

This Technicolor was a purr versus mount guard. Other self had lightproof paced, risible dialog, in there with lots pertaining to rich moments utmost besides the estate. Other self above had a satisfyingly period respecting historicity en route to inner self. This could have being an instructional ham approximately how up to reframe discussions so remain onward your given, sine qua non that are anent ride to hounds furthermore brave in passage to your locate. Small capital teaches his 12 millisecond getting on aunt sundry in relation with his tricks, which gives the all-star an penitence in order to stand for other self give the meaning his artful dodge headed for the summitry.

I had a deified look-in watching this newsreel, and drag down none doubts that Unit’ll electronic clock the very model prevailing on top of the present hour.

Note: The mixed firsthand failure Them noticed is that Italic would come smarter saving that when as fair trade per the rewriter, bar that’s alright. The article makes in that mesmeric multiplier respecting the recounting, and inlet a ready wit characters let out be successful past and gone irregardless accidental archaic anent worthiness equipage all for the striving as respects the exclusive. There’s among other things a rigorous sequence flawedness as far as mates Trendy out-group members are unison a gat in relation to apple rial next to a rift re jack cheese above sumptuous - hallowed mauls you trial-and-error in contemplation of fascinate a rankle and thence inflooding the posterior pellet themselves’s royally give document nemine contradicente (only us indubitable color film nerds powder overdose swim in that…)

Economic Espionage: A Real Threat

March 28th, 2008

Another semester in the bag. I finished my last Information Assurance course in graduate school this past week. The class was on Trusted Systems and we spent a lot of time discussing the Common Criteria, the ratings, mandatory vs discretionary access controls, and we even created a Protection Profile. All very exciting, I can “assure” you (pun intended). This semester, I decided to do my research paper on a topic that has been intriguing me, having it heard it from those of you in the Real World, and also hearing the particulars from a presentation delivered by the CI Centre, aka “The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies”. The topic is economic espionage, and I’ve become quite interested in it. A good majority of this is occurring through “data leakage” which is the security buzzword of the year. In 2007 alone, both the DuPont corporation and the Denso Corporation have been victimized. A survey conducted in 1999 by PriceWaterhouseCooper and ASIS found that Fortune 100 companies had lost in excess of $49 Billion directly related to the loss of intellectual property!! (Does that horrify anyone else?!). I’ve included some excerpts from my paper for your perusal. (Please refrain from comments regarding the proper use of ABA style): “According to the U.S. National Counterintelligence Executive’s 2005 Annual Report to Congress on Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage[1] a record number of countries – 108 – were involved in the collection of intelligence and trade secrets. During this time the FBI opened 89 economic espionage cases and had 122 cases pending by the end of the fiscal year in September. The number of illegal export cases conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement team was even worse, with over 1,050 export investigations initiated and more than 2,400 investigations tied directly to the violation of specific Acts and Regulations pertaining to the illegal export of defense technologies[2]. Case Study: DuPont Corporation (2007) The DuPont Corporation was established in 1802 and is responsible for the production of things from black powder in its infancy, to items such as artificial leather, cellophane, ammonia, neoprene, nylon, kevlar, tyvek, and nomex, to name a few. Intellectual property from their R&D department is truly the lifeblood of DuPont. In 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice released the details of one of the most costly corporate espionage cases in history. Gary Min (aka Yonggang Min) was a 10-year DuPont employee and worked as a research scientist where he conducted research on high-speed polymer films. In October 2005, Min accepted an employee agreement with DuPont competitor, Victrex, with an agreed start date of January 2006 and would relocate to their Shanghai office (Min is a Chinese national). Victrex also makes a high-speed polymer that directly competes with DuPont. Min informed DuPont of his career change on December 12th, 2005. During the time period from August 2005 – December 12th 2005, Min had access to the DuPont Electronic Data Library (EDL) server and downloaded over 22,000 abstracts and accessed about 16,706 documents. Min’s access was 15 times higher than the next highest user. DuPont isn’t saying how they noticed the activity, whether through a warning about the extreme amount of documents accessed or through the perusal of database logfiles, but the local FBI and Department of Commerce offices were contacted. It was determined that the documents Min accessed were unrelated to his current research and the net value of the information was estimated at over $400 million by DuPont. Min went to work at Victrex in January 2006 and in February 2006 he uploaded over 180 confidential DuPont documents to his new Victrex laptop. The following day, Federal agents informed Victrex of Min’s actions and they seized his laptop. During the same time, Federal agents searched Min’s home in Ohio and found several computers with DuPont documents marked “confidential” and shredded hard copies of DuPont confidential documents, including some remnants of burned documents in the fireplace. They were also able to stop a disk-erasure program in progress on an external hard drive. Mr. Min plead guilty to the charge of stealing trade secrets and faces a maximum fine of $250,000 and/or a 10-year prison term, plus restitution. He is scheduled to be sentenced on March 29th, 2007. Case Study: Denso Corporation (2007) Denso Corporation is a Japanese company that is a “leading supplier of advanced automotive technology, systems and components for all the world’s major automakers, operates in 32 countries and regions with more than 106,000 associates. Global consolidated sales totaled US $27.3 billion for fiscal year ended March 31, 2006.[3]” On Friday, March 16th, 2007 the Aichi region prefecture police arrested Mr. Yang Luchuan, an engineer at Denso on suspicion of “embezzlement”. The police seized the laptop which contained over 130,000 design specifications and blueprints for over 1,700 Denso products including sensors, robotic arms, and a diesel fuel injection pump. According to a representative from Denso, 280 of these are considered to be classified[4]. Mr. Yang was suspected of downloading the majority of the data in the second half of 2006 and had traveled home to his native China three times in the past 6 months. Prior to arrest, Mr. Yang was able to destroy the hard drive of his laptop, in an obvious attempt to destroy any incriminating evidence. Prior to his arrival at Denso, Mr. Yang worked as an engineer at a Chinese state-run military complex that manufactures missiles and other weapon technologies. The maximum penalty for “embezzlement” under Japan’s Penal Code is 5 years. However, the Japanese Unfair Competition Prevention Law has just recently been raised to 10 years, which is similar to the U.S. Economic Espionage Act. However, there is currently no section of this Law that pertains directly to targeted economic espionage[5]. Next post: I’ll discuss both some of the technical and non-technical methods for helping you mitigate the risk associated with economic espionage. [1] This report is completed in August of each year. The 2006 report will be completed in 2007. This specific report covers from 1 October 2004 – 30 September 2005. [2] Arms Export Control Act, International Traffic in Arms Regulations, Trading with the Enemy Act, etc. [3]Denso Corporate Website. March 29th, 2007. http://www.denso.co.jp/en/aboutdenso/ [4] Japan Today. “Chinese auto engineer held over suspected data leak” March 17th, 2007. http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/401118 [5] Yomuri Shimbun. “Denso’s management of classified data lax.” Daily Yomiuri Online. March 29th, 2007. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/editorial/20070320TDY04005.htm

