of state for this adventure of a lifetime and also participated in the Lynn Berggren Memorial Hunt hosted by volunteers early Thursday morning. Fundraisers, award banquets, and social events were held at the Cobblestone Hotel and One Box Convention Center in Broken Bow. Area community members also hosted each new team, throwing cocktail parties to welcome the sportsmen to Custer County. Special guests Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts, Congressman Adrian Smith, Senator Ben Sasse, and Congressman Jeff Fortenberry were in attendance for the Friday evening banquet and festivities. Sporting clays and trap shooting competitions were also on the schedule at the One Box Gun Club located southwest of Broken Bow. Local volunteers, community supporters, and generous sponsors including Thomas Livestock Company, Sempra Energy, Heartland Builders Co./ Summit Livestock Facilities, Joe Fehringer Rental Properties, and BD made this annual event a success. The Nebraska One Box Pheasant Hunt is proud to announce the 2018 HUNT RESULTS of the nation's top pheasant hunt set in the beauty of the Nebraska Sandhills. The CAPITAL CITY WRIGHT HUNTERS New Team takes first place, following the 58th Annual One Box Pheasant Hunt in Broken Bow, Nebraska. This team was welcomed to Custer County and graciously hosted by BD - Don & Michelle Paris, Matt & Shawnda Eggleston, Luis & Dianna Lima, Will & Mindie Druery, Jerry & Jill Smith, Larry & Gail Ferguson, and Jason & Jennifer Jackson. With one box of shells, this five-member team scored 70 POINTS shooting 14 pheasants to take first place. Local guides Bruce Bartak and Mark Schmidt, dog handler Gene Giles, and scorekeeper Brent Kirkpatrick share the glory. The DIRTY BIRDIES New Team came in second with 50 POINTS, and the THREE BOX New Team came in third with 45 POINTS. The competing past shooters team (#4) captained by John Jordan, took first place. Team members included Kevin Berggren, Les LaFon , and Karl Arnold. Jacob Holcomb and Conrad Hueftle helped guide this successful team. Since 1961, the Nebraska One Box Pheasant Hunt has been dedicated to the fellowship among sportsmen and supporting the creation of wildlife habitat. The One Box corporation is composed of local residents who aim to promote the fine hunting and recreational opportunities so abundant in Central Nebraska. The group is instrumental in funding local scholarships, awarding approximately $12,500 annually to local scholars since 1981. Funds generated by this non-profit organization also maintains the One Box Gun Club and supports a successful youth shooting program with members competing in elite national competitions.


