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i tried to use gridview 1.0.4 but it dosent works it still show in default view
i tried to use gridview 1.0.4 but it dosent works it still show in default view
I can't get it to work, either. I even deleted it and re-installed it but it just doesn't change the view at all. I changed the settings at the store level and at categories. Nothing. So frustrating.
Same problem with my install of 1.0.4 despite it's turned on. Reverting back to 1.0.3 and that still works.
I just installed the plugin a few minutes ago. I followed the instructions activating the plugin, went into shop, selected 'grid view,' selected '4' (didn't work) tried '3' and '2' also didn't work. What am I doing wrong?
My product page:
The only thing I can think of is perhaps the product names are too long? Is there someway to keep the names (maybe in two lines) but still have grid view?
Well, it's not because the names are too long...I changed all of the names and the grid view is still not working. I am noticing a message that says, "Grid View Lite is active. We've detected that your product image thumbnails are not scaled to size." What size are the thumbnails supposed to be so I can fix this? Any advice/suggestions?
"Grid View Lite is active. We've detected that your product image thumbnails are not scaled to size."
This means that the images shown are downscaled and cropped into a square default size of 148x148 to be shown in grid view, unless you selected a different square size at WPEC's Presentation admin tab.
You may buy the pro version to get those images automatically downscaled to 148x? or ?x148 without being cropped, as any normally rectangular sized picture would be downscaled.
The other option is to add filters to a plugin to convert the 148x148 downscaled product pictures to 148x? or ?x148, depending if the image largest size is the base or the side, respectively.
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Published: Monday, November 29, 2004 at 4:30 a.m.
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Jo-Ellen Morris cradles a fat, rounded little doll in her hands, showing a mischievous grin handpainted on its bulbous baby body. She rotates the doll, shaped like a butternut squash, to show a drop seat in its baby blue pajamas and a dimple that looks for all the world like a baby's bottom.
"I see whatever is in my head and I work with it," said the Mills River resident, 61, in a voice that sounds soft, kind and earnest, like she might use with a grandchild. "I look at a piece and I paint whatever I see in the gourd."
There are colorful Santas and elves, bright white snowmen and swans, spotted cows and dogs. With homegrown artistry and a fanciful imagination, Morris coaxes these characters from oddly shaped, hollow brown gourds.
The gourds spring green and lumpy from a garden patch her husband, Donald, tends next to their home on South Mills River, along with the plump blue spruce Christmas trees that cover one corner of their yard.
But there's more to the story than a mountain woman crafting colorful baubles from the hard hollow vegetables her husband grows in the fertile riverside soil.
To begin with, she isn't a mountain woman, at least by birth. She's a native of Michigan. But one would hardly know it from her accent, shaped by 20 years of mountain living like rounded rocks in the river flowing quietly by their home.
"I told my husband when he asked me to marry him, a mountain woman I will never be -- a Southern belle maybe," she says with a smile.
Her colorful gourds, hand-painted and etched, are also more than whimsical bits of folk art. They are fruits of a life marked by pain and tragedy, faith and perseverance, determination and hope.
She first overcame polio as a child and still battles infirmities from a devastating accident she suffered 21 years ago. Partially disabled and married to man of missionary ministries, she has used her quiet time at home to become self-taught in the vernacular of an archaic Appalachian craft.
Harbingers of hardship
Jo-Ellen was born in Mt. Clemens, Mich. She developed polio at age 2, just after learning to walk, and was hospitalized for a year and a half. She has worn a leg brace ever since.
After battling polio as a toddler, she had a second brush with mortality at age 7. She was sitting on a dock next to a lake when a cousin's dog came up behind her and knocked her into the water. With a steel brace on her leg, she sank like a stone.
"If it weren't for my cousin walking out the door right at that split second I would have been gone then," she said. "My mother told me I was a cat with nine lives. She died at 55, never lived to see what all I lived through."
Morris was married and raised two children while working five years as a medical technician at a hospital in Mt. Clemens. When her first marriage ended in divorce, she had to quit her job to care for her children, her father and grandmother.
Donald Morris was born in 1934 Buncombe County and attended the former Sand Hill High School. He lived in a log cabin on his family's home at the foot of Busbee Mountain near the Blue Ridge Parkway until 1950, when his family moved to Michigan. There he worked 31 years for Ford Motor Co. and fathered four children in a previous marriage.
Don and Jo-Ellen met at a dinner dance for parents without partners. On her 40th birthday, in the summer of 1983, she came down to meet his family in Buncombe County and go to their church, Biltmore Baptist. It was on that trip she recalls two harbingers of hardships to come.
