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06-12-2018 01:04 PM - edited 06-13-2018 09:43 AM
06-12-2018 01:04 PM - edited 06-13-2018 09:43 AM
So 8 hours into troubleshooting on my own I've tried every suggestion I could find, but none of them seem to work. I've tried unplugging and replugging everything into every USB port, 2.0 and 3.0, reinstalling SteamVR, installing SteamVR beta, powercycling, rebooting, repeat all ad nausum.
Some specs:
Some random info:
USBDeview shows the following:
I would like to know what USBDeview is supposed to look like in a working scenario and how it differs from my broken case.
Windows device viewer shows:
Is it normal that it shows a number of "generic superspeed" entries? Why doesn't each entry have a more clear description?
SteamVR usb overview shows:
I've never seen any of the other options activated.
Does anyone have any suggestions left? I'm at my wits end by now.
Solved! Go to Solution.
06-13-2018 09:40 AM - edited 06-13-2018 09:47 AM
06-13-2018 09:40 AM - edited 06-13-2018 09:47 AM
Okay, so further steps I've undertaken, none of which have resulted in a fix.
The store I bought the unit from has a demo unit, and I've taken some pictures from their setup, to have something to compare all of this too. Theirs works. Differences I've noticed in their setup are for example in the report overview. The screenshot below shows their report vs mine. I remember from the USBDeview support page you're supposed to uninstall devices 0BB4 and 28DE, but I never could find the 28DE drivers on my system, which is part of the problem I expect. On my system, he only installs (part of) the 0BB4 drivers and not the 28DE ones. See screenshot.
Another difference I've noticed is in the Devices tab in the report. Mine is just blank, it doesn't show any info. And when I copy that blank information to the clipboard, I notice that the Devices tag is blank. It differes from their system. See the screenshot below.
Another difference is in the USB settings view. Theirs has slightly more info in the description.
So..... what does any of this mean? Is it a driver install issue? How does the driver install work? I'm not an expert on the subject. Are the drivers downloaded from the link box, telling Windows how it wants to be installed? If so, does the link box need a firmware update? Would it be helpful to receive a driver download package from Valve or HTC?
Hope all of this info ends up being useful. I'll keep on fiddling and adding any findings...
Further research yields the following info: the Oculus compatibility check tool also finds some USB problems, as demonstrated in the screenshot below.
Now I know I have a Vive Pro, and this may not be entirely relevant, but I did learn that there seem to be problems with ASUS motherboards, which I have (Z370-P), because they might have ASMedia USB controllers (which I don't have). Apperantly both Vive and Oculus prefer Fresco USB controllers. The warning from this tool may because of the PCI-E card I just bought, or maybe because of motherboard. I don't know for sure and I'm too tired to open my case and unplug the PCI card. This is the support page I got this info from.
I tried download the Intel driver and support assistant installer to check if my system didn't need any kind of weird missing updates, but it didn't find anything.
The VIA USB 3.0 error message did lead me to some Microsoft support page, suggesting to use the Windows DISM program (Deployment Image Servicing and Management Tool) to check if there's some kind of problem with Windows, but that also hasn't yielded anything worthwhile.
This reddit thread suggests further info on compatiblity issues with specific USB controllers and although it's also for Oculus, it may be relevant for the Vive Pro since they recommend the Inatec PCI-E USB card specifically, and as far as I understand, that's a Fresco controller card as well.
06-13-2018 03:42 PM - edited 06-13-2018 04:34 PM
06-13-2018 03:42 PM - edited 06-13-2018 04:34 PM
Thank you for posting such detailed troubleshooting reports. I think I have a potential solution for your unique case. I'm PMing you with further instructions.
Thank you!
-John C
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Just checking. Do you happen to have any internatinal char in your account name? If you have international char like special characters , try re-create an user account with English only.
06-14-2018 06:59 AMSolution
Okay guys, I figured out what the problem was: the link box was broken. Here's how I know for sure.
I went to the store and tested my link box and Vive Pro on their working system. We uninstalled the drivers before connecting my hardware, and their system installed the drivers the wrong way, just like on my system.
We then uninstalled the drivers again and connected my cables, my Vive Pro, but their link box, and behold: everything installed correctly. We solved the problem by giving me a different link box. It now works on my home system and saw the Steam VR room for the first time!
So before you troubleshoot as much as I do, make sure the hardware is working! Here's how you can tell your link box is working as it should. When Windows starts installing the drivers, it should install (and finish) the following set of drivers:
When you have a broken link box, Windows will only install 1 driver:
Everything else just didn't install.
This solves it! I hope all my research will end up useful for others with similar problems. Thanks for chiming in, those who did.


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I am waiting at home for the roofer to come and give me an estimate for the leaky roof and spewing gutter amelioration. I am trying to squeeze this in before going to work and when he arrives, I show him out to the fire escape. We go up one floor to inspect the gutter, then he scrambles two more flights all the way to top of the house, nimble as a monkey, and when he gestures me to follow him, well, I do. When I get to the top I am considering how to swing my leg from the straight ladder over the parapet, when it hits me. I am wearing heels. Mules, no less, jesus. And a dress. With a slip, yes, but no panties. The breeze four stories off the ground is significant and I realize that the urge to put a hand to my billowing skirts is a nearly irresistible reaction to the cool morning air hitting my rump. I look back over my shoulder, to the cracked concrete of the back yard, a killingly long drop, and know what a fecking idiot I am, because now, with flip floppity shoes and functionally bare-assed, I have to get back down.
The moment when you realize you have imperiled yourself needlessly makes the danger that much greater, for creeping panic can cause worse mistakes than just blithely going forward. This instance on the ladder at the top of my house flashes me back 20 years to Austin, when I found the windy meandering street I was riding on suddenly turned into a highway. And the bad possibilities of Texas highway, underpowered motorcycle, and lack of exoskeleton are nearly endless and nearly always fatal. Today was exactly the same kind of shock. You have simply wandered into a position where you could actually die. Now, find your way out.
I did take a moment to understand the gravity of my situation, explain to the guy that I was not really dressed for climbing and therefore would not be joining him on the roof, then carefully negotiated myself back down the ladders. What this reminds me of most of all, in the spike of fear I felt looking down, is the great, simple desire to live. And, like 20 years ago, I still don't have an exoskeleton. Jackass.

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Do you not feel overwhelmed by the sheer, VAST quantity of digital ephemera that comes at you from every direction? About 99.9 percent of it is pure junk; maybe 1 percent (at the outside…) is something you asked to see and need to review.
I have my mail system set up to divert things I regard as ephemeral into a "Trash" folder, so that I don't see them until I have some time to waste. That includes the 87 berjillion beeps from Facebook, the 37 million "likes" and queries from Quora, whatever Twitter emits, and all known senders of spam. "Spam" IMHO includes newsletters, Goodreads blather, chirpy emails from Realtors, Meetup.com notices, and on and on and infinitely on. Just now MacMail has 71 "rules" for that purpose. The accursed OS update erased all my standing rules; before that little fiasco, I had applied over 90 rules. So presumably in the next short while I'll have to rebuild another 20 of them.
Then there are the people who "Reply-all" to someone who is trying to organize some event and is sending out a dozen or more emails to members. This very morning, a half-dozen people in one group of friends are merrily doing that, so I end up with not one or two messages from the organizer but 6, 12, 18, 24 back-and-forths between her and the participants.
