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I'm thrilled to share that Random House Loveswept has acquired my next series, tentatively titled: Highland Protectors. Watch for updates on these contemporary Highland romances in 2017.
I'm excited to announce that three of my books previously published with The Wild Rose Press have been acquired by AmazonEncore, an imprint of Amazon Publishing. BEYOND A HIGHLAND WHISPER, THE HIGHLANDER'S FURY and STONE GUARDIAN will soon have new covers and the opportunity to reach even more readers.
My next series of sexy Highlanders and the time-traveling women who tame them has found a home with Random House Loveswept! The first two books are tentatively slated for release Spring 2015 and Fall 2015.
THE HIGHLANDER'S FURY is a 2013 Reader's Crown Finalist!
I'm happy to announce I've signed another contract with The Wild Rose Press for my time-travel romance, STONE GUARDIAN (tentative title).
A HIGHLANDER IN HER PAST is now available as an audiobook! Here's the link: Audible Audio Edition
The Highlander's Fury and Eternity's Mark are out now!
Eternity's Mark won Kensington Brava & RT Book Review's Writing With the Stars Contest!
Eternity's Mark will be a Kensington Brava April 2012 release.
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If the UK government allows this to go ahead then the UK IT industry is utterly screwed.
Around 200 Hewlett-Packard workers who provide IT services support to the Department for Work and Pensions in the North of England could see their jobs move overseas before the year is out. That's the claim being made by the Public and Commercial Services Union, which represents 2,000 HP staff in the UK. Proposals to offshore …
If the UK government allows this to go ahead then the UK IT industry is utterly screwed.
Thousands of IT jobs have been offshored. The UK IT industry still exists.
The Market for IT staff managing offshored teams is healthy. There are plenty of jobs in fixed offshored work or taking back offshored work.
is that until now, data held about you by the Government has been held and processed in this country on the grounds of data security, If HP get agreement to transfer this data overseas then every other company with an outsourcing contract will be looking to send the data that they hold about you overseas for all the usual reasons. This troubles me for two reasons, the first being that ir repesrents a hell of a lot of jobs, but the second reason is that it represents a hell of a lot of data that I would rather be processed by people to whom there is legal recourse if they leak it. Is it's offshore and out of reach and your tax records get published to whole wide word, I want the person doing the leaking susceptible to getting their arse imprisoned in this country, rather than sitting somewhere with no extradition treaty thimbing their nose at us.
We tell the government an awful lot of stuff about ourselves. Who do want looking after that information? If my bank screws up and leaks left right and centre from a call centre in foreign parts I can move my account, I don't have that choice with HMRC, the DoH, the Border Agency any other government department that holds senitive information about me,
"Thousands of IT jobs have been offshored. The UK IT industry still exists."
And thousands of people die in road accidents, but other people still live. I guess that it's not special to you until it's one of yours?
"The Market for IT staff managing offshored teams is healthy."
I see. You know where there are 200 jobs managing offshored teams?
What is actually special about this one, is that HP are probably saying that they are doing it to "save money" for the tax payer, but the union can then ask; how much does it actually save the tax payer? They will have to employ the overseas people, pay for the links to connect them to the UK, still pay for people here to manage them. PLUS the tax payer pays for the people who used to do the job, to sit at home while the 200 of them chase the job market for "IT staff managing offshored teams "
"What is actually special about this one, is that HP are probably saying that they are doing it to "save money" for the tax payer"
Yup. The tax payer in this case being HP.
"The Market for IT staff managing offshored teams is healthy" - dream on. Speaking as someone who works for a large IT shop, I'm seeing that now that the work has been sent offshore, the management of the work is going there too. The only roles left are Project Managers to co-ordinate the teams. Where once you had an onshore team of 100, you now have only 5 or so onshore PMs.
"would be overshadowed by the costs to the taxpayer"
"government must not allow low-paid jobs to be offshored"
"It will be a disaster for UK workers and the taxpayer"
"will only ensure that Hewlett Packard's shareholders reap the benefits"
The usual communitarist mode. Money for shareholders is "ungood" (fact is that's what the whole show is about, fact is that money is taxed, then invested/spent somewhere), it's the gov's role to micromanage jobs or tell private entities what to do (the Fabrikvorsteher will see you now) and the poor "taxpayer" is invoked as there may be costs for expensive "social programs" - however these should already have been paid for earlier through taxes that HP paid, money which hasn't gone into the pockets of the "workers" but in the "social programs" trough, btw.
Of course, a strike will solve that, no problem.
And I claim my £5.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/it_angle_32.png It appears to be happening more and more, I just finished a short contract with a company doing the same thing off-shoring its IT - lots of very unhappy locals, and more unskilled off-shoreres than you could shake a stick at, I am sure there were skill ones as well but not that I could see!
BTW has there ever been an impartial study as to the benefits or not to offshore - is it just the fact that the offshore workforce is so cheap that it works in the eyes of the bean counters, or is it the fact that offshore companies can take existing inefficient IT departments and run with them rather than the UK companies doing some radical restructuring.
Come on government pull your finger out, this has to stop, before the IT profession and any innovation is killed off in the UK.
This is just a continuation of the Hurd era strategy. More than likely older more expensive workers are the ones that will be cut.
Much as it does affect me, why are people working within the UK IT industry surprised by this development? If making (or supporting) widgets here in the UK costs 10x as much as it would in India or other developed countries it surely shouldn't come as a big surprise that those who control the purse strings seek to maximise their profits and reduce their overheads by moving the work overseas.
In the good old days of making steam engines the costs of shipping the work overseas would be enormous, as you can't just send the work down the phone line like you can in IT.
Perhaps in favour of this situation might be the news that if reducing the overhead for managing the pension pot is reduced then that can only be a good thing for the UK population. Would you want your pension reduced so as to support workers earning a decent wage in the UK?
Writing is on the wall for the IT industry chaps, might be worth seeing what other careers might be worth following up on.
And Paris because someone mentioned being screwed.
they price themself out of the market PERIOD.
Union is killing the economy, not offshore job
Heh. Tell that to the people in the UK, employed in IT in Lloyds Banking Group who are being removed from their jobs every week, and replaced with overseas 'talent'.