During a sermon at the church, she said she was mesmerized by the sight of a butterfly caught between the panes of stained glass. Later, Don took her to Black Mountain to meet his aunt Lillie.
When the older women met her nephew's girlfriend, who was almost 10 years younger, she had strange slip of the tongue.
"She looked at us and she said, 'Don, you're robbing the grave.' He said 'what did you say?' And three times she responded the same. He said 'don't you mean robbing the cradle?'"
Aunt Lillie responded: "Lord, what did I say?"
They left her house and headed back to Michigan with her two children riding in the back of his Ford pickup truck inside a camper. About 10 miles inside Michigan a 20-year-old female motorist swerved to hit a piece of retread tire in the road and hit their truck. The pickup rolled 6 1/2 times.
Her son and daughter, ages 13 and 10, were traumatized and bruised but were protected from more serious injuries by a mattress and the steel camper top. The driver of the other vehicle was not seriously injured. But she was thrown out and skidded 56 feet on her head on the hot sunny pavement.
Jo-Ellen was comatose for 3 1/2 days and hospitalized for seven weeks. The accident happened Aug. 26, 1983.
"When I woke up from the coma after the accident there was a doctor standing over me and I remember opening my eyes. He slightly shook his head and said 'woman, I never expected you to open your eyes again.'"
The accident had torn the side of her head open. To repair the damage, doctors had to split her scalp and pull it down over the damaged area, using saline-filled balloons to stretch the scalp. She was awake at the time and under local anesthetic.
During her weeks in the hospital, Don drove 100 miles one way every day for three weeks to visit her. During that time he asked her to marry him. Despite double vision and the loss of hearing in one ear and other injuries, she recovered to the point they were able to marry on Dec. 2, 1983.
"I feel it was the strength I had in my body from fighting polio all those years that was the reason I overcame," she said. "I'm still fighting."
Home in the mountains
After being married, the couple moved to Asheville. His children were already grown, but hers were still at home. After living about five years there, their friend Ken Schoewe told them about a house for sale next to his on the shore of the South Mills River. The Morrises bought that house in the shadow of Forge Mountain about 15 years ago, and have lived there ever since.
They became involved in Yoke Fellow Ministry, a ministry to prisoners, and befriended and visited inmates. A picture of one man, still incarcerated near Spruce Pine, graces their living room wall along with crosses, candles, a buck's mounted head and a butterfly.
One day in church, Jo-Ellen heard the words to a Gospel hymn, "Just like a butterfly I'm finally free." Her mind went back to the butterfly caught in the stained glass window just before her accident.
"It just touched me it went right through me," she said. "It was like I was seeing me between the panes of that window."
"She added: "I believe it is all in God's hands and he has been holding mine throughout my life. And through the grace of God, I'm here today."
The same could be said of her husband. Only partially retired, he still works at the Continental Teves brake plant and spends his spare time helping others. One day, he called her from work to say he felt a burning in his chest.
"He said I won't be home right now, I've got to go to the hospital first," she said. "I said you're not driving yourself and I took him. He ended up with six bypasses."
Today, her husband "is as healthy as you'd want to see a 70-year-old man." On the bank of the South Mills River, he grows gourds of all shapes and sizes.
The gourds come out of the garden green and covered with mold. He scrubs them clean then sets them aside to dry for six months to a year. Then she paints them.
Jo-Ellen knows people in the Southern Appalachians make crafts out of gourds, but she said she has never taken lessons or modeled her crafts after others.
"I have fooled around in my past with sketching and painting little items, but never like what I am doing now. I just look at it and as an artist will see their canvas and see in their own mind's eye what they want, that's pretty much what I do."
She sells the painted gourds for prices ranging from $25 to $50 depending on their size and markings. He sells blue spruce and white pine Christmas trees, much like the ones he used to grow on 102 acres of family land in Buncombe County. He also raises chickens -- Rhode Island reds, Dominiques and "buffs."
Friday afternoon, Don showed his trees -- and his chickens -- to a young couple and their toddler.
"Do you eat them," the woman asked as he held out his prized rooster for them to pet.
"I eat their eggs," he responded.
Even during the years he lived in Detroit, Don always wanted to return to the mountains. Two or three times a year he would head south to visit about 100 acres of mountain land he and a relative owned near Leicester. A few years ago, he sold the land to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy to be preserved.
"You can take the boy out of the mountains, but you can't take the mountains out of the boy," he said.
During their 21 years together, he says his mountain ways have rubbed off on his wife.