Please. Don't "Reply-all" unless you're asked to do so!
Truly, I think we get far more digital junk mail than we ever got in the snail-mail: it's free and it's easy to disseminate and I guess they don't give a damn how much they annoy people. And indeed, why should they? What are you gonna do, after all? Jump into your transporter and beam yourself up to Seattle and throttle the bastards on the spot?
The nuisance phone calls amount to a variety of digital junk, too. It's just another device to spam you: most of them emanate from digital robocallers equipped to spoof phone numbers and to keep dialing you back until you answer.
The handy-dandy call blocker I bought a while back is helping a lot with the robocall problem, though on average one or two a day are still getting through.
They come in waves. You'll have days — often days on end! — when no spam phone calls get through at all. Then you'll have a bunch at once — I've blocked three of the SOBs today.
So far I've blocked 133 real and spoofed phone numbers. That's on top of the 5,000 blocked numbers the device comes with. It's a little annoying to have to manually block the ones that get through…only because my system has so much hardware wired in that the device has to be set up so that I have to walk to the back of the house, push a button to locate the caller's number, and push another button to block that number forevermore.
On the other hand, it surely is satisfying to hear an incoming call ring once and then die. Sort of like squashing a cockroach…
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David Rutherford has been involved in nearly every aspect of music – from performing to teaching, conducting to broadcasting.
David is in his 8th year as Music Director for Stratus Chamber Orchestra, Colorado's premiere innovative collaborative orchestra. David's vision and ideals of an immersive experience for audience and orchestra within a performance are changing the performance landscape not only in Colorado, but in Europe as well. In the summer of 2017, David led Stratus in a tour of the Czech Republic, where they shared the immersive and inclusive experience with Czech audiences to great delight and acclaim. As a result, the immersive experience will be shared in other places abroad, as far as Calcutta and Australia. An immersive series of concerts is currently being planned in the Czech Republic.
In 2008, David founded and directed a non-traditional chamber orchestra in the Denver area known as UnStaged. It was with this orchestra that he began experimenting with the ideas of innovative and immersive performance practices. David is also an award-winning radio music personality, hosting Sacred Classics as well as being the afternoon voice of Colorado Public Radio Classical. Many of CPR Classical's live broadcasts of the Colorado Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and more are hosted by David. He has interviewed some of the world's greatest artists, composers and conductors, including Robert Spano, Bramwell Tovey, Alan Gilbert, John Eliot Gardiner, Olga Kern, Edgar Meyer, Morten Lauridsen, Eric Whitacre, and the late Marvin Hamlisch.
David is also Music Director of Valor Symphonics Youth Orchestra, for 6 years was a frequent guest conductor and exclusive rehearsal conductor of the Longmont Symphony. He was Director of Orchestral Studies and Music Education and continues to serve as adjunct faculty for Colorado Christian University. He still conducts shows for CCU and Broadway in Boulder, and enjoyed three years as Music Director and Conductor of the Pikes Peak Philharmonic.
As a bassist, David has served as Principal Bass of the Cheyenne Symphony orchestra, as well as Assistant Principal Bass in the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra. He continues to actively freelance along the Front Range.
David is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, with a bachelor's degree in Double Bass Performance and a master's in Music Education with an emphasis in conducting. While at UNC, he played in six orchestras, was principal bass in three of those, and was the first (and to this day, the only) double bassist in the history of the university's music department to have won the annual solo competition. He was also heard as an announcer on KUNC, the local public radio station.
Since then, David has taught public school orchestra programs from the elementary through secondary level in Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho. During his tenure in Wyoming, Rutherford was selected as a National Teacher Fellow at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts/National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. There he studied conducting with Elisabeth Schulze and Barry Jekowsky, then-Associate Conductors of the National Symphony Orchestra, as well as double bass with Bob Oppelt, Principal Bassist of the NSO. His orchestra program was featured on a national broadcast of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.
In 1997, David moved to Idaho Falls, where he founded the Snake River Chamber Orchestra and served as its Music Director for its first four years. In this capacity, Rutherford has worked with such national and international stars as Craig Schulman (Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables), Cris Groenendaal (Phantom), as well as pop/country star Kenny Rogers.
When he is not involved in music and radio, David enjoys spending time in the mountains with his family, hunting, fishing, hiking, berry picking and making the world's best black currant jelly.


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Mondays are hard. Tuesdays can be pretty hard, too, because the "start of week adrenaline rush" that got you through Monday has worn off. Wednesdays are the day when you tip over the top of the mountain and start coasting to the downhill. Right? That's the whole theory behind Hump Day, right? You're over the hump?
Well, regardless of the accuracy of that theory, when Hump Day is also "your Monday," things are hard.
You see, Nightwolf and I had a big weekend. Since I had to cancel a trip home for Gladiolus Festival to go on a whirlwind awesome business trip to California, I penciled in Labor Day Weekend as my "backup plan." And since Nightwolf did not have Labor Weekend Plans, he went home with me.
You read that right: my boyfriend of nearly six months went to my hometown with me. He met my older brothers (which had to be intimidating), my nieces and nephews, several cousins, aunts, uncles, and many friends. It had to be overwhelming, but he was a good sport. We left Friday after he got home from work, spent the night halfway, and arrived Saturday to join my parents' for supper and met up with my best friend and her husband later. On Sunday, we hosted around 50-something guests at my parents' place for a cookout/bonfire/family reunion/extravaganza. Monday, I took him on a whirlwind tour of my hometown before returning my parents' 23-acre riverfront home to relax before the long drive home on Tuesday.
It was a wonderful trip. I saw wonderful people. I was surprised by visits from wonderful friends. And I got to share this special part of my life with a wonderful man. I was surrounded by the love of my wonderful family. Also, we were surrounded by a small pack of wonderful dogs at the party (including several Dachshunds…it's hard not to be happy when you're surrounded by Dachshunds).
You guys, I went to bed at 9 p.m. last night. Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm a night owl and that I typically operate on less-than-ideal amounts of sleep. I was EXHAUSTED.
And today, it was more than your typical mid-week slump. It was a mid-week slump while also trying to recover from vacation, a day and a half out of the office (I took a half-day off on Friday), and easing back into a breakneck pace at work. (By "easing back into" I mean, I attempted to ease, slipped, and did a very ungraceful belly flop.)
It's good to be home, but it's hard to get back into the routine. Life has been so fast-paced lately, and it isn't promising to slow down anytime soon.
Well, as part of an on-going project with Ozarka Natural Spring Water, I'm making the effort to have some feel-good moments this week. I wrote another post about it not too long ago, about my sure-fire strategies for beating mid-week stress. Other folks are sharing their stress-busting mid-week secrets on their Facebook page. If you want to join the conversation, head on over to the Ozarka Natural Spring Water Facebook page.
What am I doing this week to beat the stress? For starters, I put on some stretchy pants because I'm pretty sure I ate my own body weight in comfort food and junk food during the trip home. I had a nice supper, and now, I'm reflecting on the warm joys of that trip home. Nightwolf is a hobby photographer, and he took some breath-taking photos of the trip. I'll be enjoying them. Tonight is devoted to remembering the love and peace I felt during the wonderful trip back to Illinois, even if the break from reality has caused a little stress upon return. I'm also spending part of tonight appreciating my new home, here in Kansas City. This is where I found myself. This is where I belong now.