It's not the Union that's dismissing the workers.
Isn't that the craziest thing anyone ever heard from a security point of view?
It is one thing having an offshored bank team having access to your financial data (there are controls in place to prevent abuse), but how long will it take for sysadmin A in bangalore to export that sql database with ALL your personal pension related info, and sell it to spammers/marketers etc...
This will make the lost discs incident look like a drop in the ocean...
If this happens, this is the end of gov security in this country... DWP first, MOJ next???
Working for a government organisation here in France, which has tens of millions euros in HP gear, from basic desktops to Superdomes and huge blade farms. We've seen pretty much all the support services we pay for being outsourced to Tunisia and India, and HP certainly didn't ask whether we were happy with that or not. It has started with the call handling facilities for h/w repairs, but now the whole tech support for their Intel line of product has moved to Tunisia. And it really sucks. The level of expertise and experience of the people we now deal with has dropped dramatically. I've more or less entirely given up opening calls for software support because software support has become completely useless. Repairs are a nightmare, with qualification being plain wrong more than 50% of the time. I sometimes end up fighting with people on the phone because I know what part needs to be replaced better than they do, but they insist on ordering the wrong ones.
Switching vendors? Sure, that might eventually happen, but the whole infrastructure currently is HP, when all the people are trained to HP's hardware, to their software, that would cost a whole lot. So our only recourse now is applying penalties to them when they fail to deliver to the terms of the support contracts.
As far as I'm concerned, HP can die. Their abysmal quality of support has costed me too many hours of sleep (among other things).
Provide an option for customers to be able to opt put of having their data seen by anyone outside of the EU. This would shut down outsourcing overnight.
Yes indeed my friend, although I would respectfully propose to make the default setting "opt out of outsourcing".
As a prospective HP client I could then be offered the option to opt IN to the 'deliberate outsourcing of my personal and private data to an effectively unregulated and/or unknown foreign location where MY first language is the operators third'. Obviously I would expect there to be a reduction in the level of service available to me but, inextricably linked to that, I should also see an improved financial incentive resulting from this deft avoidance of current UK legislation, safety requirements, insurances, human rights issues, basic living standards, minimum working hours (and indeed age) etc... and since it is ME who will be expected to endure the reduced service and only MY data being put at risk, it should be ME (and ME ALONE) who receives any and all benefits that result from opting in.
End of.
It's not just central government, Birmingham City Council wants to be the first local council to move 100 IT jobs to India -
In this case there will be no savings for the taxpayer a because the company that runs these services is a Joint Venture with Capita, the jobs have already been outsourced, it'll just mean more profit for Capita
If this goes ahead more jobs will follow..
I guess if that is what this department does, then they will be successful. For they found work for some Indian chaps, and now some of your British folks can see if their pension works out well, also.
My apologies for sounding callous here, but I am only acknowledging that your country and mine (USA) have fallen victim to elected officials being in power and making decisions which are not in the best interest of the people whom they are charged with serving. So sad.
indivudual expectation
vs actual outpt
vs non sustainable idiotic social system
don't worry though the chinese and indian sources are starting to buy property now so....
"at the expense of cash in hand we are giving away our land"


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This was the second installment of "Sound Magazine" that focused on volunteer recruitment and more are planned for the future.
It offered me the opportunity to talk about being a kid who "ran to the curb" whenever I heard a fire siren and all of the great things that come with being a volunteer firefighter.
The following article is a reprint from the June-2009 edition of Fire-Rescue magazine. It is also a companion piece to my blog titled: Clean the Litterbox.
I recently attended a seminar on preparation for line-of-duty deaths and firefighter funerals. If you've ever read one of my blogs here or at FirefighterNation.com, you know that I have very strong feelings about firefighter deaths.
But, for the first time, the subject really hit home with me. While it's important to plan that stuff, if we really think about it, doesn't the need for proper funeral planning only further acknowledge our acceptance of failure in protecting our own from the risks we face?
Too often we focus more time, energy and attention on those types of activities instead of the things
"Early on in my fire service career, we responded to a report of a tractor-trailer rolled over on a nearby state highway. We arrived on scene and found a truck lying on its passenger side. The wheels were facing the roadway and the top of the cab was on the shoulder of the road. The truck driver was being treated as walking wounded. It seemed like a relatively benign accident.
As we approached the curb side we realized that this was no ordinary call. It
Fortune Tellers:
In my last blog titled "Dig In." I talked about the importance of story telling in the fire service and how it serves as a means of sharing experiences, traditions and values from generation to generation. In this article I try to tell a story, and in that story, I hope you can find a lesson to share for generations to come.
Almost every firefighter I meet speaks of how they always knew, from the time they
As I travel around the country talking with other firefighters, a commonly recurring theme of our chat is the future of the volunteer fire service.
The conversation always comes around to the topic of today's firefighters and the next generation of firefighters. Some "more experienced" firefighters (notice I didn't use the term older) share that they don't understand the "kids" coming into the fire service today.
The veterans don't think today's recruits share the same values as those who are currently leading us. And they certainly don't have the same appreciation for the traditions and discipline of the fire service. Community service is not in their blood as it is in ours. Or at least that's their complaint.
The first question I
This blog is a companion piece to my article titled "Make it Personal†featured in the June edition of Fire-Rescue Magazine. I was reading a not so tongue-in-cheek blog onFirefighterNation.com written by my good friend Art Goodrich titled: Ordering From the Risk Menu and it reminded me of a Saturday I spent recently, full of fire […]
Joining on the heels of the recent well-attended presentation for Suffolk County, fire departments in three more New York State Counties have recently signed up for Tiger Schmittendorf's "Leadership in the Firehouse" seminar series.
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Continental Flight 3407 crashed into a home in Clarence Center around 10:20pm on Thursday-February 12, 2009 – killing 50 people and changing the lives of thousands more, including mine.
I responded in the first wave of emergency services personnel sent to help restore order to the chaos that the crash created.


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I heard some feedback from one of my Tarot people from a session recently. She's looking to perform and has to fight perfectionism. Her task was reconnecting with the love, the passion in her performance. Evidently, she was able to do so spectacularly, to the point it moved everyone who witnessed it.