This Handbook contains everything you need to know about this Cultural Immersion Secret Compass expedition to Mongolia.
Read on to discover our ethos and team-centred approach and for the nitty gritty like flight and visa advice, insurance requirements and kit recommendations. Use the buttons below to ask questions or to apply for this team or, once approved, to secure your spot on this expedition team with a Booking Form and a £400 deposit.
Arrive: in Ulaanbaatar by 1600 on 1 September 2019.
Depart: from Ulaanbaater any time on 17 September 2019 onwards.
Balance due: 90 days before departure on 1 June 2019.
Taking a twist on the classic Mongolian road trip, this expedition will be completed with a different sort of horsepower. Using nimble steeds to head away from roads, you'll enter the foothills of the Altai mountains deep in the heart of Altai Tavan Bogd National Park in Far-Western Mongolia. Experiencing a traditional way of life on this horse-back, wilderness journey through challenging terrain, long days in the saddle will be rewarded with rustic wild camps under the stars or stays at nomad encampments. In addition to your Secret Compass leader and local support team, you will also be joined during the ride by Kazakh Eagle Hunters who are keeping centuries of tradition alive, throughout the expedition they will share their skills, stories and history with the team and teach some of the traditional Kazakh horse games which will be on display during the festival. The expedition culminates at the Sagsai Eagle Festival to celebrate over 6000 years of Kazakh culture and eagle hunting skills.
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You need to be at the team hotel in Ulaanbaatar for the expedition briefing at 1600 on the 1 September 2019 and the expedition officially ends after breakfast on the 16 September 2019 with team members free to depart anytime that day.
You must bring a copy of your insurance policy, showing that you are covered for horse riding, with you on this expedition.
Visas are your responsibility. Many nationalities require a visa in advance of travel to Mongolia, please check with your nearest Embassy or Consulate for the latest information as the details provided here are a guide only. British nationals can apply for a tourist visa at the Embassy in London in person, through a nominated party or via an approved visa assistance company, postal applications are not accepted. Applications are accepted between 1000 and 1200 on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday with collection available the same day (expedited service) or in 2-3 working days. To apply for Mongolian visa you will require your passport (see below), a completed visa application form, one passport-style photo, proof of your travel arrangements eg. flight confirmation and trip itinerary, proof of payment of visa fee.
All expedition members should have valid passports with six months remaining from the planed date of departure from Mongolia. Please send a clear, colour copy of your passport to Secret Compass ahead of the expedition and carry photocopies with you on the expedition in a safe place.
The expedition officially begins at the team hotel in Ulaanbaatar with an expedition briefing and dinner at 1600 today. The hotel has luggage storage facilities if you are arriving in ahead of time and would like to explore the city and extra nights can be booked direct if required. Transfers to/from the airport/team hotel are not included, but local taxis are easily available.
Departing Ulaanbaatar this morning, the team will fly west to Olgii where you will be met by your local guide and support team for the road transfer into the National Park. On arrival, the team will be introduced to the most important members of their support crew – the Mongolian horses! There will be time allocated to pairing up riders and mounts ahead of the next days on expedition.
Heading out into the National Park, the team will explore the border region in the shadow of Mongolia's highest peaks on horseback. The diverse terrain ensures that every day will provide a new moment of wonder or a new story to share around the fire at your evening's wild camp as you recover from the day's horse-back exertions. In the company of your Secret Compass leader, your local team will introduce you to their homeland and share the folklore and traditional skills which have been passed down for generations and kept alive by the nomadic groups you'll meet en route. Several of the regions Eagle Hunters have been invited to ride with the team and teach their traditional games to the group ahead of the Eagle Festival.
In the company of your guides, join the festivities at one of Mongolia's famous Eagle Festivals. Unlike the larger Olgii festival later in the year, Sagsai is much smaller, offering more opportunities to get up close to the action over the two days of celebrations. As events wind down, bid farewell to the competitors and your guides and drive the short distance to Olgii and a comfortable guesthouse.
Fly back to Ulaanbaatar this morning and check-in to the team hotel. Spend the afternoon relaxing, sightseeing or souvenir hunting before a celebratory final meal.
Officially the expedition ends this morning after breakfast however you are free to depart anytime today with some flights leaving in the early hours, when arranging onwards travel please bear in mind that domestic flights in Mongolia are often delayed. The hotel can assist you with airport transfers or you can extend your stay to discover more in the city and beyond.
Please remember that this itinerary acts as a framework plan. It provides guidance as to our intentions but may not be followed religiously. This is an adventure and by definition the outcome is uncertain. The leadership team will adapt, flex and change the plan depending on the numerous frictions you may encounter along the way. Please see our full Terms and Conditions for more details.
All our expeditions are achievable by people with an active and healthy lifestyle. However, this is a physically demanding expedition, especially if you are unaccustomed to long days in the saddle – at times you will be sore, tired, hungry and possibly wet! You must be prepared physically and mentally for the expedition and for living in basic conditions for the duration. Please ensure that you train for the expedition and arrive fit and ready to go (see our Expedition Training Guide). You will be required to be fit enough for the following.
Secret Compass expeditions are achievable by anyone with a healthy lifestyle and a good level of general fitness. Team members should be willing to be part of a team working together throughout this expedition and bring a positive mindset and an adventurous, robust spirit. At a basic level, you should be comfortable jogging for at least 45 minutes and ideally riding confidently at canter in an outside environment – complete beginners with a very positive attitude are welcome to apply for this expedition but we strongly suggest booking a lesson or two to determine that you'll enjoy the expedition experience! We have access to a range of horses to suit different experience and confidence levels so please detail these on your application form. The biggest challenge on this expedition will be multiple days spent in the saddle if you're not used to regular riding, to offset the impact of this we suggest getting as much camping experience as possible before the expedition so you are comfortable with your nightly routine and able to get a good night's sleep.
Once you have booked, please send us an email describing your riding experience including comfort level at a walk, trot, canter, or gallop; mounting and dismounting, handling horses on the ground, and anything else that may help us match you to your ideal horse. Note if you just enter 'experienced' you will be given a beginner's horse!
The official currency is the Mongolian Tögrög, you can change currency to MNT in Ulaanbaatar or at the airport. Credit cards are widely accepted in large shops or hotels in the capital but rural areas are still cash-based. Travelers checks are not accepted in Mongolia.
Apart from alcohol and costs of a personal nature (eg. alcoholic drinks, souvenirs, laundry, excess baggage on flights, discretionary but appreciated tips) the expedition is all-inclusive from dinner on day 1 through to breakfast on day 17 so you won't need to carry much money. Secret Compass always suggest carrying an emergency fund of $100-$200 in cash in addition to your planned spending.
The following is Secret Compass's recommended kit list for the 2019 expedition to Mongolia. Please read carefully and contact Secret Compass with any questions. Secret Compass will provide all of the group equipment and tents.
This expedition includes a domestic flight in Mongolia which has a very limited luggage allowance of 15kg including carry-on, whilst extra baggage may be purchased at the airport this is not guaranteed so we recommend packing warmly but lightly – your pack horses will thank you!
DAYPACK: A small pack (around 25 ltr) for use at the festival and as hand luggage. Secret Compass will supply saddle bags for the riding phase.
SLEEPING MAT: Thermarest or equivalent. Bring repair kit.
RIDING HELMET – COMPULSORY: We are not able to provide riding helmets for this expedition, you will be required to bring your own with you and failure to do so may result in you being unable to join the expedition team. Your helmet must conform to at least one of the international standards of safety.
RIDING GLOVES (Optional): Full finger gloves, usually with grippy palms and fingers, especially advised if you have soft hands or suffer from cold extremities.
RIDING CHAPS: Secret Compass provide half-chaps but if you prefer to use your own please bring them with you.
2 X RIDING TROUSERS: Jodhpurs are ideal as they have a patch covering the inner seam to avoid friction with the saddle. Shorts, baggy trousers and zip off trousers will not be comfortable.
1 x RIDING/WALKING BOOTS: Whilst riding boots are great when on horseback they offer limited versatility if you decide to stretch your legs when grip may be vital, so it may be worth considering a lightweight walking boot instead or in addition. Either way you must have one pair of boots which have ankle support and minimal grip with a defined heel for whilst riding.
2 x LONG SLEEVE TOPS: Thin trekking shirts or equivalent that dry quickly. Long sleeves to provide insect and sun protection.
2 X THERMAL BASE LAYER: Long sleeved thermal top. Helly Hansen or equivalent, particularly useful for the evenings or for cooler nights in the mountains. If you feel the cold consider thermal leggings in addition.
1 X LONG TREKKING TROUSERS: Thin trekking trousers or shorts/zip off trousers that dry quickly and are comfortable for use around camp in the evenings and whilst at the festival.
1 x MID LAYER: Fleece or equivalent.
1 x INSULATED JACKET: Down or synthetic that packs down small, bring a dry bag for down jackets – evenings will be cool with temperatures potentially down to 0C.
1 x WATERPROOF JACKET AND TROUSERS: Gore-tex or equivalent, lightweight and packable. Do not bring a poncho as these scare the horses!
4 x HIKING SOCKS: To fit with your chosen boots.
SANDLES: Around camp, river crossings and in the evenings. Flip flops are not advised and trekking sandals with toe protection can be useful.
GLOVES: Bring a warm pair of gloves for the evenings.
4 x UNDERWEAR: Sport or low-friction to reduce chafing.
NIGHTWEAR: For in shared accommodation or use your thermal base layers.
WATER BOTTLE OR BLADDER: Water bottles may be easier to use with saddlebags. You need to carry at least 1 litre of water with you.
WASHBAG: Essentials (toothbrush, toothpaste, razor, deodorant etc.) packed in a small bag.
SOAP (Optional): Anti-bacterial and biodegradable. Consider Lifeventure All-Purpose Soap concentrate which is also PH balanced.
WET WIPES/BABY WIPES (Optional): Please bring biodegradeable options and plastic bags etc to carry them out of wilderness areas.
SANITARY PRODUCTS (Optional): Bring nappy sacks and zip-lock bags as you will not be able to dispose of these on the riding trip.
SUDOCREM: Great product for preventing/treating saddles sores/chafing.
REHYDRATION PACKS: Dioralyte sachets only make up small volumes of rehydration concentrate. Consider (non-caffeinated) Nuun or Zero tablets instead.
HEAD TORCH AND SPARE BATTERIES: Petzl Tikka head torch or equivalent. Please bring plenty of spare batteries as there are no charging facilities.
GAFFA TAPE (Optional): For emergency repairs to your kit, you can take some off the roll and wrap it around something else in your kit, another generally useful item to have.
1 x KARABINER: For securing your rucksack to vehicles, clipping your boots together, generally useful!
In some areas our teams explore, we rely on local food sources. This can often be outstanding (but can also be very average) and we always make the best out of the resources available. In other cases, we will supply filling and high-calorie dehydrated expedition foods (ration packs).
There really is no typical expedition member, though everyone needs to be fit, healthy and ready to take on the expedition's aim by the time of departure. Participants range from 21 to 65+ in age and come from all over the world. Backgrounds include contract workers and engineers, IT specialists and students, teachers and literature lovers, journalists and keen photographers and so many more. What bonds our pioneering teams is their shared spirit of adventure and their sense of humour and positive outlook. A good teammate looks on the bright side when the 4×4 breaks down, the rain comes early and when a meal is distinctly pedestrian. Our teammates look out for each other, encourage each other and help each other when needed. Our teams have done us proud in working together to achieve their common goal: the aim of the expedition. If this sounds like you, you've come to the right expedition company.
It is your responsibility to understand the risks associated with adventure travel in remote areas. You also must understand that medical evacuation will take an extended period of time (potentially up to 48 hours) and will require wilderness extraction techniques and long carries by stretcher. In-country search and rescue and emergency services are very basic or non-existent and the expedition will rely on internal resources for medical evacuation. By joining this expedition, you accept the risks associated with the venture. If you require any more information on specific risk management for this expedition, or would like to speak to us about our medical planning prior to the trip, please get in touch.
Mongolia sees relatively little tourism, so there's a unique, authentic opportunity to experience one of the last truly nomadic cultures. In order to avoid problems occurring in future with children begging for sweets or hawkers arriving at camp, your leaders will explain best practice. As we are travelling through the homeland of your local guides and wranglers (horse-breeders) there may be the opportunity to meet local people and be invited in to their homes. Don't worry, your leaders will be on hand to explain how to navigate the cultural minefield, such as always giving and receiving with the right hand whilst your left hand supports your right elbow…Luckily the culture is quite 'relaxed' and transgressions are more a source of amusement than offence. Mongolians are very proud of their culture and like to share it with outsiders, as evidenced by the popularity of the Kasakh Eagle Hunters Festivals which are promoting sustainable tourism as a way of keeping these traditions alive.
This expedition will explore the vast Altai Tavan Bogd National Park which encompasses a variety of terrain from forest trails to open steppe and high alpine passes. The route may require river crossings and although the average altitude is around 2500m there are opportunities for higher passes and look out points to be incorporated into the itinerary.
Weather in Mongolia is notoriously variable from blue skies and 20+C to near freezing temperatures and rain. September is the end of summer so temperatures are starting to cool down and much of the expedition will be among the mountains of the National Park so we recommend coming prepared with layering options so you'll be comfortable in all conditions from sunshine to hail!
Road: Vehicles will be used for group airport transfers and to reach the start of the riding expedition. For some sections of the trip, vehicle support will also be used to transfer equipment between camps – despite the remote areas the route travels through, Mongolian's are determined drivers! Please bear in mind that the condition of vehicles and roads in Mongolia will not be up to all international standards.
Domestic flight: This expedition includes a domestic flight between Ulaanbaatar and Olgii. There is a limit of 10kg for checked luggage, and 5kg for carry-on bags. Excess baggage can be purchased at the airport (at additional cost) although this is limited to 15kg and may not always be possible.
Horseback: The best way to experience Mongolian scenery and the traditional way of life is aboard one of the three million horses roaming the steppe. Your experienced leaders will match you to a suitable mount for your expedition into the National Park. Whilst part of the trip will be vehicle supported to transport tents, food etc, there will be some sections where the trip will rely on pack animals. Pack animals are very restricted on the amount of weight they can carry so please bear this in mind when packing.
Ulaanbaatar: Twin-share rooms in a comfortable hotel will be booked for the start and end of the expedition. The hotel can store a small amount of luggage if required (at your own risk) and extra nights outside of the Secret Compass itinerary can be booked directly.
Expedition: Tents will be provided on a twin-share basis to reduce the weight carried by pack animals.
Ger Camps: At several points during the expedition there may be the opportunity to stay in ger camps with local families, here accommodation will be on a group basis.
Olgii: Ahead of the return flight from Olgii to Ulaanbaatar the group will stay at a fixed (permanent) Ger camp on the edge of Olgii, with Gers shared on a dorm basis.
Reality of living rough for days: Occasionally people on our expeditions are not prepared for camping for multiple days. Living in these conditions can degrade your health if you do not look after yourself and increase fatigue if you are not used to living rough. You need to be highly organised so that your night and morning routine is done efficiently and quickly, even if you are stiff after a day in the saddle.
In Ulaanbaatar, the team will eat at the hotel or head into town for meals. Once on the expedition, food will be simple meals which the team will help to prepare. The local diet is very basic (boiled mutton and dairy products) however we will add variety with fresh ingredients and more western-style recipes. There is little opportunity to re-provision en route so please make Secret Compass aware of any dietary requirements when applying for this expedition.
You will have an experienced Secret Compass leader with you throughout this expedition who has extensive experience of leading groups in remote locations. They will be supported on the ground by a local guide/translator and a support crew of horse wranglers and drivers.
Unfortunately, routine communication between team members and family/friends is not possible – please reassure them that no news is good news!
If there is an emergency and someone needs to contact a team member, they can contact Secret Compass's Operations Room on +44207 096 8428 who will endeavour to pass a message on within 24hours.
Cell Phone. Your mobile roaming will work in Ulaanbaatar and possibly in Olgii however it is unlikely to have signal once on the expedition and this is a great opportunity to unplug and switch off.
Teammates with dietary requirements are welcome to apply for this expedition and should state their specific requirements when applying. The food situation is outlined in the Practicalities tab.
I don't have a lot of riding experience, is this expedition right for me?
We'd always suggest team members have a riding lesson or two before signing up for this expedition to ensure they enjoy the experience however you don't need to be a seasoned pro. There are a wide range of horses available and time is allocated at the start of the expedition to correctly matching riders and mounts to cater for all experience levels. The daily route planning will offer options for faster, longer or more challenging riding but ultimately the distances covered will be constrained by the slowest/least confident team member and everyone signing up needs to be aware that this is a team expedition and approach the trip accordingly.
Absolutely. There are different types of mount available for different skill levels or confidence levels and the expedition route offers a variety of terrain and opportunities for more experienced riders to cover larger distances or open up for a gallop whilst maintaining the team feel of the expedition. In the company of Kazakh Eagle Hunters, there'll be plenty to learn for even experienced riders!
What kind of riding set up should I expect?
We'll be riding like the locals on this expedition using comfortable 'pad' style saddles (not the ornate wooden ones you may have seen in photos from Mongolia!) – these are eminently suited to long days in the saddle and surprisingly forgiving! Standard bridles are used and the horses are trained for western-style neck reining. Don't worry if this all seems to be a foreign language, your expedition leader and local team will talk you through the basics and you're encouraged to pitch in with the wranglers to learn about tacking up your own mounts. Horses are the lifeblood of the region and families have bred them for generations specifically for the varied terrain that Mongolia offers – our wranglers are understandably proud of their herds and excited to show them off to visitors.
Will we meet Kazakh Eagle Hunters?
Not only is this expedition planned to culminate at the Sagsai Eagle Festival, but we have also invited several local Eagle Hunters to ride with our team into the Altai National Park. This gives our expedition a privileged insight into the history and lifestyle of this unique culture as well as providing opportunities to learn new skills and try your hand at traditional Kazakh riding games.
As The Plan outlines, there is a chain of transport to get teammates out to the start of the ride and back to Ulaanbaatar so start and end dates are not flexible. You're welcome to extend your trip ahead of, or after, the Secret Compass itinerary.
This will be very challenging with limited access to power once the trekking section begins. Please ensure that you are self-sufficient in terms of charging your appliances by bringing things like spare batteries, lightweight solar panels or power packs to avoid frustration. We suggest embracing the opportunity to unplug and disconnect during this expedition.
Do I need specialist riding clothing/equipment?
Boots: If you have them bring them but these are not necessary and actually a lightweight pair of walking boots may be more versatile. The stirrups on Mongolian saddles are wide enough to take most walking boots but they must have minimum tread and a defined heel.
Jodhpurs: Again, if you have them, great, bring them. If not then certain types of trousers will do instead – things to remember are that any seams will rub, and loose-fitting trousers aren't great either as there'll be movement and creases and therefore friction. Stick with tighter fitting trousers (on no account shorts!) and the fewer seams the better. You don't need padded trousers.
Helmet: We are not able to provide riding helmets for this expedition, you will be required to bring your own with you and failure to do so may result in you being unable to join the expedition team and will likely find that your travel insurance is invalid. Your helmet must conform to at least one of the international standards of safety.