Oh, and I'll be catching up on guilty pleasure reality TV. In my stretchy pants. Don't forget the stretchy pants.
I hope you enjoy these photos Nightwolf took as much as I do on this evening devoted to feeling good and shaking the stress.
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This is a project I originally started for the urban legends competition at Film Fights. Due to time constraints and whatnot I didn't get started until long after the competition was over, but the idea still remained.
Production Diary:
08/04/2013 – '4' is now finished and available to watch on Youtube!
07/04/2013 – I've finally decided to face the music and pieced together the rest of the footage! Now with all the visual editing done, let the sound editing begin.
27/05 – Unfortunately due to exams and one of the cast leaving the country, we are unable to officially finish '4'. I will try to work with what we've got to create something finished and functional.
23/02 – The camera I used is fairly snazzy for its price, but not snazzy enough to pull of a couple of the shots we tried. This means we're going to have to re-do a couple of scenes, yet on the other hand we've come up with a few new creative things to try near the end of the short.
11/02 – We've finally finished filming! I'm not sure how long it will take to edit, but we're waiting on a musical contribution which might delay it a little bit.
30/01/2012 – After a long hiatus, we've finally started! Managed to get the beginning shot, filming shall resume again on the 5th of Feb. Here are the stars of this short film (minus the guy who plays the ghost):
16/11 – Shotgun mic purchased, filming should begin next week!
13/11 – Second draft of the script finished.
29/10 – The submission deadline on Film Fights has been pushed back to the 5th of December.
24/10 – The first draft of the script has been finished and a screen test done.
11/10/2011 – Script finished.


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Explore the most popular river trails in Washington State Park with hand-curated trail maps and driving directions as well as detailed reviews and photos from hikers, campers and nature lovers like you.
Beautiful! Steep to start. Worth the climb
I absolutely loved this trail! We just hiked the full trail over the weekend and I'm glad we went when we did. The spring wildflowers were in full bloom all along the path. Although my favorite part was at the bottom of the 1000 Steps junction where all the violets and bluebells covered the ground. This is one I will definitely hike again.
I took my dog hiking on a Tuesday here and didn't see another person on the trail the entire 6.4 miles we were out. It's very peaceful (aside from a small section near the roads) and there is a nice mix between wooded and open areas. There are also a couple spots that offer nice views. I finished the 6.4 miles in 3.5 hours and I'm a bit out of shape so I'm confident anyone can complete this hike. There are some rocky areas but they weren't that bad. This park is very well kept and has clean facilities. The office staff were all very friendly as well.
Great trail run!
Wouldn't consider the trail to be rated as difficult - it is more of a moderate. Relatively steep, but the steps give you solid footing.
Tammy F. on 1000 steps trail
Trail is marked as hard. I would consider it moderate. Nice trail though. Nice views...
Very nice loop trail with a variety of terrain and scenery. Completed this in the evening in a little less than 3 hours. Some parts of the trail are very close to roads and traffic, but other parts are very quiet and private. The old cabin ruins and and geology is very interesting. The trail is well marked and easy to follow. Total recorded mileage was 6.3 miles for the whole loop.
I really enjoyed this hike. Covers a large portion of the park. Pretty scenery...
Pretty decent hill at the beginning, nice overlook area but a lot of the trail is near the sounds of civilization; swimming pool, roads, tractors.
Great trail! Definitely keep a close eye on any little ones you bring though. The rocks can be very slippery and there are some steep drop offs. The views are beautiful from the lookout!
Terrain fairly rugged. Lots of steps and incline. Not easy!
Moderately rugged trail. There is a hidden cave off the track worth visiting.
I just found this gem after moving to Jeff Co. I dont find the difficulty very hard as my 3 year old did the hike pretty quickly and with more ease than most hikes we usually do. We did the hike mid March and it was still very beautiful.
The hill is steep and the rocks are slick. Not a bad hike for my first one
Not a long trail but very impressive with all the steps - has a nice overlook area also.
Very nice trail - did not see anyone else on the trail but the section near the road was very loud with car noise. There are a lot of different types of areas on this trail - this trail also overlaps with the Opossum Track Trail and the 1000 steps trail - it also passes by the petroglyphs area where you can stop off at.
This was a nice trail - very large hill near the beginning if you start at trailhead located across the street from the Thunderbird lodge but after that it was very easy to hike on
spent he afternoon with wife.
trail took close to two hours, very easy to follow.
FYI - Trailhead starts at the lodge for those looking for it. I had to do a bit of driving around to find it, and the state park maps were not of much assistance.
Maybe I'm hard to impress, but to me, this was just an average hike. It was a clean trail with relatively well-marked blazes. It was fall, so the dropped leaves sometimes made it difficult to find the trail.
All in all, it's a nice hike, I wouldn't consider it difficult. It's a tad long for some. But really from an elevation gain, I did not find myself out of breath while hiking.
Some neat rocks and geological features along the trail as well as some overlooks. I could hear the roads and local gun range while hiking, so that took a little bit of the "getting away" feeling that I typically want. But, the trail itself was not busy at all and only ran into one other hiker.
I also agree with the rocks and tree roots. If you're new to hiking or have weak ankles, this is a trail you might want to consider some footgear with some support or take trekking poles.
If you want something to test out your new backpack\boots and trekking poles on, and don't want to get too far away from your car\civilization where you're hurting or lugging something you hate, this is your trail.
I'd give it 3.5 stars if I could.
Christopher S. on Rocky Woods Trail
One word. Awesome! Trail was very clean and well marked. My only issue was that I was looking down A LOT. Someone else mentioned that this was the trail to sprain an ankle. I agree! Take it easy and be careful on this trail.
All in all I highly recommend this trail to anyone and everyone.
Hard Climb and then a lot of downhill. Great views.
Nice and short, challenging with all the big steps. Steps made for a different hike.
Nice trail, leaves are still on the trees but it did offer pretty nice views. Rocky and steep in sections, but overall made for a nice walk.
Great short hike. good workout. all easy after the climb. Nice view 2/3 the way up.
Really enjoyed this hike! I disagree with the hard rating. If you have done serious hiking and/or backpacking this hike will be more moderate. There are no switchbacks. It's well marked, but 3/4 into the hike the trail abruptly ends at an outdoor pavilion. It picks up again and the other side of the pavilion, on the right. However, you won't see the orange blaze until you go down the trail a little. The steepest part is after this, when it connects to the 1,000 Steps Trail. However, it's all downhill. The trail ends at the trail head sign for 1,000 Steps, which faces the lodge. I found the trail beautiful and was happily surprised by a section with wild roses!
Just stopped by to see it, nice enough. People please, please follow Leave No Trace, there are sections littered with trash. It takes away from the experience for everyone.
I'll update my review once we get on the river.
Very difficult to do the whole thing. 1,000 Steps Trail was closed but it was the only way back so we did it anyway. First, it is a trail that is constant steep descends and ascends. Lots of medium to large size rocks that are pointy, slick, shaky, unstable and jetting up out of everywhere. Tree roots, too. If ever there were a trail to sprain your ankle on, this is it. Ending with 1,000 steps is super challenging. This made The Chubb seem like no big deal. Great way to burn 4,000 calories. Not for beginners or people without strong will. Great for training, though. Carried 50 lb pack and found it to be great training.