That was what prompted me to say this:
When you put your whole heart & soul into something you love, it has incredible transformational power, for you and the witnesses.
— goddess_dix (@goddess_dix) June 1, 2013
Noticing a theme? At least this is upright. That's always a bit of relief, when we're talking the Lovers and their kin. Has the honeymoon commenced? Or maybe it's recommenced. Because love is in the air!
This card can speak to a romance, of course. But it could really be any type of love. In this particular rendition, I'd be especially mindful of reconnecting with a previously discarded passion of any sort. You may be able to pick up right where you left off. And that reconnection is POWERFUL, not just for you. But for those who are touched by the strength of your passion.
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10 Dogs Wearing Bow Ties To Make Your Day
If there is anything we like more than dogs on their own, it's dressing them up in formal wear. It's just so darn cute we can't stand it! So check out some of these photos from Tumblr of dogs decked out in some killer bow ties. Best in show indeed.


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In addition to Give Kids a Smile Day, the dental clinic participates in events during the month of February in recognition of Children's Dental Health Month. The dentists speak to school, parenting and church groups and other organizations within the community to advocate for proper oral health care and wellness.
Individuals interested in receiving free dental services through the Give Kids A Smile program should be 18 years or younger and need to have a parent or legal guardian accompany them. Appointments are necessary and can be made by calling (952) 431-5774. Scheduling a presentation for a classroom or youth group may also be arranged by calling this number.


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The promised PS4 patch for Battlefield 4 has been released, addressing some stability and balancing issues, DICE has announced.
In order to receive the update you may need to restart the game.
Jan 14 PS4 Game Update Notes:
-Various fixes for improving general stability
-Fixed flickering in map and minimap on Rouge Transmission and Operation Locker
-Fixed issue with player spawning under the map in Lancang Dam
-Increased damage by 25% for the Stealth Jet 20mm cannons
-Normalized repair rates across all vehicles. Vehicles with lower health points, like aircraft and transport vehicles, now repair more slowly than before
-Fixed a bug where the M1 Abrams Coaxial HMG ammo box was occasionally blocking the driver's camera
-Fix for friendly marker not always showing when needed to, resulting in players shooting team members
-Fixed problem with killer health in kill card not being correctly updated (showing 100% health even though the soldier was hurt)
-EU Players: Fixed bug where game wouldn't start when when the console was running in any of these languages: Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Czech, Brazilian Portuguese
-Fix for bug where it looked like soldier was dying with 1 health instead of 0
-Fixed a player feedback timing issue where blood was appearing before other damage indicators, and before damage was actually done
There's no word on when a game update will be released for Xbox One. The PS4 patch follows the release of a new PC update.
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Special Olympics Pennsylvania, Carbon County Chapter, is in need of volunteers for its 6th annual Bowling Competition.
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Volunteer arrival is at 11:30 a.m., while athlete registration is at 12:40 p.m. Competition will begin promptly at 1 p.m.


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Friday, May 25, 2012
Sonos Snags Ex-RIM Sales Chief
Santa Barbara-based Sonos, the user-friendly developer of whole-home music and sound systems, has apparently snagged a new, high profile sales chief--the former Executive Vice President of Global Sales of Research In Motion, the maker of the Blackberry smartphone. According to multiple reports, Patrick Spence, who recently resigned from RIM, is taking the Chief Commercial Officer post at Sonos. The move was first reported by Reuters, which cited multiple sources with "knowledge of his plans". Sonos develops very user-friendly, multi-room sound systems which can be controlled by an Android smartphone, iPhone, or iPad or its own controllers, and also can stream music from either a PC or the Internet.


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For weeks, months, and even years, San Diego State head coach Steve Fisher has courted recruits and their parents.
And for weeks, months, and even years, most of them generally have the same questions for the 66-year-old head coach:
"'How long are you going to be here?'" Fisher said. "'Will you be here to coach my son?'"
Fisher's never really had an answer for them, and he's certainly never been able to tell them who his successor would be. And other college coaches took advantage.
They would tell Fisher's recruits, "'You don't want to go to a place where you don't know who you're going to play for,'" Fisher said.
Click Here to view this Link.His assistant coach Brian Dutcher heard the negative comments from other coaches to his recruits as well.
"People would say, 'He's going to retire, he's going to retire,'" Dutcher said. "No matter how much coach would say."
So Fisher and Dutcher did something about it. They approached SDSU athletic director Jim Sterk and came up with the idea of a contract extension for Fisher, and a "Head Coach-in-Waiting" title for Dutcher. They had the deal all but wrapped up around May, when they were recruiting transfers Dwayne Polee and J.J. O'Brien, and they began selling the coaching staff's future to those recruits.
"Coach says, 'Hey listen, I'm going to be here, but also your next coach is sitting here right next to me,'" Dutcher said. "I think it gave the parents and the recruits a sense of continuity. They knew that there would be a seamless transition to the program and I think it gave them comfort."
Apparently, it worked for O'Brien and Polee, who committed to SDSU in late May / early June, and even 2012 commit Matt Shrigley, who chose SDSU just a few days after O'Brien and Polee did.
"We have told recruits, 'Not only will I be there, but you'll also know when I'm not there who the head coach will be,'" Fisher said. "And that's probably better than 99.9 percent of the schools in the country can say."
Fisher's new deal runs through the 2014-15 season, although he can retire before that if he wants. He also has the ability to ask for an extension after that year as well. And when he eventually does hang it up, whether that's in four years or 10, Dutcher will become the new head coach.
"People in this business will try to create doubt in the recruits' minds anyway they can," Dutcher said. "And so the way to create doubt is, 'Fisher is going to coach two years and your son is going to be there for four years. What's going to happen if he leaves in two?'
"And so now coach can say, 'I can coach whenever I want, whether it's four years, six years or eight years and I know who our new head coach is going to be.' So that should help with our recruiting efforts."