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Evil descends in one night. Who will be crushed in its grip? Its November 9, 1938Kristal Nacht, the Night of Breaking Glass. As Hitlers minions blaze through Berlin, arresting Jews, burning homes, shops, and synagogues, Pastor Karl Ibsen races to aid the Kalners, a Jewish family in his congregation. But will he be too late? And what price will his wife, Helen, and children, Lori and Jamie, pay for his actions? As Berlin burns, Karls family waits in New Church for the Nazis to come. The Wallich family hides in a nearby apartment. Lucy Strasburg, girlfriend of a Nazi officer, watches with horror, realizing what the glory of the Reich really means . . . and wondering what, if anything, she can do. For all, there is only one hopethe Danzig Passage. A narrow corridor to hope and freedom. Special Feature: Study questions suitable for individual use or group discussion.


THE boyfriend of a 20-year-old woman killed when their jet skis crashed on holiday in Thailand has pleaded guilty to a charge of recklessly causing death, police say.
Australian couple Emily Jayne Collie, 20, and Tommy Keating, 22, smashed into each other a few metres from Kata Beach, in Phuket.
Thai police say an Australian man has pleaded guilty to a charge of recklessly causing death over a fatal jet-ski crash that claimed the life of his 20-year-old girlfriend off the resort island of Phuket.
"Thomas pleaded guilty," Superintendent Sanya Thongsawad told ABC.
But Emily's family released a statement saying they did not blame him for the tragic accident and wished to grieve together.
It said: "We do not place any blame on Tom Keating, who we care about very much and who we know loved Emily deeply.
"We are all heartbroken beyond words, and at this extremely sad time, we wish to be together with our family, with Tom, and with other loved ones to grieve and celebrate Emily's life."
The 22-year-old, from Melbourne, has penned a touching tribute to his girlfriend, saying he will "never be able to mend".
"I'm so broken and I know I'll never never be able to mend," Keating wrote on Facebook.
"I'll always be your boy and you'll always be my girl! We had so many plans for our future Emmy.
After the incident, he told medics they had collided after glaring sunlight on the idyllic tourist island had made it impossible for them to see each other.
Harrowing pictures showed lifeguards frantically performing CPR on Emily, from Kyabram in Victoria, after she was pulled out of the sea unconscious.
But she was sadly pronounced dead before arriving at hospital.
Tommy suffered only minor injuries.
He told medics that the couple had collided after glaring sunlight on the idyllic tourist island had made it impossible for them to see each other.
TALK ABOUT A LOCK IN!
According to Emily's Facebook page, she recently graduated from Charles Stuart University in Sydney. Tommy is as apprentice plumber from Melbourne.
The Royal Thai Navy sent staff to assist in the rescue. They said the young woman suffered severe injuries to her neck and shoulders.
Rescuers spent 15 minutes on the beach performing CPR in front of stunned tourists before Emily was taken to the island's Chalong Hospital.
A spokesman for Katon Fire And Rescue Department said a post mortem examination would now take place to establish the exact cause of death.
They said her family in Australia have been informed and that consular officials were in touch with them.