Good hike. some steep areas with loose rock. the Rocky wilderness trail combines with the 1000 steps trail for a loop. right now the 1000 steps trail is closed due to a fallen tree on the trail and poor trail conditions from all the rain in that area recently. I would suggest you bring hiking poles with you if you have them. It will make the steep areas easier to climb and coming down easier also. Definitely wear hiking boots and layer clothes. I would bring bug spray for the summer, lots of mosquito's.


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Zach's Day to Remember
Zach Perry netted the best 16th birthday present of his dreams. The sixteen year old has been fishing for two years and also helps out on a Saturday at Droitwich Angling, so getting the chance to pick up a few tips off Des Shipp was a dream come true. The Pair met up at Woodlands View on their Club Korum pool. After a cup of tea and a chat Des had soon found out that Zach was already a good young angler, recently making it to the junior nationals early this year.
Zach was familiar with commercial fishing and Woodlands View just happened to be his favourite venue. Zach had picked his peg and with Des suggesting some feeding areas, soon began to bait the area with a few micro pellets to the left of the swim and chopped worm to the right.
Both sides produced some cracking fish but these two were the best of the bunch.
The carp came from a piece of corn over the pellets and the perch on the chopped worm. So with both sides producing good fish Zach was chuffed with Des's words of wisdom and was already thinking of his next fishing session to try out his newly learnt skills.


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Vidya Mani
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management
Department: Supply Chain and Information Systems
Office: 461 Business Building
Phone: 814-867-0181
Fax: 814-863-7067
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Member of Faculty Since: 2011
Dr. Mani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Smeal College of Business. She received her Ph.D. degree in Operations Management from the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina. She also holds a MBA in Supply Chain Management from IIT Mumbai, India, and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from MS University, India.
Dr. Mani's work experience includes working with Oracle India Pvt. Ltd., Birla Management Corporation Ltd., and Marico Industries. She is also involved in consulting projects with major companies like AGCO and Office Depot, as well as with governmental organizations like UNICEF and GIDEP.
Dr. Mani teaches undergraduate, masters and MBA level courses in the SC&IS department on Demand Fulfillment and Transportation and Distribution.
Current Research
Dr. Vidya Mani's research focuses on providing an understanding of how operational decisions within a firm drive firm performance. Firm performance can be either performance assessed from financial metrics (e.g., sales, profits, stock price) or an assessment of business risk (e.g., threat of counterfeit parts, penalties for non-compliance). She does this by adapting an analytical model developed in the literature (e.g., a consumer choice model) and leveraging it in an empirical framework that relates operational decisions (e.g., assortment decisions) to firm performance (e.g., sales). She identifies the key operational decisions that drive performance by applying econometric techniques to primary and secondary data collated from multiple sources (e.g., point-of-sale transactions, third-party information providers), and quantifies their value on firm performance through counterfactual experiments. The operational decisions in her models include: 1) how to build a portfolio of products (e.g., assortment for downsized retail stores), 2) how to manage those products (e.g., inventory management and distribution network), and 3) how to provide sales support to these products (e.g., staffing retail stores).
Dr. Mani's research projects span the breadth of supply chain management process that balances the customers' requirements with the capabilities of the supply chain. With the right process in place, management can match supply with demand proactively and execute the plan with minimal disruptions. Her research topics include:
Supply chain management
• Quantifying the impact of supply-chain factors on counterfeit risk for electronic parts and efficacy of strategic responses by firms to mitigate counterfeit risk.
• Understanding the role of specialty drugs in determining the distribution channel structure in the pharmaceutical industry and their impact on financial performance of big pharmaceutical companies.
• Developing a decision-support tool based on inventory prepositioning strategy for UNICEF to improve treatment of severely malnourished children.
• Developing supplier-collaboration strategies to improve responsiveness and collaboration while navigating economic cycles.
Retail operations
• Informing assortment-planning for small and downsized stores by incorporating basket shopping and substitution effects in the demand estimation. Inform stocking and fill-rate decisions by leveraging demand information from transaction data.
• Estimating the impact of understaffing on lost sales and profits for retail stores and improving store labor planning using store traffic data.
• Establishing the relationship between abnormal inventory growth and earnings for US public retailers and understanding the impact of omni-channel operations on firm performance.
Retail Operations, Pharmaceutical Operations, Empirical Research in Supply Chain,
Publication List
Vidya Mani and Suresh Muthulingam, "How learning from inspections affects environmental outcomes: Evidence from unconventional drilling.", M&SOM, Forthcoming,
Vidya Mani, Saravanan Kesavan and Jayashankar.M. Swaminathan, "Estimating the impact of understaffing on sales and profitability in retail stores", POMS, Forthcoming, 24, pp. 201-218.
Saravanan Kesavan and Vidya Mani, "The Relationship Between Abnormal Inventory Growth and Future Earnings for U.S. Public Retailers", M&SOM, Forthcoming, 15, pp. 6-23.
Saravanan Kesavan and Vidya Mani, "An Overview of Industry Practice and Empirical Research in Retail Workforce Management", Retail Supply Chain Management, Forthcoming, 2nd edition, pp.113-147.
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So this post was getting too too long (I aim for 800 words/post). So I split it up. The rest will likely show Tuesday. Monday if I'm particularly alert. Stay tuned!
Post subtitle: "Governance 2.0″
The story of Web 2.0 and Government Governance
Gather round kids, Doug's going to tell you a story.
The story is about how the impetus for Web 2.0 in Government actually starts a (relatively) long time ago, so we'll need to back up a bit, in a land far far away. You'll see some of the issues then still that remain today, in rolling hills, not unlike the one that overlooks the Gatineau river. Can you see it?
Far away, there's a long bountiful field. It's the field of Public Administration, and in this fields there's governance. Those pesky bushes that surround it are "issues". There are all types of issues, kids, issues that:
- have been around for a long time (order, hierarchy, centralisation/decentralisation);
- some that will always stay and will never go away (accountability, responsibility),
- some that are new (transparency, globalisation); and
- some that are old (corruption, hegemony, censorship, "legal" / "just" government).
The themes from literature over the past 20 years that advocate for reform gravitate around a few common issues that I've grouped and show you below. Some have come under different names over time (i.e.: transparency/openness, informal networking/social networking, knowledge management/information management, knowledge sharing/collaboration, etc.), but these are the ones I could chart.
For some of us, seeking solutions to these:
- is what makes the study of Public Administration (and management) interesting, exciting;
- is a very profitable way fpr consultants to make money;
- pays the salaries of many writers and commentators on the hill;
- is an active discussion point at places like a pub on Fridays in Ottawa's Italian district;
- is too daunting a task to think about deeply in 500 words or less with the morning coffee and daily newspaper.
The term "Governance" here is strict – it's academic – the combination of the political structure – Parliamentary system of government (Westminster) and the and the Administrative paradigm (doctrine?) used to carry out the political direction – which for the past 20 years has been "New Public Management". It's broad and complex. Essentially it's our post-bureaucratic system enabling managers by setting performance targets and frameworks to manage them. It works and it doesn't (for more, see this comment of mine on the Eaves.ca blog).
Then came the Internet, and with it a social net (that became Web 2.0) and propelled the public and the private sector to new heights. And governments have been playing catch-up ever since, and the public have been critical about Government.
What were the criticisms?
- Government is:
- mired with silos, silos-within-silos;
- bureaucratic, slow and inefficient;
- not transparent, open;
- boring, incoherent, closed-off;
- etc., etc., etc.