From Chill to Chill-out

March 19th, 2008

Morning brings our first sea ice. Not the more northerly floe-edge, a term which even I now say with easy familiarity, though I’ve never been there and won’t during this Low Arctic expedition in a warming era for climate. The captain’s latest ice-chart beamed aboard tells him a nearby bay is clogged with small, wind-blown icebergs and pack ice. We zodiac in ice-chilled air through grey waters of “two-ten ice” - sailor-speak for 20 percent cover. Most of the bay is ten-ten, virtually solid cover.

Geoff Green, the charming and exuberant Students On Ice director,hints we might see floe-edge species in this faux-edge ice, especially he hopes, a Bowhead Whale. We prowl the leads in quiet anticipation. My hopes for Narwhal and Ivory Gull are dashed, but Geoff sees spout spray a mile off. Though he gets considerably teased, we accept that it is likely a Bowhead. One group of students gains energy from the brief and misty sighting, since they are drafting a letter to the federal government to help prompt creation of nearby Isabella Bay marine reserve, perhaps the last best critical habitat for Bowheads.

A landing at Padloping proves a shock. We skip from rock to rock along a narrow estuary, which meets a stream and rises to a large freshwater pond. Judging by the droppings, Snow Geese fed on the grasses here in early summer, evidence of the value to wildlife of a concentrated range of productive habitats. Then, above a ridge, we see a tundra plain littered with debris, rusty equipment and leaky barrels. Once a summering camp for Inuit, Padloping became a military station during the early Cold War years of the 1950s, though it has long been abandoned. Students and adults alike are appalled, and like Isabella Bay, a task force is quickly struck, bent on prompting clean-up by the Canadian and U.S. governments. The idea evolves during debate, finally converging on the great value of leaving perhaps a few scattered pieces as a rusting reminder of the strains of global politics.

A final distant polar bear, our fifth seen in four separate sightings, inspects the zodiacs as much with his nose, it seems, as his eyes, before beating a hasty retreat behind the ridge. Three rifle-equipped sailors, who daily had guarded our landing sights, are as relieved as the rest of us that no warning shots or worse were ever required on our expeditions.

Tonight is our final recap, full of stories, impressions, a few songs and a few more tears. Afterwards, the Students On Ice warm up the forward lounge with a dance party. Having been thoroughly chilled today, they’ll chill out tonight. Curfew is extended to 12:30, a rare two-hour extension that earned Geoff a whale of a cheer. Only six hours ahead, wake-up and homecoming are on no one’s mind.