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Need for Speed: The Run (XBOX 360) Review
Brendan Frye | Nov 21, 2011
If you have ever wanted to jump behind the wheel of an expensive car, drive cross-country, and race against the best drivers in the world for a shot at millions, then on paper Need for Speed: The Run sounds like the perfect game for you. Regrettably, this is not the case. The game feels horribly inconsistent, and the overall racing experience suffers from it. There are some great set-piece moments, but these are too few and far between. Combine that with a lackluster story, bad driving control, and limited multiplayer, and the overall package feels rushed.
The storyline for the game has you taking the role of a driver by the name of Jack. He is on the run from the mob, and is given the opportunity to have this problem dealt with along with gaining a rather large sum of money if he wins a race (The Run). The race starts in San Francisco, and takes the player though Vegas, Chicago and lots of country roads and highways in-between as you beat 200 racers and make your way to New York. The game is not a long race but rather a series of events spaced over 10 stages. These events range from beating out opponents to making up time. Although these all work, there is little variety to the overall experience. There s some artificial tension created by story beats such as almost getting arrested or being shot at, but these add little to gameplay and feel tacked on as an afterthought.
The segments out of the car do not assist in creating a fun driving experience. These act as little more then cutscenes with button prompts, and add very little to the story, serving instead as a way to break up the action of the racing. The biggest problem here is if you buy a Need for Speed game, you are in the game for the racing and the fast cars. By taking you away from this with strange quick-time events, it takes the player away from what makes a racing game fun. However, these sequences help explain how Jack is getting new cars: after he runs away from the respective pursuers he comes across a series of cars and gets to pick up a new ride. But in practice, this could have all been done much more elegantly. Here, it just feels clunky.
The cars in the game are broken up into tiers (like many racing games) which keeps similar power and spec vehicles together. Although the game also goes so far as to tell the player what cars are easy to control and what cars are hard, in personal experience this makes little to no difference. All the cars in the game control rather badly, and the easy ones are just marginally easier. I found myself choosing the most powerful car every time, and manually compensating for the problems in handling. Dodging cars as you drive down the road felt awkward and often resulted in unnecessary crashes. Also, the corners felt sloppy even with the easy cars and this resulted in a need to be almost stopped before making any hair-pin turns. Some set-piece moments suffered from this bad handling, especially when you need to avoid obstacles, making some sequences almost unplayable. If not for luck, many of the stages would have to be retried countless times
The overall length of the game is another disappointing aspect. The game will take most players around 2-3 hours (took me around three on hard difficulty). This does not include load times, and these load-times can be very long, so overall time with the game in the console may be longer but it is still an afternoon of gaming rather than a lengthy experience. There are some stunning vistas and landscapes in the game that may require some visits to get the full extent, along with every unlockable tracks and bonuses. For the average gamer, after about a day or two of playing they will have experienced all there is, and will be ready for another, more polished racing experience.
The set-piece moments in the game are what really set it apart from other racing games. Utilizing the Frostbite 2 engine, the game creates some magnificent moments. The most notable is the race in the Rocky Mountains as dynamite explodes, setting off rockslides and avalanches. Snow and rocks come crashing down on the road as you and your opponent drive to win the race. Particle effects and some great moments of you just escaping as piles of snow barrel at you feel satisfying. It is sad that these moments were not more numerous, as it would have made the overall experience much more exciting and less a test of patience.
The multiplayer suffers from many of the same problems as the single player. With bad car handling and some overly boring stages, adding seven other people to the mix adds little to the overall experience. The re-spawn system seems a little broken, giving advantages to be taken by the person who gets the faster reset. With the control issues and some really horrible off-road mechanics, many people online will find these modes a trial rather than fun.
Need for Speed: The Run feels like a prime example of how a great idea can be executed poorly. There are some amazing ideas at play within the game, but for whatever reason they are executed in a bad way. The new engine feels like it has potential but also does not seem like it has been tweaked enough to function as a proper racing game. The story does little to add to the overall experience, and the sequences outside the car feel tacked on and completely unnecessary. Overall. this is a game for the person that needs a new car game every year.
For everyone else, play last year's Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. You will be much happier, and will have hours of enjoyment at a fraction of the cost.
Need for Speed: The Run feels like a prime example of how a great idea can be executed poorly.
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Once you have children you enter the confusing spiral of constantly wanting them to have more toys so they have a new material to explore and interact with...but then there is the problem of what to do with all those large and sometimes unattractive toys once you get them.
When we moved into our new home a few months ago I made the mistake of thinking that I could have a "toy corner" in our new living room and still have the rest of the room look polished and chic - every time I walked into that room all I saw were those toys staring me in the face!
So we moved the toys downstairs for good and we are now using our downstairs level as a playroom, but it also needs to function as a family room.
To incorporate my daughter's play space into the rest of our family room decor I have picked up a few pieces that I believe blend her toys and books with the rest of the space in an attractive way.
One of the things I like so much about the Shift Bookcase from Crate and Barrel besides the low price is that the shelves are at varying levels, with some being high enough to store my daughter's tall toys. Most bookshelves cannot accommodate very large toys, and picking the toys off the ground and putting them on the shelf instantly neatens up our space.
Buying two of these ottomans was a bit of a splurge for us, even given their low price, but I believe it was a great investment as they double as both storage and seating when we have friends over for a play date.
As you can tell from the picture above this room is still a work in progress, but when it is complete I will share photos here.
Do you have any clever ways to elevate the look of your child's play space for less?