Government delays in catching up created a gap, expectations are super-high (from both the citizenry and the private sector). Considering how government is still way more efficient now than compared to 5, 10, 15 years ago, it's hard to refute the government has more tools to do what it does. Not to say there isn't much left to be done, the government is using relatively modern tools, with a modern workforce, but using old procedures in an insufficient governance paradigm.
Wikinomics author and Web 2.0 pioneer Don Tapscott comments on the bureaucracy (1997):
"simple procedures are too complex for employees to navigate, so we hire more budget analysts, more personnel experts, and more procurement officers to make things work. By then, the process involves so much red tape that the smallest action takes far longer and costs far more than it should."
(Tapscott, Don "The digital media and the reinvention of government"
Canadian Public Administration Vol. 40 Issue 2, 1997!)
I'm reluctant to extend Tapscott's quote, however he continues: "Simple travel arrangements require endless forms and numerous signatures" – anyone in government dealing with travel is surely nodding their heads now. And shaking their heads that Tapscott underlines this from 1997.
So, enter Web 2.0…what happens? Tune in … well, a few days, when the rest of this post continues.
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Public Administration lines you can impress your friends:
- "Certainly you agree our post-bureaucratic model is much too heavy on performance management…"
- "…but, as you know, governance is not so much about politics, as it is about the application of politics, which is quite different…"
- "You know, that Doug guy is bonkers, I dunno what he's yapping about this time -government is fine. Watch! I'm filing my taxes over the Internet! In "my day" we had to…what? He actually said that "government is way more efficient now"? Yep, he's bonkers."


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If ZOSO is to succeed…
Last week I asserted that the zones of special operations (ZOSO) Act and strategy, as conceived and articulated in terms of the measures of success enunciated by the prime minister, is bound to fail. The prime minister had said that the success of the ZOSOs would be measured by no murders occurring in the zones. He has subsequently altered his position with respect to murders and has now spoken of a "reduction" in murders.
There is no doubt that the high murder rate with which Jamaica is faced must be brought under control. There also can be no doubt that one of the measures of the performance of any Government must be its ability to maintain law and order and reduce crime.
However, it is a flawed approach to the analysis of the performance of the ZOSO push to limit it to "no murders" or "a reduction in murders". To do so exposes the initiative to a grave risk of failure.
I recall that after the passage of the ZOSO Bill some commentators were claiming victory by pointing to the fact that there was a drop in murders. But within a few days after a brief lull, the spate of double and triple killings, especially in Clarendon, was back. Thus the fantasy that some people embraced that the mere passage of the Bill would send criminals scampering was shown for what it was — a mere fantasy.
A similar fantasy is emerging with some celebrating the fact that killings have been less in St James since the ZOSO was established. But that is to be expected, and the murders have continued unabated in Clarendon.
Policing in Jamaica has seen several anti-crime measures going back to the infamous Suppression of Crime Act of the 1970s, to the famous Adams-led squad and others. None of these have resulted in any sustained reduction in murders. I see nothing in the ZOSO, as currently designed, that would lead me to believe that the results will be different from those under previous initiatives.
Formula for success
I make no claim to be a crime-cure czar, neither do I purport to be advancing rocket science or sharing silver bullets, but if the ZOSO is to succeed, more broadly if Jamaica is to have a chance at breaking the back of crime, there are a few basic things we must do well. I share five basic considerations:
(1) Bipartisan approach
It is by now trite logic to say that crime does not have an orange or green tinge (even though we sometimes behave as though it does). The high crime rate is not the doing of the current prime minister or minister of national security (even if both or either would want to take credit for any reduction that may occur). The high crime rate is Jamaica's problem, and unless a bipartisan, non-politicised approach is taken, we run the risk of infusing political one-upmanship in initiatives that could end up undermining the efforts towards real reduction.
No one should seek to become great from being successful in fighting crime. Applause may come later, but the focus must be on outcomes. There is a prayer I learnt in my early theological journey that says, "From the sinful desire of seeking to be great, deliver me, good Lord."
If there is a governing principle of indifference to being seen as great, then the capacity for collaboration increases. It is here that the engagement in a bipartisan approach becomes possible. Against this background I would urge the Government to engage the Opposition on its five-point crime plan. This Government has shown, perhaps more than any previous Government, that it has the capacity to take the ideas of its opponents and use them. This is a good thing.
If the People's National Party's five-point crime plan can work it deserves to be part of the contemplation. The plan includes a proposal to establish a bipartisan task force, re-implement the "Unite for Change" programme, and strengthen the justice system by expanding courts and employing more judges.
The fight over whether there should be one or more hotline points of contact for making complaints is unfortunate and unnecessary. The assertion that one party is more committed and better able to fight crime is precisely the kind of thing that should not be heard now.
(2) Set actionable 60-day targets
The key question to be considered by the country in general, and by those leading the ZOSO in Mt Salem in particular, is: What should we know at the end of 60 days? Yes, we should know where the guns are, and get them. We should also know the whereabouts of the individuals who are the leaders of criminal gangs. But in terms of long-term purpose of the ZOSO, we need to have the starting game plan of critical counter-measures that sustainably recover territories from criminal control.
These starting measures include some foundational data points on the profile of the community. The Social Development Commission has been doing profiles of communities in St James for ages, and various agencies have been in the parish long before there was even talk of a ZOSO, so there is some actionable information available. Taking account of what is already known, some additional data that would need to be gathered include:
a) The number of out-of-school youth that are resident in the community; their names, their homes and the skills they possess, if any.
b) The number of community assets that are in need of repairs (hurricane shelters, community centres, schools, clinics, roads, etc, and the cost of carrying out those repairs.
c) The quality of the programmes being offered at schools and what is needed to improve them.
d) The ideal location to be cleared (either a green or brown field) for the purpose of setting up a paramilitary training and construction operation base.
(3) Commit big money, ensure accountability & transparency
Information on conditions and community characteristics that must be the subject of transformation activities should therefore be at the forefront of the discussions about the ZOSO, not only getting illegal guns and capturing criminals. Getting illegal guns and capturing criminals is everyday police work.
I have repeatedly stated in this space that the only real sustainable way to fight crime is to tackle root causes. If the ZOSO is to be different from previous criminal counter-measures it must be known for its higher purpose and strategic focus. In this regard, Government must commit to investing big money (in Mt Salem and elsewhere) to effect the social transformations needed.
Assured that money will be available to support a massive and sustained intervention, the Social Intervention Committee must then put together a master plan that will receive the fiscal space clearance and support starting in the 2018/19 fiscal year. Spending under that budget needs to be monitored by the relevant agencies, including the Office of the Contractor General, and value for money outputs and outcomes must be paramount.
(4) Mandate / Legislate military and skills training
The proposed military base [mentioned at 2 (d)] to be constructed on either a green field or by clearing derelict buildings in or near Mt Salem, should provide training in personal discipline and marketable construction skills. Youth would be employed as block-makers, millwrights, masons, carpenters, operations managers, security personnel, draftsmen, etc. This base should be constructed under the guidance of the army, and every youth age 17 - 29 who is not employed (in a legal activity) and is not in a vocational or tertiary programme should be mandated to be part of the crew constructing this base. Even if three or more of them have to work in a five-foot square area (as many now do clearing grass on the road), that is okay. The aim is meaningful activity and preparation for sustained engagement. These same youth would, after a combination of discipline and skills training, be engaged in repairing community assets mentioned at 2(b).
