"He poked me in the back and said, 'Yeah, if you miss, you're going back to Bridgeport, '" Nielsen said.

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When you're trying to claw back in and you miss half your free throws or more, it's very difficult.

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Markets snap back viciously and if you miss the bottom you have lost much of the whole point of getting out in the first place.

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However, many neon monuments are tucked out of the way while others have a fascinating back story you would be sorry to miss.

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So you have to schlep the thing back to the check-in counter and pray that you don't miss your flight.

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"You can't miss that many opportunities at this level as games will slip away, " Back told BBC Radio Leeds.

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Instead, we drove back to Dadaab - a shabby, blink-and-you'd-miss-it village now surrounded by the vast, resolutely temporary camps that make up the world's largest refugee settlement.

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