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The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman
by Bruce Jay Friedman Foreword by Bruce Jay Friedman
"A bona fide literary event." –Newsweek
Publication Date November 20, 2000
Dimensions 5.5" x 8.25"
Publication Date May 01, 2007
Bruce Jay Friedman (born April 26, 1930) is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.
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Bruce Jay Friedman has been acclaimed by critics as one of the greatest writers of his generation, a comic genius whose vision confronts the malaise of modern life with a liberating deadpan humor. The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman brings together his greatest stories, which originally appeared in Esquire, Playboy, The New Yorker, and other magazines from 1953 to 1995. These fifty-seven stories of love and angst, dreams and delusions are told with satiric touch so deft they seem almost otherworldly–until you realize you've been laughing for the past few pages.
Tags Short Stories (single author)
"Bruce Jay Friedman has earned a permanent place of the shelf of contemporary American letters." –Los Angeles Times
"Irresistibly charming and funny . . . Terrific." –The New York Observer
"Irresistible . . . comic gems . . . Mr. Friedman has been likened to everyone from J. D. Salinger to Woody Allen. This collection should finally establish him for what he is: Bruce Jay Friedman, sui generis and no mean thing. No further comparisons are necessary." –The New York Times Book Review
"Friedman writes with a wild-eyed wit, a hard-but-gentle touch, and a disturbing grasp on the fundamentals of society." –San Francisco Chronicle
"Like a Twilight Zone with Charlie Chaplin." –Mario Puzo
"From poignant bildungsroman to sly satire, from wicked comedy to surrealistic farce, a virtuostic collection . . . an expertly modulated voice that lies somewhere equidistant from those of Wilde, Salinger, and Woody Allen." –Publishers Weekly
"Includes some of his wryest stories ever written about shame, mothers, and adultery–about the analyst's couch and what got you there." –Boston Sunday Globe
"A welcome, hefty collection of an American original's finest writing." –Kirkus Reviews
"Pure delight." –Newsday
"[Friedman's stories] begin in the realm of the mundane, take a quick surreal detour, and travel erratically through an idiosyncratic and highly risible countryside." –Library Journal
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The Subversive
MY FRIEND ED STAMM was the most all-American person I've ever met. It came out when he brushed his teeth and shaved. He did both at the same time, using enormous quantities of toothpaste and shaving cream. When you approached him in the morning, he looked like a white, foaming symbol of Free World cleanliness.
I knew him in the Air Force when he was waiting to get into jet fighter training, and I was waiting to get into something small and inconspicuous where my general lack of military know-how would do the least amount of damage. He looked like a recruiting poster, with clear blue eyes and perfect profile and a sweet countryness about his mouth. Audie Murphy is the Hollywood star he most resembled, although next to him, Murphy would have seemed swarthy. He had wonderful manners and said to me at the base swimming pool when we met, "I'd certainly enjoy your compny this evening.
" I've known people who wouldn't have minded hanging around with me for a few hours, but the idea of anyone wanting my "compny" was something else again. It was a phony kind of line, but he said it with such all-American sweetness it actually became disarming. I worked it into my repertoire and even I was able to get away with it, although I used "company" instead of "compny." He also fell right on top of little children, getting right down on the ground when one came along, his face scrubbed and beaming, and then saying, "Hello, little boy (or girl)," which came out more like "Heddo, lidder booey." He wasn't trying to impress anyone. He did it when people were around or when rooms were empty. He just felt like hugging and kissing little children. I do that one too, now. I felt kind of pretentious the first few times, but then I swung into it and now I get right down there with children just as naturally as I'd check my watch for the time.
I understand that Hollywood puts its new screenwriters into categories such as "adventure," "comedy," 'suspense," "war," a typecasting, incidentally, from which I'm told they never escape. Ed's background might have been concocted by one of the lesser lights in "homespun." He came from a small town in the Midwest, lived with his family in a two-story frame house (mortgage just about paid up), had a kid sister with freckles, earned enough working part-time at a gas station to get through the local college, won four letters in sports. His dad: football and track coach at the high school. His Girl Back Home: the bank president's daughter, cheerleader at the college, voted "Prettiest" in her senior class. Tennis wasn't one of his sports, although when we played at the air base, he picked it up quickly, performing with the instinctive grace he would have brought to anything from jai alai to hammer throwing. I was better than him, though. I'd been playing for years and I beat him, not overwhelmingly, but consistently.
One day I wrapped him up pretty solidly and teased him about it and he said, 'do you want to play for money? Forty bucks." He picked just the right amount of money to get me nervous. In all our playing he'd never won a single set. Yet he looked at me in a funny way and made me back down. I said, "You can't play for money without a referee. Anyway, I'm not taking your money." I knew that in some crazy way, even though he never had before, he'd outlast me, or outgut me, or outheart me, or do whatever special thing it is that all-Americans do, and beat me no matter how much better a player I was.
I automatically gave up in all competitions with him. Where girls were concerned, we'd run neck and neck for a few minutes, but then I'd begin to peter out self-consciously and Ed would say, "We certainly would enjoy your compny in my car," whereupon I would stand by while he hooked arms with the cuter of the two and I fell in behind with the bomb. Even when a rare, offtrail girl made it perfectly plain she preferred my swarthiness to his clean-cut wholesomeness, I would begin to do a lot of staring down at the ground until she disgustedly marched off to join Ed's "compny," leaving me to guard her heavily acned friend. Once, with Ed along, I completely mastered a girl. It was at a bar in Illinois, and the girl was serving drinks to the tables. I'd come in after a Bogart movie at the base, spit something out at her through clenched teeth, and she had loved it. Through sheer accident, I'd evidently found myself a pretty little masochist. 'did I do anything wrong?" she asked, and, catching on, I spit out another line, twice as hard. "Could I call you somewhere?" she asked me, and this time, giddy in the role, I said the liquor was rotgut and knocked the shotglass off the table. "What did I do?" she asked Ed, who looked on in fascination. "For Christ's sakes, she's yours," he said to me. 'do you know what I'd do if she was giving me invitations like that?" I stared off into the distance, not really sure of what to do next, and said, "I don't go for that." She kept coming up to me, beseechingly, practically purring with hurt, and then finally I said, "All right. You can call me at Base Operations, extension 976. Any night except Wednesdays when I'm on duty."
"I see," she said, the fire dying in her eyes. Later, I saw her dancing with Ed.
This is not one of those stories in which one guy is better than his friend in a million things, and then at the end there's this one thing the friend is able to win out in, proving it's really better to be a terrible fellow with just one talent. As a matter of fact, there were quite a few things at which I was able to top him. Tennis is one I mentioned and then there is singing (he had no voice at all), general smartness (he had read very few books), and jokes. There was one girl I was sure I'd have the edge with because of the jokes and general routines I did, a new singer at the base club. As the welcoming committee that week, we were to meet her at the club and be her escorts for the evening. We sat with her awhile, Ed assuring her it was swell to be in her compny. I thought I'd work my routines in naturally, rather than announce, "Now I'll do some routines." But before I knew it, Ed was doing them, all of the best ones: Joe Louis commenting on the Ezzard Charles–Marciano fight, a Durante thing I do with a few variations of my own, and a short take from an old Fred Allen script in which two potatoes are the only characters in an avant-garde play. His Joe Louis was too Midwestern, his Durante came out Jimmy Stewart, and he blew the punchline on the Allen skit. His timing was awful, too, but the girl was giggling away just the same. After a while he said, "Now you do one, Tony," forcing me to serve up an Edward Everett Horton imitation I'd far from perfected. The singer listened patiently and in a short while was, inevitably, walking to the jukebox with Ed, nibbling at his ear.
The other all-American things I remember about him are sort of scattered and don't really sound that all-American when you set them down. He got the snuggest fit out of his jockey underwear of anyone I've ever known. He drove a new Nash, and instead of making out payment checks to the bank, he was paying off someone named "Old Man Bagley" in a combination of money and chores he was to do during his furloughs. In driving the Nash, long before he came to stops, his brake foot would begin to fidget on the pedal, caressing it, pumping it a little, testing it, until, if you were a passenger, you had ridiculous amounts of confidence that he would be able to pull off the stop. He called everyone "old buddy" and it was a thrilling and special thing to have him pat you on the back and say, "Old buddy, what'll we do tonight?"
One night, a short colonel with a twisted body and a reputation for being touchy about his youth and the quick promotions he'd received, announced he was going off to the flight line to shoot landings in jets. Ed heard him and said, "I'd certainly consider it a great privilege to go along with you, sir." It meant he was willing to squat on the floor of the plane while the colonel took off and landed and took off and landed long hours into the night. It really wasn't necessary for him to do all this and he'd be getting plenty of it in pilot training. But it was something like sweeping floors in grocery stores and doing lowly things in banks and walking several miles to school each morning, and if you're an all-American worth your salt, you don't miss chances to do these things. The colonel explained that it was going to be a pretty miserable kind of evening, but Ed said if the colonel didn't mind his compny, he'd like to go up with him. The colonel, a sour man, melted before Ed's sweetness and said okay.
I'm not entirely sure how this last thing fits into the all-American picture. It has something to do with it. In any case, I did discover that for all his pretenses of all-Americanism, the freckled sister, the gas station job, the chores for Old Man Bagley, my friend Ed Stamm was a subversive.
I found this out during a weekend in which Ed invited me and a mutual "old buddy" of ours named Rig to his home in Iowa for the weekend. We made a perfect movie combat trio with Ed, the hero; Rig, the slow-talker from Texas; and me, the Brooklyn boy, telling jokes about my mother's potato pancakes. We drove in shifts, with Ed, by silent agreement, taking over my turn, since my driving was uneven and I was obviously unable to do those confidence-inspiring pumps with my brake foot. Our first stop in Ed's town was at his girl's house; she came running out the way they do in Andy Hardy movies, predictably and agonizingly pretty, filling the car with a minty Seventeen freshness, kissing Ed's head like a puppy, and then flouncing herself around and teasing with Ed's "Old buddies' while Ed drove to the–you guessed it–tree-lined street on which he lived. Ed's father and sister were on the lawn waiting for us, his dad a slender, slightly taller and gray-haired Ed, his sister freckled, and surprisingly (rather disappointingly, since she was to be my date) broad-shouldered. Mr. Stamm took to Rig immediately, regarding me with a hint of suspicion. He had heard that Rig was in charge of painting at the air base and said to us all, "Now don't forget, boys. You're going to work for your meals. I've got a fence back there could use a good coat of paint."
Not much more that night. We all ate dinner together, with Mr. Stamm, after donning apron and cook's hat, fixing and serving the meal. Later, when Ed's girl had gone home, Mr. Stamm turned down our beds and said good night to us. The following day, Ed went off early to do one of those chores for Mr. Bagley. Rig and I ate breakfast with Mr. Stamm and then we really did paint the fence. I thought the idea was wholesome and everything, but I could have done without it. In the afternoon, we all went to a roadside place and danced, Rig and Ed taking turns with Ed's girl. I danced with Ed's sister. A female version of Ed should have been wonderful, and she certainly was healthy looking, but when you analyzed her, she turned out to be all back and no bosom. It was that night at dinner that Ed was unmasked as a subversive.
We had all decided to wear our dress uniforms at the dance that night, and were sitting around the table with Ed's sister, as though we were at a festive NATO conference. Mr. Stamm, in apron and cook's hat, once again was serving platters of food. Ed had just done a George Sanders takeoff of mine, poorly, and then, as though to sell me to his father, said, "That one was made up by my old buddy here, Tony."
"That Rig can certainly paint a fence," said Mr. Stamm. "I could use a boy like that around here. I'd keep him jumping." Rig said, "Yes, I believe you would, too," drawling out the line, and Mr. Stamm slapped him on the back and said, "Oh that Rig, he's a corker."
Ed said, "I know how to pick my old buddies," and then a wheelchair came into the room carrying a shriveled woman in a bathrobe with deep crevasses in her face and beautiful blue eyes. Her bathrobe went flat below her waist, concealing either withered legs or none at all.
Ed stood up at the table, his eyes shut and his fists clenched, screaming in a monotone, 'sON OF A BITCH. SON OF A BITCH. GET IT OUT OF HERE. DIRTY. DIRTY. SON OF A BITCH. OH, DIRTY, DIRTY BITCH."
The woman said, sweetly, "Now Ed. Now Ed," and he screamed, "YAAH, YAAH, YAAH."
Mr. Stamm came over quickly and said, "Now Ed," spinning the wheelchair around and taking it out the door, with the woman saying, "Now Ed, now Ed," patiently and sweetly, and giving off an odor of camphor.
When Mr. Stamm got back, we continued the meal, the chatter starting up again, with Mr. Stamm teasing Rig about getting a bargain on some Air Force paint, Ed telling Mr. Stamm about the books I'd read, and Mr. Stamm finally succumbing and saying to me, "We had a Brooklyn boy at school here once. Got along just fine." Later, we went to the dance on schedule and I got in several dances with Ed's girl, her sharp, pointed bosoms a fine relief from my date's vague ones. We started back for the base around noon the following day, after shoveling a little coal for Mr. Stamm, who'd jokingly suggested we do it to work off our meals.
Weeks later, Ed and I drifted apart, or possibly got wrenched apart. My assignment came through before he got into jet pilot training. In the first weeks of getting oriented in my new job in base information, I didn't call him at all, and once, when I did see him, I failed to introduce him to my new friends. They were flip and waspish and, for one brief second, I was a little ashamed of Ed. He must have sensed it. In any case, I violated some crazy all-American code of his for friendship. When I saw him later, there was a flatness between us, and we were never to be close again. This was much to my regret, because many times I longed for his compny and for his arm around my shoulder and for him saying, "What are we doing tonight, old buddy?"
In any case, I think of him as the most all-American person I ever knew (or perhaps I should drop the all-American part–because that's sarcastic and I don't mean to be–and just say "American"), his looks, his manners, his sweetness, the bit with the little boys and girls. Or at least I would think of him that way if I could forget that one subversive thing he pulled at dinner that night. It proved to me that you probably can't trust a goddamned soul in this country.
©1997 by Bruce Jay Friedman. Reprinted with permission from Grove Atlantic Inc. All rights reserved
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The video below walks through a Reverse Harvey adjustment that was made to the February CIB. With the move lower in RUT, we had an open profit and it made sense to protect the position in case of a fast move higher. The Reverse Harvey knocks in the wings of the Butterfly and reduces risk. The downside is that we experience a loss of Theta, but the position is directionally "safer." The Results Spreadsheet has been updated.
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Very interesting adjustment to this CIB. The positions risk profile looks much safer after the adjustment.
My question would be if you were to consider this type of adjustment usually for CIB or is just this case in which looking the current technical aspect of the RUT graph you consider to do it with the aim of reducing the risk from a sharp upwards move from support.
Thanks for the comment! Yes, the position is directionally safer after the adjustment. This adjustment is something I always consider when it makes sense. In this case, the market is moving around a lot and I'm not sure where it's heading. I'd rather take some risk out of the position and guard myself against a bigger move.
You're correct that this adjustment really protected the upside more than the downside and it looks like it might not have been the best choice, but that's okay. We never know where the market will go and adjustments that reduce risk are good when we have a fast market. We're seeing a lot of volatility come in and I'd rather sit in a trade knowing that whatever happens doesn't matter as much. Hope that helps!
Great explanation and great video as always. Thanks for posting it. It indeed reduces the risk and flattens the T+0 line nicely. I had done minor adjustment to Feb CIB earlier as a result I am not up in profit as much as you do. However, I had a risk on left side if market moves further. However, after watching your morning post, I applied this adjustment and my risk is reduced to just $720 on both sides and my trade would survive another 1 SD move without any significant loss tomorrow. Thanks again for posting this video!!
Awesome Sohil, glad it helped! When the market starts moving fast (like it is now) I get more cautious and try to protect profits wherever possible. It looks like the overnight action is ugly again and I'm not too worried about it. In my mind, taking a smaller profit or scratching in the face of a big move is winning. When we trade that way, we can be around when the environment is more favorable. Thanks for the comment!