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According to Associated Press writer Bernie Wilson, Fisher will get a $150,000 raise to $800,000 this upcoming season. … Fisher said Dutcher had more than 20 opportunities to interview or inquire about another job elsewhere in the last 20 years, but has always ignored them to stay with Fisher. … Fisher said he doesn't know when he will retire and even said there might be another contract extension after this one. … Dutcher said the reason he never left Fisher's side was because "To draw me away from this, it had to be something spectacular." He later said his "dream job" was coaching at SDSU.


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Is there a cap on a FICO score with BK reporting? What is the highest I can expect my score to get to after filing in 2006? Thank you
I have heard of those getting 720 or so with BK reporting on their credit report.
Huh.... That sucks. When my utilization was at 5% a couple of months ago my TU score was 718 and my EQ was 704. So if around 720 is the cap then I don't have much to look forward to.
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My husband's FICOs (that we paid for on myfico.com) were 722 (TU) and 716 (EQ) last month. Our BK was discharged 12/07.
From what I have learned, Fico scoring also places people in different scoring buckets/groups, these buckets use different scoring formulas and they vary by group. Unfortunately those of us who are in the BK bucket have a maximum of where we can reach with our scores. A BK has a huge impact on our credit scores. If we are using tools from myfico like the score estrimators and focus on the "reasons for XXX Fico" message we receive, it is a little bit misleading because they are programmed as though we do not have a BK. Lets look on the bright side, wtih diligent work we can strive to get the best scores that are available to us in the BK bucket. Once the BK drops of our credit we will then be placed in a bucket of those who don't have BKs and we can see huge jumps on our credit scores.
My TU score was about 730 in May. I haven't checked it in a while ( I got it after I was approved for my Barclay card) so I'm not sure where I am now. My BK was discharged in 2008
There are reports of people in the high 700s with a BK reporting. Just keep keeping on.
My TU is 723.
BK discharged 3 years almost to the day.
TU just pulled on MyFICO is 728, about the only thing I could improve would be to take inquires to zero and improve AAOA.
Mt BK is also coming up on three years from discharge.
I think the highest I've read was either 740 or 760. I've also read anything over 760 is gravy,,,
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Elma Bustronic's 6U VPX Load Board comes in a conduction-cooled format, offers microcontroller-based stepped load control to 100 W maximum.
Elma Bustronic Corporation, an industry leading designer and manufacturer of high performance backplanes produces the 6U VPX Load Board in a conduction-cooled format. The board is designed per the IEEE standard 1101.2 mechanical format.
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Underwood, who joined the U.S. Air Force in 1969, was stationed at Norton AFB, 63rd Military Airlift Wing, flying the C-141 as an aircraft commander, instructor pilot and flight examiner.
For 18 years, he served at bases around the world, including Oklahoma, Asia and Hawaii.
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New research published in The Lancet reports that 1 in 14 women (7.2%) have been sexually assaulted at least once in their lives by someone other than an intimate partner.
Several recent highly publicized incidences of the rape and murder of young women in India and South Africa have put an international focus on the issue of sexual violence against women. These are extreme cases, but the authors of the report warn that "although it is tempting to view these events as isolated, they should be seen as part of a larger, daily reality of sexual violence against women."
The historical and media perception of rape has largely focused on the idea of sexual assault as a crime committed by strangers. In truth, the research over the past decade into "intimate-partner violence" has highlighted that a large proportion of sexual violence occurs within relationships.
Intimate-partner violence often finds expression in long-term controlling behavior and could cause significant psychological problems, whereas "non-partner sexual violence" is likely to be more violent and involve weapons or injury, according to a World Health Organization study.
"Irrespective of whether sexual violence is perpetrated by partners or non-partners, it is generally traumatic for the victim," the authors remind, "although the pattern, degree, and effect of violence might differ dependent on the perpetrator."
Understanding prevalence: first step to developing effective response
The authors believe improved understanding of prevalence across different countries and regions is "a fundamental first step in the development of effective responses to non-partner sexual violence." But the global extent of sexual violence has been difficult to measure.
With this study, the authors conducted a systematic review of the available evidence on non-partner sexual violence in order to estimate prevalence.
The researchers looked at 77 studies from 56 countries conducted between 1998 and 2011, which compiled data on sexual assaults against women aged 15 years and older. The results of the systematic review displayed a wide variation in estimates of sexual violence across regions.
Estimates of sexual violence vary wildly across regions
The regions with the highest estimates of sexual violence were:
- Central sub-Saharan Africa (21%; Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Southern sub-Saharan Africa (17.4%; Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)
- Australasia (16.4%; New Zealand and Australia).
The regions with the lowest estimates of sexual violence were:
- North Africa/Middle East (4.5%; Turkey)
- South Asia (3.3%; India, Bangladesh).
The systematic review found that, worldwide, 1 in 14 or 7.2% of women older than 15 years had reported ever experiencing non-partner sexual violence. This shows that sexual violence is widespread and - in some regions - endemic. In four regions the prevalence rate was higher than 15%.
Stigma associated with sexual violence leads to under-reporting
The authors think their data probably underestimates the prevalence of sexual violence. This is because the stigma and blame attached to sexual violence is known to lead to under-reporting. The researchers think this might be why eight regions in the study only had data from one country and many countries had no data at all.
"Despite the limitations of the existing data," say the authors in their conclusion, "we found that sexual violence is a common experience for women. Sexual violence, irrespective of the perpetrator, violates the human rights of victims and has a profound and enduring effect on their lives."
Previous systematic reviews examining the health consequences of non-partner sexual violence have found associations with depression, anxiety and alcohol abuse. Victims of sexual violence also show an increased risk for later exposure to other kinds of violence.
Kathryn Yount, from Emory University, Atlanta, GA, describes the study as "a landmark in its scale and rigor," adding that the prevalences estimated by the study are "unacceptably high on public health and human rights grounds."
She hopes that the study will:
"[...] spur timely and systematic discussions about the use of standard definitions and improved research tools and data collection methods to improve disclosure of a highly stigmatized violation.
The data confirm that non-partner sexual violence is neither rare nor geographically isolated and, thus, that existing laws and systems of accountability remain inadequate. Effective responses will require widespread legal and institutional change."
In 2013, Medical News Today reported on a study suggesting that nearly 10% of youths have instigated sexual violence.