"I had to work on it," he said with a smile. "She wouldn't milk my goats, so she paints gourds."
Jo-Ellen admits she probably would never have become a gourd artist were it not for her husband's roots. So the women who vowed she would never be a mountain woman is here to stay.
"I guess the mountain living is in me and I wouldn't think of moving back north," she said.
Interested in a hand-painted gourd or Christmas tree? Call the Morrises at 891-5658.
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"Authentication Using Graphical Password To Upgrade Security & Memorability"
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After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.
This paper contains substantial duplication of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.
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"YAGP: Yet Another Graphical Password"
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Today we use Alphanumeric passwords in computer and network to authenticate the user. It is well known that long, alphanumeric passwords are difficult to remember, while shorter ones are easily to attack. Graphical password scheme provides a alternative to this problem. Draw-A-Secret (DAS) is a user drawing implementation on a grid canvas. This paper highlights a graphical password scheme inspired by DAS and serve the the advantages of free drawing positions and large password space. Experiments illustrate the effectiveness of this scheme.


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Ireland's Catholic Church, host of the International Eucharistic Congress, has suffered a dramatic loss of credibility in recent years, but also shows signs of renewal after a decade of turbulence.
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German Cardinal Reinhard Marx called for a "social market economy" in the wake of the fiscal crisis that has gripped much of Europe over the past year.
The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has launched a monthly insert dedicated to women, aiming to bring greater attention to their important but sometimes neglected role in the Church.
As tens of thousands of families from all over the world gathered for the World Meeting of Families, Pope Benedict urged them to use their Christian values and strengths to help bring peace, joy and solidarity to everyone in their lives.
Re: Kay Feehan's letter, titled "Pray for U.S. sisters who are under attack" (WCR letters, May 28).
Anne Marie Babich thinks that applause is inappropriate at Mass (WCR Letters, May 21). Most of us prefer silence during religious services.
I enjoyed reading the article on Blessed Pope John XXIII and his secretary Archbishop Loris Capovilla (WCR May 28).
In his column on Page 19, Father Ayo Ayeni contrasts the conventional thinking and life of our age with the wisdom of the Holy Spirit. The pursuit of wisdom, he says, leads one to communion and to understand love as sacrifice. The sinking into conventionality plants one in a blah existence, one lacking even in moral signposts.
A number of years ago, accompanied by an excellent Jesuit director, I did a 30-day retreat using the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. In the third week, there's a meditation on Jesus' agony in the garden. I did the meditation to the best of my ability and met with my director to discuss the result. He wasn't satisfied and asked me to repeat the exercise.
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Italy's leading Digital and Figurative Arts Academy, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, an international school of Comic Art, has chosen Chicago for its first location outside of Italy. For 34 years, the school, headquartered in Rome, has trained artists who have gone on to work for creative agencies and leading comic book publishers in the U.S. and throughout Europe. The Chicago location will join schools in nine major Italian cities including Rome, Florence, and Naples.
Chicagoans will have a chance to tour the unique, Kinzie Corridor location when the Scuola Internazionale di Comics hosts a free, public preview event at their new school.
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Skip to comments.Love Boat makes its final run to Turkish scrap heap
Posted on 08/08/2013 4:22:31 PM PDT by re_tail20
The MS Pacific, a cruise ship made famous by the popular U.S. 1970s television show "The Love Boat," has sailed its final voyage to a ship-breaking yard on Turkey's Aegean Sea coast, a shipping group said on Wednesday.
Called the Pacific Princess when it was on the long-running comedy, the iconic 13,500-tonne, 171-m-long (561-foot-long) vessel will be stripped for its metal and parts, said Ersin Ceviker of the Ship Recyclers' Association of Turkey.
Aaron Spelling's "The Love Boat," starring Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain, ran on the U.S. television network ABC from 1977 to 1986. The show was set on board the Pacific Princess, which mainly sailed from California to the Mexican Riveria.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Now I've got the theme song stuck in my head. Thanks a lot!
Here's another story on the Pacific Princess that talks about it's recent troubles and features current pictures:
Just in case!
Cool, thanks for sharing.
I can almost smell that stale cigarette smell that sticks to 1970s Casinos and Cruise ships.
Who knew that ship was even still around, amazing.
Love, exciting and new Come Aboard. We're expecting you. Love, life's sweetest reward. Let it flow, it floats back to you.
Love Boat soon will be making another run The Love Boat promises something for everyone Set a course for adventure, Your mind on a new romance.