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package org.apache.causeway.testdomain.publishing.jdo;

import javax.inject.Inject;

import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.test.context.TestPropertySource;

import org.apache.causeway.core.config.presets.CausewayPresets;
import org.apache.causeway.testdomain.conf.Configuration_usingJdo;
import org.apache.causeway.testdomain.jdo.HasPersistenceStandardJdo;
import org.apache.causeway.testdomain.publishing.PublishingTestFactoryAbstract;
import org.apache.causeway.testdomain.publishing.PublishingTestFactoryJdo;
import org.apache.causeway.testdomain.publishing.conf.Configuration_usingLifecycleEventPublishing;
import org.apache.causeway.testdomain.publishing.stubs.LifecycleEventPublishingTestAbstract;

@SpringBootTest(
        classes = {
                Configuration_usingJdo.class,
                Configuration_usingLifecycleEventPublishing.class,
                PublishingTestFactoryJdo.class,
                //XrayEnable.class
        },
        properties = {
                "logging.level.org.apache.causeway.testdomain.util.event.LifecycleEventSubscriberForTesting=DEBUG",
                "logging.level.org.springframework.orm.jpa.*=DEBUG",
                "logging.level.org.apache.causeway.testdomain.util.kv.KVStoreForTesting=DEBUG",
        })
@TestPropertySource({
    CausewayPresets.UseLog4j2Test
})
class JdoLifecycleEventPublishingTest
extends LifecycleEventPublishingTestAbstract
implements HasPersistenceStandardJdo {

    @Inject private PublishingTestFactoryJdo testFactory;

    @Override
    protected PublishingTestFactoryAbstract getTestFactory() {
        return testFactory;
    }

}

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Chief Executive dismisses concerns by SOS.
The Local Plan is due to be delivered to the Planning Inspectorate on Friday and an Inspector is lined up to start work on the plan on Monday.
As part of his pre-examination assessment the Inspector will assess whether further work is necessary or recommended and I think it more appropriate that the Council is guided by his assessment.
I cannot therefore recommend that the Plan, which as you know deals with the whole district, be further delayed by the Council at this stage just to deal with the issues you have selected/identified for Sidmouth.
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Separatist groups in region pose 'clear and present' danger to Singapore: PM Lee
The separatist groups in South-east Asia pose a "clear and present" danger to Singapore, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, as Singaporeans have been drawn to fight for their causes.PHOTO: ST FILE
Security personnel patrolling at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, on May 22, 2017. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Jun 10, 2017, 8:00 am SGT
http://str.sg/4bT9
Toh Yong Chuan
tohyc@sph.com.sg
SINGAPORE - The separatist groups in South-east Asia pose a "clear and present" danger to Singapore, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, as Singaporeans have been drawn to fight for their causes.
Mr Lee also said that if caught, they will be allowed to return home. "But we will make sure he has not brought back any dangerous ideas and is not likely to do any harm.''
He made these points in an interview with Australia's ABC Radio National on Saturday (June 10) when he was asked to assess the terror threat in Singapore.
"We worry about extremist terrorism a lot," he said.
"The Middle East seems a long way away but it is not. This is a problem which is amidst us."
Singaporeans, though few, are among the Malaysians, Indonesians and others from South-east Asia that have gone to the Middle East to join the fight.
Some others have gone to Southern Philippines, Mr Lee noted, and linked up with separatist groups there. They include the Maute, a group that took over Marawi city last month, and the militant Abu Sayyaf group.
Said the Prime Minister: "It is a clear and present danger."
The Philippines had said Singaporeans were among the foreign fighters in the Maute group that attacked Marawi, a largely-Muslim city with more than 200,000 people.
Globalisation can create jobs and raise salaries for Singaporeans: PM Lee
It did not give further details on the Singaporeans or their roles in the Maute group, which has pledged allegiance to terror group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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Separately, Singapore's Home Affairs Ministry confirmed that a Singaporean man, who has been in southern Philippines since the 1990s, has been implicated in terrorism activities there.
But the ministry said there is no indication the man, who was not identified, is involved in the ongoing insurgency.
Mr Lee also said a potential attack in Singapore "is a matter of when and not whether."
"We assume that one day, something will happen in Singapore and we are doing our best to prepare ourselves."
The measures include preparing the population psychologically and making sure Singapore's multi-racial society does not come under "catastrophic stress", he said.
"The risk is not just the casualties from the physical attack but the psychological damage done to the trust and confidence between people of different races and religions in Singapore, particularly between the Muslims and the non-Muslims," he added.
Mr Lee's comments follows a commitment made by Defence Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen last week at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual regional security forum.
Dr Ng said Singapore is ready to assist in joint patrols or other counter-terrorism initiatives by Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
It is in Singapore's interests to join these efforts because if terrorists gain a foothold in the region, they can spread their violence to other Asean cities, including Singapore, he added.
LEE HSIEN LOONG