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We are all money conscious, no matter our life situation. And when you have a baby, there is one thing after another that are on the "baby necessities" list. And THEN there are the things that we just want to buy!
So whenever I find a deal, I want to share it with all the other moms out there. I mean, it's like HugaMonkey -- the price is right, free shipping, lots of colors, free returns -- It's just so exciting when you find something you need and it's the right price.
For instance, I totally wanted a Petunia Pickle Bottom diaper bag. Hooray for PPB Outlet sales! (Psst: there is one going on now.) I really wanted a new stroller, so I waltzed in to Babies R Us and used a 20% off coupon. I was looking the best diaper prices, and then there was Amazon Mom. I wanted a nice thermometer, but didn't want to spend a fortune. Thank heavens for other products from HugaMonkey.
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Finding things, such as baby carriers, on sale can be a huge asset or a waste of savings. There are many reasons why baby carriers and other baby items are on sale, and not all of them are straightforward. As you search the sales racks in stores and online, consider these five things before you buy.
Check safety ratings. The first thing you want to consider for baby carriers on sale and anything that is used for your baby are the safety ratings. Convenience is terrific, but if your baby isn't going to be safe, it's just not worth it. Check the US Consumer Product Safety Commission for a list of recalls.
Read customer reviews. If a product has more bad reviews than good by customers who have used them, you may not want that particular product. Read the reviews and consider the things that customers are saying.
Make sure it's well made. Even if a product isn't on the recall list or has good reviews, take a look at how it's made and what materials it uses. If it has terrific baby-holding materials, but plastic breakable wheels, snaps, or buckles, you may be throwing your money away.
Weigh what you need against the price. A good price doesn't always mean you need all the bells and whistles a baby carrier on sale has. Gauge what you know you'll need against what is being offered. If the additions seem like they'll help, all the better. If they don't, you may end up finding it more trouble than it's worth.
There's nothing like a good sale. Unfortunately, not everything that's on sale is worth buying. As you're perusing baby carriers on sale, take the time to do some research.
Check the baby carrier safety rating. There are some baby carriers out there that have disturbing safety ratings. And there are others that have stellar ratings. Make sure you double check the ratings at Consumer Product Safety Commission http://cpsc.gov/. New information is revealed all the time and not all of it makes the headline news.
Check reviews from users. Sites like Parents.com and the like have open forums and active comments from parents that are using and have used many of the baby carriers on sale you are finding. Keep in mind that these are individuals who may not have the same expectations or requirements that you do, but consider what they say. If something throws up a red flag for you, or a green flag, these consumer reviews can be helpful.
Check its personal functionality. Along with the reviews, you have to take in all you can - videos, comments, imagination - and determine how the baby carrier on sale will function for you. If it looks like it may be too involved or complicated, it's probably not for you. If you're confused by how it looks, you're not likely to enjoy it.
Sales are only as good as their products, and while it's exciting to find a great sale, you still want quality with the products regardless of price.
Baby carrier slings by HugaMonkey are not only durable, safe, and comfortable, they are available at an unbelievable price!
Why buy baby slings? A simple question with a simple answer. Baby slings provide a million and one (okay, maybe not quite that many) pros without any cons (at least that we can think of).
What is a baby sling? We've got a pretty simple answer for that one - you can't stump us. A baby sling is a type of carrier that lets you carry baby essentially in your arms next to your body while keeping your hands free. Oops. We're jumping the gun with our list of pros and cons. But since you've got the idea, we'll keep going with the pros.
For starters, how do you like the idea of baby crying less? Can anything make baby cry less? The answer is a definitive yes. And honestly, it makes a lot of sense. When baby is cuddled up in a baby sling close to mom or dad, what in the world could there be to cry about? Oh, right. Maybe being hungry or a messy diaper, but overall, that's a lot less crying than otherwise.
And speaking of all that being cuddled up close, research has shown physical contact is super important for baby's development. When babies are first discovering the world and trying to communicate with mom and dad, they do it through touch. A baby sling keeps baby in constant physical communication and helps in that process of discovery and growth.


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We are!
Well, maybe not ALL fifth graders, but I'm sure at least A fifth grader.
Like, one who skipped first grade or something.
Like me! (I was too
tall smart.)
Anyway, DreamHost is TEN YEARS OLD!!!
Domain Name: DREAMHOST.COM Registrar: NEW DREAM NETWORK, LLC Whois Server: whois.dreamhost.com Referral URL: https://www.dreamhost.com Name Server: NS1.DREAMHOST.COM Name Server: NS2.DREAMHOST.COM Name Server: NS3.DREAMHOST.COM Status: ok Updated Date: 21-sep-2006 Creation Date: 23-sep-1997 Expiration Date: 22-sep-2013
In dog years, that's SEVENTY!
In Internet years, that's ONE THOUSAND!
In waiting-for-tech-support-to-get-back-to-you years, that's INFINITY!
To celebrate, I'm doing this super-long blog post retrospective… and if you read the whole thing, you might feel a little less let down about the announcement I mentioned last post just being a freaking birthday announcement.
Stupid Beginnings: Pre-DreamHost
Man, I was just looking through some old emails from 1997, and one thing I can say is, boy, were we dumb!
It's nice to know some things never change.
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 15:06:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Josh "Evening Optimist" Jones
To: Honchos
Subject: Plan?
Maybe we should piece together a mission statement or guidelines for
business or goals or something. Maybe we should also come up with some
different plans for pricing web hosting. Like some amount for a small
business site (at most 500 hits a day or so) and some amount for a large
site, with a discount if we were the ones who made the site. All should
probably have 20megs of space, with $5 per 10 more or so (I'm of course
wide open to specific price suggestions, these are just round numbers).
Maybe $30 for a small, $45 for a large, plus maybe $5 more per some number
of hits. Also more if they have a domain name. If we made their site
though, how about $15 off the base price?