All youngsters attached to the ZOSO project should be issued a ZOSO ID. The security personnel would still patrol the streets at night but would soon have built relationships with these young men and women that would make the job of monitoring that easier. Thus, there would be a buzz of economic activity in the community.
Gettin the facts right
It is inexcusable, and embarrassing, that the Government could have got the numbers wrong in relation to defining the first ZOSO. The prime minister had insisted that the community "selected itself". The Government has now acknowledged that it got the numbers wrong on Mt Salem, yet insists that naming that community was justified. Mt Salem may well be an appropriate location for a ZOSO, but what of the adjoining communities whose stats were reflected in the incorrect numbers? Should the decision not be based on accurate data? Some people have suggested that the boundaries of the zone be redrawn. That is a logical and sensible suggestion. Could the decision not to reverse the decision be based on errors or misreading of the data?
Dr Canute Thompson is head of the Caribbean Centre for Educational Planning, lecturer in the School of Education, and co-founder and chief consultant for the Caribbean Leadership Re-Imagination Initiative, at The University of the West Indies, Mona. He is also author of three books and several articles on leadership. Send comments to the Observer or c firstname.lastname@example.com.
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A survey shows the widening gap in wealth between the rich and the poor, and this is because the wealthy people are those who typically gain from the rebound of the stock market, writes Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Home prices also remain lower than the bubble levels, meaning middle class households have yet to experience growth in wealth, while most workers are unable to boost their savings because of sluggish wage growth and high unemployment rate, Baker says. This is bad news for pre-retirees, who "must rely on the wealth they have accumulated to date to support them in retirement." -- Fortune
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Justin grew up in rural Maury County, Tennessee where he learned small town values, appreciated community and saw neighbors help each other. With this background, Justin knew he wanted to pursue a career where he could help people. He always had a fascination with the law and those that fought to protect and enforce it. That is why in high school at Culleoka Unit School he chose "lawyer" as the job he was interested in.
Justin eventually followed that interest to law school where he excelled, finishing third in his class and graduating with honors. During his first year of law school, Justin joined Rocky's team as a law clerk. Justin learned firsthand how ruthless and unreasonable insurance companies and the big businesses they stand behind care more about profits than people. From day one at Rocky McElhaney Law Firm, Justin has developed a passion for representing the people against the powerful. He can't imagine doing anything other than standing up for hard working people who have been knocked down by injury or accident. Now, Justin strives every day to use the law to help people and make the community safer.
In what little free time he has, Justin likes to work out, listen to really good music and follow the stock market (he has a degree in Finance). He has been known to partake in mud volleyball tournaments, canoe, fish and hike trails throughout Tennessee. He's a fan of the Braves and Volunteers. Most nights, he can be found reading until his 10 p.m. bed time. He was recently married and has one "child," their Boston Terrier named Roscoe.


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Irene J. Turner, age 74, of Waupaca, WI passed away on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at Theda-Care Regional Medical Center-Appleton.
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It must be sad and lonely being Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed these days.
Her anti-equality allies RI-NOM is being outed as liars all over the media, and Governor Chafee's op/ed in Sunday's Providence Journal makes clear that she is not only standing in the way of social justice, but also economic growth.
It's worth noting that no community in the Ocean State would benefit more from same sex nuptials than Newport, and the local chamber of commerce has called on Paiva Weed to support marriage equality.
But the hardest part of being on the wrong side of history must be the real life stories of being oppressed. Here's a copy of a letter that Katrina Chaves, a Massachusetts-based LGBTQ activist and former /future Rhode Island College student, wrote to her recently:
Dear Senator Paiva Weed,
My name is Katrina Chaves, and I am writing this letter to ask you to come out in favor of same-sex marriage, and consider the legacy you are leaving behind. I admittedly know very little about you, and would not have been inclined to write, had I not learned of the ways in which you could potentially affect my future, and the future of my community. I urge you to publicly pledge your support, as I urge all Americans, for there is much at stake.
As a Massachusetts resident who hopes to return to the state where I graduated college, I must say that Rhode Island has given me more than I can describe in a few paragraphs. Hopefully, I have returned the favor, spending nearly a decade protesting, laughing, loving, living, and working in Providence. I plan on continuing to give back to the communities that shaped my identity and formed some of my most cherished memories. However, this will not be entirely possible, if progress is not made.
If it sounds like I am writing about the "gay marriage" issue here, let me clarify: I am not. I have never identified as gay, and will not suddenly become gay by marrying my female partner. Sexuality is far more fluid and complex than that, and (regardless of how it is portrayed) love is not black and white. It is often indifferent to gender. Intimacy can be cultivated between two people of any race, sex, class, and cultural background. I am writing about same-sex marriage because it is a personal and political issue – a civil rights issue- that impacts the quality of my life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, as well as that of future generations.
When I marry my partner, an adventurous, witty, and hardworking Marine Corps veteran, it will not matter that she is female. As we walk down the aisle, the only thing that will matter is the love and unconditional support that we bring to each other's lives.
As an activist, I can easily list the many ways in which society will be improved by allowing LGBTI folks like us to marry. Being the only state in New England without same-sex marriage makes RI businesses less competitive; one cannot underestimate the potential boost to our economy as a result of weddings and engagements.
Moreover, this state has a history of religious freedom and tolerance that will not be affected by legalization, which 56% of Rhode Island voters are in favor of, anyway.
Still, all logic and reason aside, it is not my goal to persuade you with a rational explanation of how the "pros" outweigh the "cons" here. Rather, I invite you to listen to your conscience, if you have one, and examine your own humanity. What are the values you stand for? How do you want to be remembered? Do you believe in doing the right thing, simply for the sake of doing the right thing? Do you believe that equality is "the right thing?"
Perhaps you have heard about former state Rep. Charles Knowles, a man who, upon much reflection, admitted he was wrong to oppose same-sex marriage. He recently testified, "I viewed my opposition basically on moral grounds, as a Christian, but I've also said to myself that the First Amendment separates church and state. I believe it goes both ways.
The government shouldn't be putting its nose into my religious beliefs or lack thereof, and I think people's religion should stay out of this building. When I was a lawmaker, I should have looked at the law and the Constitution before I made up my mind based on what was in my heart."
As much as I appreciate his transformation and newfound support, I find his path to this conclusion a bit disheartening. I think it is our job to decide what we feel is humane, fair, and just, in a broader sense. We must let our moral compass guide us in the right direction, in any career, and follow that code of ethics even when there are repercussions. Yes, even if it makes you unpopular in political and personal spaces. Charles Knowles was not wrong because he made up his mind "based on what was in his heart." He was wrong because his heart apparently told him that other human beings are less deserving of equality and justice.
So, I now ask you, Senator, to be honest with yourself, and with your constituents.
What does your heart say?
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Story: British comedy in which a rookie music manager attempts to find success without losing sight of what's really important. Dixie (Jonny Owen) is a South Wales postman who is crazy about music. After discovering a band called The Premature Congratulations on YouTube he tracks them down and proposes that he become their manager. With the support of his partner Michelle (Vicky McClure), Dixie works tirelessly, promoting the band and organising gigs for no pay, but as they start finding success, The Premature Congratulations only become more arrogant and there is a good possibility they will drop their manager. Will Dixie stay in the music business or go back to simply enjoying music as a fan? The cast also includes Martin Freeman, Matt Berry and Michael Smiley.