LANSING, Ill. (January 23, 2019) – The blood supply is at critically low levels throughout the entire Chicagoland region, according to Vitalant (formerly LifeSource), which reports that it's down to just 1-1/2 day's blood supply on hand.
The recent bout of severe winter weather and an active cold and flu season are affecting blood centers all across the country. In Chicago, the shortage has impacted many area hospitals, some of which have been forced to postpone surgeries, including those involving life-saving organ transplants.
Currently, there's a critical need for platelets and type O blood donations; however, all blood types are needed. In emergency situations, when a patient's blood type isn't known, doctors reach for type O blood first until the patient can be stabilized. Platelets have a very short shelf life—only five days.
three-day supply of type O blood, but currently is at half of that amount.
In late December and early January, blood donations were down 47 percent locally in comparison to the first two weeks of December.
Donors are encouraged to give blood in the coming days to immediately rebuild the community blood supply. Vitalant operates 17 area donation centers which will have extended hours for the next week. To schedule an appointment, go to vitalant.org or call 877-258-4825.
Volunteer blood donors must be at least 16 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds, and be in general good health. Donors who are 16 must have signed permission from a parent or guardian.
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Why 'Golden State Killer' may have stopped murder spree: Investigator
ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — The deadly crime spree of the "Golden State Killer" includes a five-year pause that has remained a baffling mystery to this day.
But now, with the arrest of 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo, a former police officer, the lead detective in the case believes he knows why the alleged serial killer who terrorized California residents for two decades took a break between a 1981 double homicide and the last slaying attributed to him in 1986.
Retired Det. Paul Holes, who investigated the case for decades, says in an interview to air Friday on ABC's "20/20" that he believes fear of being confronted by a combative victim caused him to halt the attacks after the murders of Cheri Domingo and Gregory Sanchez on July 27, 1981, in Goleta.
And Holes said lust is likely the reason the killer struck again on May 4, 1986, with the rape and murder of Janelle Lisa Cruz in Irvine.
"I believe what ended up happening were two things: In 1981, he ends up going into kill Gregory Sanchez and Cheri Domingo. And he gets in a physical fight with 6-foot-3 Gregory Sanchez. And I think that physical altercation with Sanchez scared him. We don't have an attack for five years," Holes said in the interview.
"But then … for some reason, he runs across beautiful 19-year-old Janelle Cruz and can't help himself. And kills her," said Holes, a former Contra Costa County cold-case detective.
Following Cruz's killing, the "Golden State Killer" rampage suddenly stopped. No other cases were linked to the serial killer, and Holes shared his theory why he seemed to go into retirement.
"At this point, he's an aging offender," Holes said. "And so, he is no longer in that prime where he's now going out as frequently as he wants, naturally due to his age."
But Holes said "it is possible, but I think it's relatively unlikely" that the killer continued his reign of terror after he targeted Cruz.
"But I can't say for sure," Holes said. "I know we have looked over the years for additional cases, 'cause we wanted to try to see if we could find more. And we haven't. So, it's not just starting that search now. That's been ongoing for a long time. And we've been unsuccessful."
Detectives suspect that during the crime spree, the "Golden State Killer" committed 12 murders, at least 50 rapes and multiple home burglaries throughout the state. They believe he first struck on June 18, 1976, when, wearing a mask and gloves, he broke into a woman's home in Rancho Cordova and robbed her of money and jewelry.
DeAngelo worked as a police officer in the rural central California town of Exeter from 1973 to 1976, and later for the Auburn, California, Police Department until 1979, when he was fired for shoplifting dog repellent and a hammer, officials said.
At the start of the "Golden State Killer" crime spree, DeAngelo would have been 31 years old. At the time of Cruz's rape and murder, he would have been 40.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, which is currently investigating the case, has not publicly offered any theories as to why the killings paused during the five years or stopped after 1986.
DeAngelo, a married father of three adult children, was arrested on April 24 at his home in Citrus Heights, a suburb of Sacramento, after detectives used DNA evidence allegedly linking him to the cold-case crime spree.
"Finally I got to see the face of the man that I've been hunting for 24 years," Holes of DeAngelo's arrest. "I can now read these case files and visualize Joe DeAngelo committing these acts, as opposed to this nameless masked man."
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Trailer For Horror Anthology 'Nightmare Cinema' Released
By The Movie God | @ | April 24th, 2019 at 8:00 pm
You're not going to find many horror fans who will ever get sick of anthologies. They may not all be good, but they're almost always worth at least one watch on the likely chance that at least one of the segments will be fun.
One upcoming horror anthology is titled Nightmare Cinema. It features five tales directed by Mick Garris, Joe Dante, David Slade, Alejandro Brugués, and Ryûhei Kitamura, and stars Mickey Rourke as the character who is connected to the various stories, known as The Projectionist.
A new trailer for the movie has been released, and you can find it below along with a synopsis.
Tags: Alejandro Brugues, Cranked Up Films, David Slade, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, Mickey Rourke, Nightmare Cinema, Ryuhei Kitamura, Shudder
Movie Review: King Cohen: The Wild World Of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
By Dr. Zaius | @ | August 2nd, 2018 at 10:00 am
King Cohen
The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Written and Directed by Steve Mitchell
Featuring Larry Cohen, Martin Scorsese, J.J Abrams, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, John Landis, Fred Williamson
Release date: August 3, 2018 (NYC premiere)
Who is Larry Cohen? If you don't recognize his name, I promise you'll recognize his films. The now 77-year old has been working in the industry since the late 1950s and evolved from writing noir and western television to become a prolific genre filmmaker. His most prominent works include Black Caesar (1973), It's Alive (1974), God Told Me To (1976), Q (1982), The Stuff (1985), and Phone Booth (2002). In all he has over 80 writing credits and 20+ directorial efforts. But more than his films was his renegade and rogue filmmaking style. A writer who became a director and producer, Larry Cohen was the consummate hustler and true triple threat. His life and career are now the subject of a phenomenal documentary, King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen, written and directed by Steve Mitchell and put out by Dark Star Pictures.
Topics: Documentary, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews
Tags: Dark Star Pictures, Documentary, Fred Williamson, J.J. Abrams, Joe Dante, John Landis, King Cohen, Larry Cohen, Martin Scorsese, Mick Garris, Steve Mitchell
'Gremlins 3' Update From Star Zach Galligan
By The Movie God | @ | December 27th, 2016 at 4:07 pm
Amidst all of these reboots and remakes and sequels, it is pretty surprising that we've not yet seen Gremlins 3 find life. We've heard about a new movie in the franchise in the past—sometimes as a remake, sometimes as a sequel—but nothing has ever come of it.
Thankfully Zach Galligan, who starred in the first two Gremlins movies, is keeping us updated on where things stand. Continue below to read what he had to say.
Tags: Chris Columbus, Gremlins, Gremlins 3, Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, Warner Brothers, Zach Galligan
SDCC 2015: Watch The 'Tales Of Halloween' Horror Anthology Trailer
By The Movie God | @ | July 11th, 2015 at 11:00 am
If the bloody and beautiful official trailer and October 31st premiere date announcement for Ash vs. Evil Dead wasn't enough to get you ready for summer to go away so that fall can arrive—and it should be more than enough—here's another little treat for you horror junkies.
A trailer for the anthology movie Tales of Halloween was unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con 2015, featuring contributions from 11 directors with a knack for the terror and scares and gooey, gory fun we fans of fear live for.
You can read more about Tales of Halloween, including a full rundown of all of the directors and cast involved, and watch the trailer below.
Tags: Adam Gierasch, Adam Green, Adrienne Barbeau, Alex Essoe, Andrew Kasch, Axelle Carolyn, Barry Bostwick, Booboo Stewart, Darren Lynn Bousman, Dave Parker, Grace Phipps, Graham Skipper, Greg Grunberg, James Duval, Joe Dante, John Landis, John Skipp, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Keir Gilchrist, Kristina Klebe, Lin Shaye, Lucky McKee, Marc Senter, Mick Garris, Mike Mendez, Neil Marshall, Noah Segan, Pat Healy, Paul Solet, Pollyanna McIntosh, Ryan Schifrin, Sam Witwer, Stuart Gordon, Tales of Halloween
Actor and Comedian Rick Ducommun Of 'The 'Burbs' and 'Groundhog Day' Has Died
By BAADASSSSS! | June 18th, 2015 at 2:16 pm
Actor, writer, and stand-up comic Rick Ducommun, best known for his hilarious performances in such classics of cinematic comedy as The 'Burbs and Groundhog Day, has passed away. He was 58.
Born on July 3, 1956 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Ducommun began his acting career on the short-lived Canadian children's television program Zig Zag. After a series of bit parts in various films and TV shows, he co-starred with future Oscar-winning superstar Tom Hanks in the cult classic dark comedy The 'Burbs as a paranoid suburbanite who suspects that the new family in their neighborhood are a gang of Satan-worshiping psychopaths.
Topics: Celebrity, Movies, News, Obit, Television
Tags: Die Hard, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Joe Dante, Rick Ducommun, Scary Movie, The 'Burbs
SXSW 2014 Review: That Guy Dick Miller
By Adam Frazier | @ | March 8th, 2014 at 12:30 pm
That Guy Dick Miller
Director: Elijah Drenner
Cast: Dick Miller, Joe Dante, Roger Corman, William Sadler, Corey Feldman, John Sayles, Mary Woronov, Robert Picardo, Zach Galligan
World Premiere | End Films
Not Rated | 91 Minutes
Release Date: March 7, 2014 (SXSW)
Dick Miller is the last of the great American character actors. Whether sharing the screen with Nicholson, Hanks, Schwarzenegger, or The Ramones, Dick has been stealing scenes since his screen debut in 1955.
Miller has worked with some of the great directors: Scorsese, Corman, Dante, Cameron, Demme, and more. If you're an avid moviegoer, you definitely know his face, but few know his name and even fewer know his story: an aspiring writer turned accidental actor.
Directed by Elijah Drenner, That Guy Dick Miller documents Miller's funny and unexpected story, featuring interviews from the directors, producers, co-stars, and friends who have helped make him Hollywood's leading "that guy."
Topics: Film Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews, SXSW
Tags: Corey Feldman, DIck Miller, Documentary, Elijah Drenner, End Films, grindhouse, Joe Dante, John Sayles, Mary Woronov, Robert Picardo, Roger Corman, SXSW, That Guy Dick Miller, William Sadler, Zach Galligan
Kickstarter Spotlight: Video Watchdog Launches Campaign To Digitize Their Massive Print Archive
By BAADASSSSS! | December 7th, 2013 at 12:48 pm
Quentin Tarantino, a man who knows a thing or two about the world of cinema, once called Video Watchdog "the most reliable film magazine in the world." Since its launch in 1990, the brainchild of editor and publisher Tim Lucas – a noted film journalist and author of original novels (Throat Sprockets) and nonfiction books about cinema (Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark) – and his wife Donna Lucas (who also serves as the magazine's art director and co-publisher) that began life as a series of print columns and video featurettes for various publications has become one of the best film-related magazines on the market.
Topics: Features, Kickstarter Spotlight, Movies
Tags: Donna Lucas, Joe Dante, Kickstarter, Kickstarter Spotlight, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Lucas, Video Watchdog
Blu-ray Review: The Howling (Collector's Edition)
By Adam Frazier | @ | June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 pm
Blu-ray (Collector's Edition) | DVD (Collector's Edition)
Screenwriter: John Sayles, Terence H. Winkless
Cast: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Belinda Balaski
Rated R | 91 Minutes
Directed by Joe Dante (Rock 'n' Roll High School, Gremlins), The Howling is 1981 horror film written by John Sayles and Terence H. Winkless and features an original music score composed by Pino Donaggio.
Based on Gary Brandner's 1977 novel, The Howling arrives on Blu-ray June 18, 2013 with a well-stocked selection of commentaries, interviews, featurettes, and deleted scenes. The film stars Dee Wallace (E.T., Critters, Cujo) as Karen White, a Los Angeles television news anchor who is being stalked by a serial murderer named Eddie Quist (Robert Picardo). In cooperation with the police, she takes part in a scheme to capture Eddie by agreeing to meet him in a sleazy porno shop.
Topics: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Review, DVD Reviews, DVDs, Movies, Reviews
Tags: Belinda Balaski, Dee Wallace, Dennis Dugan, Joe Dante, John Sayles, Patrick Macnee, Scream Factory, Terence H. Winkless, The Howling
Roger Corman Launches Paid YouTube Channel 'Corman's Drive-In'
By BAADASSSSS! | June 13th, 2013 at 9:15 am
A month ago, we reported that legendary producer Roger "King of the B's" Corman was starting a subscriber-only YouTube channel this summer called Corman's Drive-In that would bring an extensive catalog of over 400 films he either produced, directed, or both to the Internet.
Corman's Drive-In is now officially open for business and we have some other crucial details for you. The channel will feature a rotating selection of 30 titles that will be refreshed every month and it will all be made available to viewers for the low monthly price of $3.99. It will premiere with a double feature of the first two films Corman made with future Oscar-winning Hollywood icon Jack Nicholson: the 1958 exploitation drama The Cry Baby Killer and 1960's man-eating plant comedy Little Shop of Horrors, the latter the inspiration for the 1986 musical remake and the off-Broadway show it was based on.
Topics: Movies, News
Tags: Bill Paxton, Bill Pullman, exploitation, Jack Nicholson, Joe Dante, Little Shop of Horrors, Piranha, Roger Corman, Ron Howard, YouTube
'King Of The B's' Roger Corman Launching Paid YouTube Channel This Summer
By BAADASSSSS! | May 13th, 2013 at 2:09 pm
Roger Corman may be known to most as the premiere producer of some of the finest exploitation movies ever made, but to those in the know he is also one of the most important and influential figures in the entertainment industry. Many of Hollywood's finest talents on both sides of the camera owe their careers in some part to the go-for-broke tutelage they were given by working for Corman, including filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Robert Towne, Peter Bogdanovich, and Ron Howard, and actors like Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, and Robert Englund. Corman is a legend, and that is the undisputed truth.
This summer Corman is bringing a catalog of over 400 films he produced and/or directed to the vast cybernetic landscape of the Internet as he launches Corman's Drive-In, a YouTube channel that will offer up his films for viewing for a fee still yet to be determined.
Tags: Death Race, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, Grand Theft Auto, Jack Nicholson, Joe Dante, Little Shop of Horrors, Martin Scorsese, Peter Fonda, Piranha, Robert Englund, Roger Corman, Ron Howard, Tommy Lee Jones, William Shatner, YouTube