Anyway, I was thinking we need some reason that people would want
to use us instead of our competitors. Why would they now? We are good at
design and graphics and programming, but honestly there are plenty of
places that are good at that. We have to be something others aren't. Like:
quicker at getting the job done, better sites, cheaper sites, or maybe
even something like better customer service or even more advertising. The
reason I thought that low price would be a good way to go is because we
have an advantage over most other places in that. We aren't actualy
dependent on this (at least not _yet_) whereas others are. I don't think
we have an advantage in speed, especially since we are all full time
students. We are good at design but it's hard to sell people on our sites
being the highest quality I think. I can imagine some people really liking
our work and other people not so much, there is a lot of personal taste
involved. Another thing which I guess is sort of obvious is that it would
be good to get some large sites that we need to change a lot and sort of
constantly maintain and add things to, because we can keep charging for
that. Like when we get a job, we should outline clearly what is included
in the setup, and additional things (like more pictures, etc..) are
clearly going to cost more later. Okay thats it. I would have written this
earlier, but my connection was flakey yesterday.
But wait, isn't that email dated January 1997?! We didn't register dreamhost.com until September! What oh what were we doing in the meantime?
The thing is, the actual company over here is really called "New Dream Network" .. and the goal was never (and still isn't!) to be a web host. We did some web hosting on the side to try and cover the network we were stealing from a friend, but we generally didn't want it to ever get too big.
Buuuuuut, once we started actually raking in the dough, that mentality changed quick. Let me give you an idea of how much dough there was to be raked back when we decided to get serious and get an actual domain name..
07.29.97 pillar Pillar Communications $20.00
07.31.97 pinzler Andrew Pinzler $48.00
07.31.97 jbark Joseph Bark $46.00
08.06.97 tim Timnet $126.00
08.12.97 threnody Cheryl Dowling $136.00 VOID
08.12.97 jhb5 Vickee Sepich $46.00
Here's an interesting little exchange I found too… the origins of the DreamHost name:
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 14:06:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Dallas Bethune
To: Honchos
Subject: Re: everyhost.com
I just discovered that dreamhost.com is not taken!
We could snatch it up! What do you think?
I'm making an ad for hosting right now, BTW…
> > Hey what do you guys think of everyhost.com? We could make it our mission
> > to make having a website with a domain name easy and affordable for
> > everyone from private citizens to small to large businesses. Therefore..
> > everyhost.com (it's not taken). Also Dallas, are front page extensions
> > still installed somewhere? I'm going to take advantage of the beta status
> > of FP98 to download it and see if we can get our server to work with their
> > extensions. It would be good to put at least on our hosting server once we
> > get it.
> >Josh
> I'm not that taken by everyhost.com. I don't think I would personally want
> to have my site there. It would be fine if we were trying to focus on
> sites with their own domains, though.
> I believe I deleted the FrontPage stuff. We never got it working right,
> and were low on space at some point.
> I'd almost rather not have FrontPage going on our servers. It seems kinda
> neat, but I'm still worried about what access to our server that it seems
> to require…
> ->Dallas
Ha, EveryHost! Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
I do feel somewhat vindicated that everyhost.com was snatched up less than two years later!
(One thing sort of funny is… we were assuming most people would be getting sub-domains of our main domain. Dallas was saying that he wouldn't want dallas.everyhost.com as much as dallas.dreamhost.com! Of course "It would be fine if we were trying to focus on sites with their own domains, though.")
A Nightmare is Born
Woooooheeee! Thanks the Wayback Machine I've been able to find and recreate the entire history of DreamHost.com and lay it out for you here, complete with what I think are the most interesting points in each design! Unending boredom awaits..
This was our first design!
Designed by Dustin Vannatter, New Dream Member extraordinaire, I'll always hold a special place in my heart for this one!
Back then, we actually had specifically an "adult site hosting" plan.. it was $99.95/month and, like all our plans, included unlimited bandwidth! As unlimited as half a T1 can be! It came with 100MB per 5GB of transfer you used, which was really weird in retrospect.
We also had our Crazy Domain Insane plan for $9.95/month with 20MB of storage, Archive Boy for $17.95/month with 40MB, Code Warrior (we hadn't gotten that Cease and Desist from Metrowerks yet!) for $23.95/month with 50MB and a telnet user and CGI access, and Strictly Business for $44.95/month with 100MB of storage along with 20 email addresses and anonymous FTP!
It turned out, that Adult Site hosting plan with unlimited bandwidth was the only thing that kept us solvent those early months. As soon as we put that "too good to be true" offer up there, we started getting deluged (as in, multiple PER WEEK!) with signups for it! And these were big customers too.. $100/month!
It took about a week before we realized that unlimited bandwidth plus adult content equals not good. Some of these people were using over a GB a day of transfer.. and according to an early email from michael, we needed to be making $200/GB to stay afloat! We immediately had to re-negotiate with some of those early adopters.. one guy began paying $700/month, and others left.
We did learn an important lesson though, and that was that some of those $100/month adult sites used hardly ANY bandwidth at all! And thus, the truth about overselling was realized!
(Ha, if you thought having a dedicated adult hosting plan was crazy, before dreamhost.com launched we had a dedicated warez hosting plan!)
We also had "colocation" options back then:
For $995/month you got 50GB bandwidth, 64MB RAM, a 3GB SCSI drive, on a Pentium 200Mhz!
For $3000/month you got a PII 400Mhz, 256MB RAM, two 9GB SCSIs and 300GB of bandwidth!
The deals would have been a little sweeter if I'd had my way though…
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 11:35:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Dallas Bethune
To: Honchos
Subject: dreamhost.com site
I looked at it…
I'm alarmed by the colocate page.
How do you think we're going to offer
200MHZ Pentium II
4.2 GB drive
Full Debian Linux Distribution
Only $300 setup
$300 a month.
At this ridiculously low prices?
We're trying to make money…!
The offer I was talking about would be a 100 MHz Pentium with 16MB Ram and
2 gig drive for $1500 setup and $500/mnth
That price is even low…
Also, I'd rather not give everybody full CGI access that is a client of a
reseller. That would be a good way to open ourselves up for a lot of
attacks from people we don't even really know at all. I think we should
develop a set of cgi scripts that most people would want to cover people's
want or need for CGI without opening the server up. We can't afford to
get new hardware too often…
I also feel especially unsure about granting full CGI to people with warez
pages. They would be the ones most likely to try to cause trouble,
right? (maybe I'm just getting old)
Most people don't need cgi except for little things. If we can provide
those things, we can secure ourselves from big programs that use up the
processor or what not. I'm paranoid.