Starring: Jonny Owen, Vicky McClure, Martin Freeman, Matt Berry, Michael Smiley, Michael Socha, Natasha O'Keeffe, Morwenna Banks, Leila Wong, Joel Fry
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Light & Land
The North Coast 500 photography tour – "Scotland's Route 66"
15th - 27th Oct, 2018 - FULLY BOOKED
Tutored by Clive Minnitt and Phil Malpas and
£3499.00 PP / Deposit -£400.00 PP
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The North Coast 500 was launched in 2014 by the North Highlands Initiative with a view to enticing visitors to experience the spectacular scenery north of the Great Glen. Our itinerary is designed to take in the very best mountains, glens, coastline, castles and lochs that the north of Scotland can uniquely offer.Read More
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- Accommodation
- Breakfasts
- Transport during the tour
- Tuition from Clive Minnitt and Phil Malpas
- Transfers from Inverness airport at recommended time
- Travel to Inverness
- Insurance
Duration 7+ Night Tours
Exertion Strenuous
Tour Code NC500a
The North Coast 500 was launched in 2014 by the North Highlands Initiative with a view to enticing visitors to experience the spectacular scenery north of the Great Glen. Our itinerary is designed to take in the very best mountains, glens, coastline, castles and lochs that the north of Scotland can uniquely offer.
Billed as "Scotland's Route 66" the route begins and ends in the "Capital of The Highlands", Inverness and takes the traveller on a 516-mile route around the northern coastline.
We have been keen to develop a tour based around this epic route ever since it was first announced. Whilst we will travel the whole of the route during the 13-day trip, we will base ourselves in 5 well spread locations that will allow us plenty of time to travel outwards from the NC500 to visit some of the most iconic scenery in Scotland.
The first three nights of our adventure will be based in Inverness which will allow us to explore the north facing coasts of Nairnshire and Moray. Here we will experience extremely diverse geology from sea-pounded rock arches to wild and complex dune systems. We will also use our time in Inverness to travel inland to photograph the beautiful glens and mountains adorned with the ochre hues of autumn colour.
On day four we will travel north to our new base in Wick, Caithness which will allow us to explore the far north east of the country. Here the famed John O'Groats lies just to the east of the true northernmost point of mainland UK at Dunnet Head. At the most north-eastern edge of the UK is Duncansby Head and bay with its precipitous cliffs and "jagged-tooth" sea-stacks. We are a long way north here – it is almost as far south to London as it is north to the Arctic Circle!
Our fifth and sixth nights will be spent at the comfortable Tongue Hotel in the small village of Tongue on the northern Atlantic coast. This part of the coast is dotted with beautiful white sand beaches that are blessed with views of the nearby mountains such as Ben Loyal. One such beach is the delightfully named Ceannabeinne (otherwise known as "Can of Beans") which along with Balnakiel Bay and Loch Eribol will offer us a huge variety of subjects to explore.
On day seven we will experience a significant change in the landscape as we head south to Ullapool and our opportunity to explore the mystical mountains of Assynt and Torridon. Our three night stay here, on the shores of Loch Broom will allow us ample time to head north to the remarkable mountains of Assynt including the awe-inspiring Suilven and the diminutive, yet perfectly formed Stac Pollaidh. We will also head south to Loch Maree and Upper Loch Torridon where we will be able to photograph some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in Scotland.
Although not strictly on the NC500, it seemed an opportunity to good to miss, so our final 3 nights will be spent on the beautiful Isle of Skye. Here we will explore those iconic locations without which no tour of Scotland could be considered complete.
Finally, we will return to Inverness where our epic adventure began just 13 days, but a truly memorable 13 days ago.
Autumn is a precious time for landscape photographers. What better way to spend this most beautiful time of year than exploring some of the most spectacular scenery anywhere in the world? This thirteen-day tour will allow us to deeply immerse ourselves in the wild and remote scenery that straddles the wonderful "North Coast 500".
You will meet at the Royal Highland Hotel on 15th October, your room will be available from 3pm. The hotel is only a few metres from Inverness train station.
Royal Highland Hotel Inverness
15th, 16th, 17th October:
Royal Highland Hotel, Inverness
Ackergill Tower
18th October:
Ackergill Tower. Single occupancy.
The Tongue Hotel
19th and 20th October:
The Tongue Hotel, Tongue, Sutherland
Caledonian Hotel
21st, 22nd and 23rd October:
Caledonian Hotel, Ullapool
The Sligachan Hotel
24th, 25th October:
The Sligachan Hotel, Sligachan
The Royal Highland Hotel
26th October:
The Royal Highland Hotel, Inverness
Thank you very much for your emails and the itinerary. It was a very enjoyable trip but I haven't had time to process since returning, though did manage to give Neil a quick tutorial on Lightroom at Inverness airport! I will email you soon with more thoughts on the trip – which areas I found particularly good and some where I think small alterations could be made. Hope Vietnam goes well, I am sure that your preparation will mean it is a success. With thanks and best wishes Godfray Guilbert - February, 2018
Many thanks to you both for a great trip, and particularly for all the trouble you took to research the locations and to offer us so much variety. All best wishes Lis Long - February, 2018
I did enjoy the tour very much, which I already mentioned to Phil. Great views, lovely company and experienced advice from you. Thanks again for everything and for being drone friendly too! Alexander Zelinskiy - February, 2018
Brilliant as ever!!! So enjoyed myself. Company and scenery were great. Will start the big processing job tomorrow. Have fun in Vietnam. Best regards Neil Jackson - February, 2018
Thanks again for a great trip. Thanks also for the birthday cake! Regards, Maurice - Best wishes from Margaret too. Maurice Ford - February, 2018
Thanks so much for an epic trip savouring the NC500. You are the crock at the end of the rainbow ..... of gold not s**t. Love Julia xx Julia Moffett - February, 2018
Thanks for another wonderful time. As always, you both were amazing Debbie Jackson - February, 2018
Always fun to spend time with you. Thanks for the pre-planning to make for a nice trip. Larry Jackson - February, 2018


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Another old diary entry, written in February 2004, whilst I was still a student at university.
The thing I like most about this is that it was quite obviously the first time we'd had to deal with a broken modem, and things like helplines. Nowadays, being held in queues and passed between pillar and post is sort of the norm. Back then, as unassuming 20 year olds, it was pretty new to us. Reading back this account of us trying to negotiate our way through a maze of people who weren't ready to snap their fingers and solve things for us and trying to be adults whilst doing it makes me laugh.
I think we probably all remember a time like this, when the Internet wouldn't work and there was nothing for it but to rejoin the real world, talk to each other, and spend hours on the phone trying desperately to get someone to fix it and make everything okay again.