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by mdegeorge | October 7, 2009 · 9:15 am
Playoff Preview: Yankees vs. Twins
The Yankees have known for pretty much the last three months that they would be playing in the postseason, tallying 103 wins for the best record in the Bigs, and an eight-game margin in the AL East. The Twins have known about their inclusion in the playoffs for less than 24 hours by the time the series starts in the Bronx, as they squeaked in thanks to a thrilling 6-5 victory in 12 innings in a one-game playoff with Detroit. On paper, the Yankees have the distinct advantage, having swept all seven games in the season series.
The Yankees win if: They avoid the expectations they have succumbed to in the playoffs in the recent past. The end of Joe Torre's tenure in New York was marked by teams that grossly underachieved come October. It's been eight years since they lifted a banner in the Bronx, and the pressure is mounting by the day. And they could get caught looking past the Twins to the prospect of a meeting with either their arch-enemy Red Sox or their playoff albatross Angels in the ALCS. Across the board, the Yankees have the superior talent (lineup, bullpen, starters). But a defeat or two at the hands of the Twins could bring out the boo-birds and the thoughts of "here we go again," both in and out of the clubhouse.
The Twins win if: Their starting pitching keeps things together just enough. Offensively, the Twins aren't going to blow anyone away. Losing top RBI man Justin Morneau hasn't helped, but it has made the team refocus its efforts on small ball and producing runs station to station. It may be too much to ask for a staff who's most experienced postseason performer is Carl Pavano against the most prolific offense in the majors this season. But with a strong bullpen anchored by perennial All-Star Joe Nathan, young starters like Nick Blackburn, Brian Deunsing, and Scott Baker may not need to be exceptional, but merely solid to give them a chance.
The X-factor: The Twins' momentum. The Twinkies finished the season with 17 wins in the final 21 games to win the Central, all since Mourneau went down to injury. They have a proven star and leader in Joe Mauer, good veterans in Michael Cuddyer and Jason Kubel, and just enough offensive cover to sustain their small ball style. They're a plucky, hard-nosed team that lives off solid defense. Sound like 2007 Rockies? Also, keep in mind that while the Yankees won all seven meetings this year, six were decided by two runs or less, and momentum in the postseason can be the great equalizer.
The verdict: I wish I had the courage to say the Twins would topple the odds and the Yankees, but the combination of a possible letdown, exhaustion, and the Yankees strong lineup make the ALDS another uphill battle for the Twins. Ultimately, Jeter, A-Rod, and Mo will survive and advance. Anything more than four games would be a distinct surprise.
-Matthew De George '10
Filed under National Sports
Tagged as 2009 Postseason, ALDS, Alex Rodriguez, Brian Deunsing, Carl Pavano, Derek Jeter, Jason Kubel, Joe Mauer, Joe Nathan, Justin Morneau, Mariano Rivera, Michael Cuddyer, Nick Blackburn, Scott Baker, Twins, Yankees


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Yes, this is a public service announcement – Nicolas House closed its doors in December 2016.
Nicolas House was a rabbit themed cafe in Harajuku, just near Omotesando, owned by French chef Nicholas Charles, who has lived in Japan for more than a few years and has an obsession with bunnies.
We stopped by Nicholas House one afternoon for some tea and rabbit inspired profiteroles (more commonly known as choux pastries or cream puffs in Japan). Before being shown to our table, we were given bunny ears to wear for the duration of our meal. And this being Japan, there was a system behind the bunny ears. Each time you visited Nicholas House, you would be upgraded to a fancier pair of rabbit ears. There were four levels of membership to move through.
Having been to Tokyo Disney Resort so many times, sitting around wearing a headband with ears on it seems almost normal to me (albeit this time we were wearing rabbit ears, not Mickey Mouse ears).
Inside Nicholas House, the decor is different to what we had come to expect from themed cafes. The furniture comprised old pieces, second-hand books in various languages could be found on shelves and by the tables, and a combination of fake food (mostly replica Nicholas House bunny parfaits and cream puffs) and soft toy rabbits were all over the place.
On the one hand, I thought it was cool that Nicholas House was a bit quirkier and more personalised than a lot of the overly commercial themed cafes out there. On the other hand, my partner felt it was a bit creepy. Either way, it was nice to be able to walk straight in and get a table in a themed cafe that wasn't crowded!
They also had a nice selection of herbal teas. I ordered a hibiscus tea, and was led to a collection of cups and saucers to select my tea cup of my choice.
Above: Lavender & matcha bunny choux pastry.
Above: Kawaii raspberry bunny cream puff.
Whilst the cafe was located upstairs, there was also a store at street level for anyone wanting to buy a rabbit cream puff take-away (take-out, for my American readers). Payments for eating in were also made downstairs at the shop, and it was cash-only.
Above: Outside, fake food displays showed the kawaii parfaits and cute rabbit choux pastries.
Above: And of course, there were also fake food displays of the savoury meals that Nicholas House sold.
I was sorry to hear that Nicholas House closed in late 2016. It looked like there just weren't enough customers to sustain the cafe, and it's a shame that he wasn't able to just run a take-out store selling the rabbit parfaits and cream puffs instead.


The Penfield Library has a VHS copy of news footage covering this storm. Many were without power for 1-2 weeks. The Massaro Sculpture Garden was inspired by the debris left in a local artist's yard. Over 14,000 trees were destroyed and had to replanted over the next four years.
A surprisingly early ice storm hit the Buffalo area in October 2006. Its official name, given by the National Weather Service, was "Aphid",1 though it has also been called many other names, such as "The Columbus Day Massacre".
The storm began in the evening on Thursday, October 13 and ended the following morning.


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