I think we may have to discuss our prices overall, as well. We are way
lower than a lot of places. This helps us get business, but we may need
to reassess our costs, and our income, and all that.
Yeah, early on you got ONE mailbox, ONE hosted domain, ONE ftp user, and NO cgi access unless you were at least on Code Warrior.. and you liked it! Not to mention domain registrations were $70/year from Network Solutions (and only Network Solutions!)
From the very beginning we had a "reseller program" (you'd get 20% off) and in November 1998 I started the monthly newsletter. Oh yay.
So yep, that was it, one server, four honchos, and $200 in the bank.
Two Years Pass: September 1999
First thing I noticed on this redesign.. our 1-888-261-4484 is nowhere to be found! I must have gotten tired of all those voicemails setting off my pager. Good riddance to phone support! It wouldn't return (in the form of callbacks) for three years.
By our two year birthday, DreamHost has grown from the four honchos to 19 people.. and gone from no profit to profit to no profit again, thanks in large part to Sage's WebRing millions!
We'd dropped the unlimited bandwidth, but added some "extra options" at this point: get an extra ftp username for $5/month, and extra mailbox for $2/month, and extra storage for $5 per 10MB!
We've dropped the adult plan, added a domain parking plan for $30/year .. NOT including registration (but refunded if you upgraded to full hosting!), renamed "colocation" to "dedicated" (after all, we still don't have our very own data center!), started offering squirrel mail webmail, and were giving away a free iBook! This was back when people used to read books!
We later had a lot of other giveaway contests.. DreamCasts, Handspring Visors, Game Boy Advances, and even, on the launch of "DH2", a PS2!
DreamHost 2: September 2000
Pretty much since I graduated from college in May of 1998, we'd been working on "the future of webhosting." We were going to call it "DreamHost 2000" in the theme of "Windows 2000", but by the time we actually got it out and done, the year 2000 didn't really seem like the future anymore, so it was just "DreamHost 2.0."
What did DH 2 bring?
Well, mostly the panel as you more-or-less know it today. We also had a system that should have pretty much seamlessly scaled from 3 or 4 servers to 3 or 4 thousand. And I guess it more-or-less did.
We also started doing our "own" domain registrations (through register.com, then joker, then tucows, and finally, many years later, our own ICANN account!) for $30/year.
We dropped the "Archive Boy" plan and created "Sweet Dreams" and upped our storage offerings to 30/75/150/250MB, our bandwidth to 2/4/7/12GB a month, and our mailboxes included to 3/10/20/40!
We also raised our prices to $10/$20/$35/$60 per month and added more extras: discussion lists for $10/month each, SSL access (not including a cert) for $20/month, extra MySQL DBs for $7/month each, and extra bandwidth for the rock-bottom-remainder price of $15/GB!
We also didn't include any sub-domains on Crazy Domain Insane back then.. or even CGI access! We did however have an official logo! And 31 employees though.
Promo Codes, DreamServers, and Disaster: September 2001
September 2001: did you forget that American flags weren't just in meatspace? We got on the bandwagon ourselves.
Witness, the humble beginning of promo codes… originally a way for us to give college students a discount! We also started giving away a free registration with hosting, and had a domain checker right on the front page. We created the KBase and launched DreamServers; starting at only $395/month now.. for 40GB of bandwidth, a 10GB disk, and a 600Mhz Celeron with 128MB RAM!
We were now hosting 29,380 domains! And.. we went crazy and way upped disk to 60/300/600/1000MB, and bandwidth a smidge to 2/5/10/30GB, and dropped pricing for overage to $15/$10/$10/$5 per GB.
Even crazier… on the front page, a huge form where you could specify how much of each feature you wanted and how much you were willing to pay, and we would "recommend" a plan for you! The actual point of this feature was market research though.. after months of data collection I would go back through and decide how to best update our plans to maximize revenues!
At this point we had gone through our own little mini dot-bomb.. our head count was only 28 since we decided to stop borrowing money from Sage! Fortunately, our stock art head count had tripled in the same period.
Rapid Growth: We Turn Five!
Really, we started growing faster a little bit before this completely sweet redesign. It started when I analyzed all those "recommendation" requests and realized we really should just be giving more away on our cheapest plan. Sure, less people are "up-sold" on our more expensive plans, but really, those people were just going to our competitors.
So, we gave CGI on CDI, upped our disk to 100/400/900/1500MB, our bandwidth to 2/10/20/30GB, our mailboxes to 20/60/140/300, and gave away unlimited MySQL databases on all plans… I believe an industry first? Oh ho ho!
Of course, we did put a limit on the database usage you could have… the short lived "conueries" metric! 25 times your connections plus your queries! And you got 10M "conueries" per month on CDI!
But still, the redesign was nice too.. we did it thanks to the prodding of a PR company we hired for the still-ridiculous price of $10,000 a month. The biggest thing we learned from that was how easy PR is.. in fact, they even told us they couldn't have done our press releases (they made us do) any better.
With the fifth birthday, we renamed Code Warrior to Code Monster, upped disk space another 50MB each (of course, all old customers got it as well!), and jumped bandwidth up to 20/25/30/40GB a month. DreamServers was now just DreamHost Dedicated (too many brands the PR company said!), and for $199/mo you got a 1.6Ghz P4, 256MB of RAM, a 30GB drive, and 75GB of bandwidth!
Another critical thing we started here was the ability to cash out your rewards (10% of all payments for people you referred, plus 5% of people they referred), instead of just applying it towards your hosting bill. That was a pretty big deal for our burgeoning affiliate crowd!
We were down to just 24 employees, and $300,000 in the bank!
The Sale Era: September 2003 and 2004
A lot of you reading this probably trace your history with DreamHost back to this period.
Although 777 on our 7th birthday was the culmination, the beginning was actually back on our sixth birthday, in September 2003, while I was actually in Hawaii at a friend's wedding.