I'm resorting to writing in Microsoft Word as our Internet has been down for three days now. It's getting to Kate, Tazz and I (aka the ones who don't have much better to do than sit around shopping online, checking our e-mails a hundred times a day and chatting to people on MSN), me the most severely. The first day was okay; we assumed that the network was just down for a bit, it does that occasionally. We reset the router (which lives in the cupboard under the stairs) a couple of times and actually unplugged and replugged it once or twice. The second day we all started to panic a bit. Cue the trying to log in ten thousand times every hour, and Kate taking up refuge on top of the freezer (also in the cupboard under the stairs) staring up at the modem hopelessly. I escaped to the library for a bit to check my emails there and ran into Dan…we ended up going to lunch and I forgot about it again. Today I have broken out into a sweat and started rocking back and forth. And worse, I have become addicted to two-suit Spider Solitaire. Which is nigh on impossible, by the way. I took matters into my own hands while I was killing time before I had to leave for work this morning, and called the BT help line, got stuck in a queue for twenty minutes, during which time I memorised the automated 'you are being held in a queue' message and started repeating it back at the phone. When I got through, the woman told me to ring some other number. So I did that this evening and they told me to ring the makers of the modem. They then failed to come up with a telephone number for the makers of the modem so I got told to ring our landlord. Which we did yesterday, before I'd even rung BT. Bloody bastards. They just take you round in pointless circles. It's like Kate said the other week after being stuck on the line to T-Mobile for half a century before being messed about totally by a stupid woman from Birmingham: they shouldn't be called help lines. Just lines.
In the meantime, I am being left here to go quietly insane. I didn't realise how much of a hold the Internet has over my life. Well, I did, but you tend to take it for granted, after it's become habit to get up in the morning, connect and stay connected for most of the day during the last year and a half. And because it's just been sitting there welcoming me into its open arms for ages, you just incorporate it into your life. Half my friends I keep in regular contact with over the net. Mainly because they too have Broadband in their rooms, so it's just easier to keep tabs on each other that way rather than ringing or texting. We Uni people use it to make plans because having MSN conversations that are linked to here, St Swithuns, Erasmus Park and West Downs all at once is easier than making six separate phone calls. People from back home like Leon, Alex and Stuart I keep in touch with over the Internet. In fact, I'm kind of insulted that I haven't had worried phone calls checking I'm still breathing. When Leon's broadband broke the other week I rang him up to check he was alive. Honestly!


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She Tried It! Foxybae Straightening Hair Brush
Last night, as I was setting my clothes out for today I thought about wanting to wear a full top knot but not feeling like going through the process of straightening my hair. And then I remembered the FoxyBae Straightening Hair Brush I hadn't tried yet and figured there was no time like the present.
I reached out to try the Straightening Hair Brush after receiving inquiries from readers about whether the tool works as well as flat irons, and after watching a few tutorials of other natural girls trying the brushes and getting great results. So, at 10 pm, I hopped in the shower, gave my hair a quick wash and condition, and put the hand-held straightener to work.
For starters, the straightening brush is beautiful — I like using products and tools that are pretty, sue me. The rose gold detailing on the handle gives a luxurious look and the brush has the weight of a product that you can tell is worth a pretty penny. But what's most important, is the style of the brush is also functional. The handle is sleek but has a rubber-like grip that prevented the brush from slipping out of my hand while straightening, plus the 360° Swivel Cord allows you to manipulate the device any way you need for optimal styling — and the cord is long enough for you to move around without feeling restricted to one area.
After conditioning and towel drying, I applied the Daily Moisturizer, Anti-Breakage and Repair Antidote Oil, and Multi-Vitamin Scalp Nourishing Growth Oil from The Mane Choice before blow-drying my hair. I only used my TxturePRO wave comb while blow-drying for a little extra straightening and detangling, and once dry, I separated my hair as I would when flat ironing and put the brush to work.
The first thing I noticed was how easy it was to glide the brush through my hair. The straightening brush uses Tourmaline Technology as well as infrared heat to deliver straighter, silkier results, lock in moisture and reduce frizz. I did find myself going over my hair more than I normally would with a flat iron, even with 450° heat, but I was also doing very quick passes with the brush, more like I would when regularly brushing my hair, as opposed to the slow, controlled strokes I use with a flat iron.
The second thing I noticed was how easy it was to handle the brush. I tend to always accidentally hit the control switches on the side of flat irons and cut them off in the process of straightening, but that didn't happen with the brush. The handle also never slipped out of my hand, despite the oil on my hair or hand. I really just felt like I was brushing my hair which made straightening a far less tedious process than it normally is. It's also why I kept "burning" my fingertips — I forgot the bristles of the brush were hot because the brushing motion just felt so natural, not like my normal straightening process.
It only took me about 30 minutes to straighten my hair and I was pleased with the results in the end because I didn't plan on wearing my hair down and straight like I would with a thorough silk press. I simply wanted more stretch and smoothing than I would get with blow-drying, which the straightening brush gave me. I found my roots were the hardest part to get completely straight, due to the size of the brush and the inability to really "grip" my thick roots. I also couldn't bump the ends like I would with other straightening tools, but for what I wanted to achieve in a small amount of time, this brush was perfect.
Last night I slept with a silk scarf, and this morning I brushed my hair into a topknot which was fuller than it would've been if I did it with my hair wet, but also smoother than it would've been had I just blow-dried my hair without any additional heat. If you're a natural who loves a textured straight look or you want to try fun updos and pompadours without sacrificing texture for sleekness, I recommend the FoxyBae straightening brush. You'll achieve length, retain texture, and reduce frizz without having the silky straight look of the relaxers you left behind. And if you still relax your hair, this brush should be all you need to achieve a great sleek style.


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January is virtually over … detox turns to retox … cold and grey turns to pink and fuzzy! It must be Valentines!!
Thoughts of "will the rain ever stop?" gradually fade into the background as thoughts of "Is it Valentine's already" come into our minds… and that quest for the "perfect" Valentine's begins…
So what would one have to tick on the checklist to match up to expectations (Feel free to comment and add in your own!)?
- A card … don't under-estimate the value of cards!
- A personal outing … just the two of you!
- A gift …. Something�special and unique…Not cheap, but not ridiculously expensive
- Chocolate
Now this is where The Chocolate Cellar steps in….
We can help tick those boxes off:
Gifts made to suit every budget from chocolate hearts to chocolate workshops, from chocolate shoes to chocolate bouquets!!
A special "hot chocolate for two" offer�with chocolate truffles
A chocolate tasting evening for couples on Valentine's Night … a chance to attend a chocolate tasting evening with some very interesting chocolate dishes on offer … bookings currently being taken!
We will also be at the Wirral Farmers Market during the day! We are still in the same spot as always … and our chocolate remains outstanding …. just a few new faces serving you now!
Just one more�thought… you can get just a bit too pink and fluffy … Allow us to keep it tasteful for you… and allow us to tantalise your tastebuds!
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So … today I should really be in the Chocolate Room making shot glasses for La Finca Elvissa, La Finca Bodega and Tapas Tapas. Its a hot sunny day and as I am not yet in a temperature controlled industrial unit I am stuck! It is too warm to work with chocolate today. I do […]
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Once again I would like to thank everyone and anyone who has been kind enough to vote / nominate The Chocolate Cellar. I was so happy to have been listed in Good Taste Magazine's Power List: 100 women in Food and Drink. It was amazing to see my name listed with many good friends in […]
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So Easter was a little bit manic with making Unicorns and Dinosaurs. We were overwhelmed with the lovely comments we received as feedback to the eggs we made. Thank you so much – we are delighted that we were able to bring so much happiness with our little treats. We have been a bot behind […]
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As Valentines is coming up we have put together a little list of some of our favourite spices to add a little bit of heat to the proceedings. As well as Chocolate, Raw Oysters, Strawberries and more, spices are often cited as being aprodisiacs and are often use in many cultures when preparing recipes for […]


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