We decided to try, as a lark almost, giving our Strictly Business plan (1.6GB of storage and 40GB of bandwidth plus every other feature) for the price of Crazy Domain Insane, forever.
At that time, we were peaking at about 30 new customers a day. I thought, optimistically, the sale would give us a 50% bump.
The day I turned it on (from Hawaii), we got 300 new customers. The next day, 600! The third day, at which point everbody was screaming for me to turn it off, 1200! In a period of 3 days, we'd provisioned as many accounts as we usually got in 3 months.
It was a hectic time, fo' sure. The support team hated it. Fortunately, they're not in charge!
As a result of the incredible demand we witnessed, I was able to convince everybody to allow me to up our offerings a few months later to 500/1000/1600/2300MB of disk and a bit more bandwidth too. We also dropped the price of Code Monster to Sweet Dreams "temporarily."
The next year, we did essentially the same thing, except we tried just making our cheapest plan SUPER CHEAP.. the 777 sale allowed you to get a year of CDI for just $9.24! Are we Crazy? Insane? Domain?
At that point we'd also already upped disk to 800/1600/2560/3680MB doubled bandwidth to 40/48/64/88GB (and dropped overage to $4/$3/$2/$1 per GB) as well as tripled the number of included mailboxes. We'd also started giving a 20% discount for pre-paying for two years. Pretty much just so we could say our price was $7.95/month!
We also started offering a 91-day money back guarantee (since 1 and 1 had appeared on the scene offering a 90-day!) and allowed opting for a one-time payment of $65 for referring somebody to DreamHost!
Our dedicated servers had a $99.95/month option with a Pentium 4, 512MB of RAM, a 30GB disk, and 500GB of bandwidth.
We had 23 employees for the entire two year period, had paid Sage off the money we'd borrowed (without much interest, which turned out to still be a pretty good return for 1999-2002), and had a cool mil in the bank!
It Gets a Little Ridiculous: September 2005
So, in January 2005 we decide to triple disk and bandwidth to 2.4/4.8/7.6/11GB and 120/144/192/264GB! We had to, man! It was like all you had to do was up those numbers and you got more money!
In the "Spirit of '97" (not at all because others were offering more, nope!) we upped our rewards payout from $65 to $97, as well as our money back guarantee from 91 days to 97. In March we hit 100,000 domains!
And that's when our power problems began.
I won't get into it tooooooooooo much right here, but our main data center essentially ran out of power over two years ago and is still out today. We immediately stopped selling any new Dedicated Servers (at that point we were adding about one a day). I wasn't too heart-broken because my first love had always been shared!
So never mind all that!
We added Ruby on Rails support shortly thereafter, and this blog got started in July with let's save our environment, truly one of this generation's great folk hits.
We double disk again, and added the feature where your bandwidth and disk grows every week you stay a customer with us… we're still the only host who does this that I know of/care about!
Anyway, the 888 promo code only gave you 80% off, and wasn't nearly as big a deal as 777 (which we'd actually secretly still left working for most of the year!), but we did also up all our plans to finally include unlimited domains and sub-domains, something customers had been asking for for years, which gave us a pretty big boost.
Domain registrations also dropped to $9.95/year and extra bandwidth was now $1-$0.50/GB. We had 30 employees now.. an unsettling trend in my book!
I Just Like This Fat Kid
That was our website in January 2006, when we went completely insane and finally upped our disk FORTY TIMES and our bandwidth TEN TIMES to 20/40/60/90GB and 1/1.2/1.6/2.2TB.
Around now was when we got sick of just losing all those potential dedicated server customers (still no power) and decided to just start linking them over to hosting.com for some affiliate sugar.
Fan Gets Hit With It: September 2006
That summer there's more power outages and we have TWO FULL MONTHS of pretty darn bad service. It was pretty sucky all around.
We did about the only thing we could do.. made a new site all based on "community" and doubled bandwidth and 10 timesed disk again!
At this point we're also giving away 3000/6000/12000/24000 mailboxes and 75/175/375/775 shell accounts. We have a 999 promo code which gives $99.99 off (again, it's no 777!) and take it a little easy.
We've got 300,000 domains, 50 employees and a lot of infrastructure stuff to deal with.
Everything Is Wonderful: September 2007
In January of this year, we took a step back. A step away from everything that's made us who we are, our very essense, and we actually started reducing how much disk and bandwidth we included on our plans.
We had (close to) no promo code sales all year, and never upped those quotas a smidge. It's been very very very painful for me.
Well… sweet release is finally here!
The Payoff
If you've read, or at least scrolled, this far… you deserve something!
And here it is.. for the big One – Oh, DreamHost is now offering only one plan! It's called "Happy Hosting" (though it doesn't really need a name when it's the only one) and it comes with 500GB of disk, 5TB of bandwidth per month, and unlimited users and mailboxes, etc, etc, etc…
Current customers immediately get the unlimited users and mailboxes, and their bandwidth doubled. We're also doubling your existing disk space, but it will be rolled out incrementally. If you want to switch to the new plan, you can today from our panel!
It's $10.95/month, but if you prepay for 1 year it's $9.95/month, 2 years it's $8.95/month, 3 years it's $7.95/month, 5 years it's $6.95/month, and 10 years it's $5.95/month! There may be a crazy 777-ish promo code too (for new customers) if you look around.
Who would pay for ten years in advance?
I dunno, but at least we've finally shown we can do ten years!
Happy Hosting!
P.S. And, when you renew in 2017 you'll (most definitely) be up to 12.5 PB of storage and bandwidth for $1.95/month!


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They don't seem to be enjoying the local shrimp
After taking over the lovely island of Okinawa, Darth Vader and his trusty couple of Storm Trooper have moved their conquests to the hip Japanese city of Sapporo. While experiencing Hoth-like conditions, the Emperor's crew get a bit lost, but make sure to fit some time in for site seeing.
Vader even finds a way to make a big mess on the table, perhaps upset that his life support mask doesn't allow him to drink some delicious hot tea. The whole video series is to promote the reopening of the Tokyo Disneyland Star Tours attraction. I wonder where they'll land their Tie-Fighters next?
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