Love won't hurt anymore It's an open smile on a friendly shore. Yes LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE! It's LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE! (hey-ah!)
Does anyone remember the name of the ship in a much earlier TV sitcom starring Gale Storm? She was Susanna Pomeroy the recreation or was it activities directo? Her best friend was the ships manicurist played by Zasu Pitts. The captain was Captain Huxley.
We enjoyed a 2 week cruise on the Pacific Princess in 1998. We sailed out of Istanbul into the Black Sea-11 ports in 14 days-the cruise ended in Rome. Great memories.
Thanks for posting.
the song always reminded me of the Love American Style theme song...
Yeah I know that after the pilot that it was a stage set.
But give me those washed up has-been "stars" walking around.
Who cares about the smoking?
Doesn't everyone want Captain Steubing running the place?
All of the guest stars wound up at his table.
Thanks, I really liked the show.
Gale Storm could really sing. I still remember her singing "Dark Moon" and it was one of my favorite songs.
Those two were so damn funny!
That's why she isn't around in the latter seasons.
She ended up in Seattle where she lives, selling cheese at Metropolitan Market, an upscale grocery store.
We asked after her, but apparently she's gone on to bigger and better things.
Jack Jones.
The love boat goes bye bye
Thanks for the Love Boat ping.
No, we were not very compatible..........
What was the deal with those pastel-ly wrinkle free, skin tones and set colors in those 70s TV shows? Everything looked like various flavors of sherbet.
I was thinking those "washed up" stars were a helluva lot more talented and interesting than the crap that passes for celebrity today.
But, alas, this was her in 2010...
Your image from 2010 must have been so hideous that the website removed it to protect itself!
What a shame, for her.
As for the boat I would have thought that would be valuable to some rich collector of memorabilia.
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Dear lord, why did FR defenses break down when you posted it?! ;)
Did you check the link you posted? Perhaps the picture is pulled or you made a typo.
FR wouldnt disable the picture if it was offensive, they would delete the comment.
It's actually her profile picture on IMDb. It should be showing, just right-click "show picture" again. It's not awful, given her former drug habit, but sadly what happens to attractive women regardless... the horror known as "aging."
My family took the Pacific Princess from Anchorage, Ak through British Columbia to Vancouver in the 90's. The nice part about PP as compared to the larger cruise ships was that she could cruise deep into the fjords in and around Glacier Bay. She had maneuvering motors below the waterline that allowed her to 360 in spot. We got much closer to glaciers and we were able to experience ice calves up close. Food as good as any cruise line. The exercise room was a bit cramped.
LOL I know, I was kidding. I was razzing DJ for posting what I assumed was a bad link.
However the address is correct and the pic shows up when I go to to it so I don't know why it doesn't show up here (for me at least).
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My wife and I planned a trip to NYC for our 20th anniversary that was cancelled at the last minute due to weather, cancelled flights, etc. We decided to do an impromptu trip over to Chapel Hill for the night. I booked a room at the Franklin Hotel. I stay at nice hotels all over the world for work and this one ranks right up there. Right on Franklin St, great service and a very nice room. After dinner and a walk on campus we returned to the room to find a bottle of champaign on ice and a card signed by everyone working at the hotel.
Breakfast included is very nice. Only thing I would do different is not book the balcony room. It has a four-foot concrete wall so you can't see Franklin Street if you are sitting at the table. Minor point but I always try to provide a balanced report. Great place with great service. Planning our next trip already.
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[ 13 May 2016 at 5:30 pm; ] What can the audio-visual materials of the National Archives of Australia tell us about social and political change in modern Australia? Frank Bongiorno, author of The Sex Lives of Australians: A History (2012) and The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (2015), will talk about how major changes public and private life during the 1960s and 1970s can be [...]
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text: Posted January 22, 2013 And @Kurb if you can't see that the NFL owners have a problem hiring qualified black men to positions of power then you are blind as fug. The only point that KT made I don't agree with is the point that the NFL is 40 years behind; they are not. Most of the world (with the exception of the US and Britain) is racist as poo. And the NFL is actually a pretty good mirror of American society as far as this issue is concerned. Old white men who amassed the large sums of money required to buy/own a team will hire who they want and will not react well to being forced by the NFL to do anything. They are used to doing what they want. Their attitudes are the problem; why should they hire a qualified black man when they are not comfortable with that and (in their opinion) they can hire an equally competent white man to do that job? I'm not sure how the NFL can fix that. Should a black man be hired to be a HC over a white man just because he is black? That is basically what KT has been advocating/insinuating on this board for years. Black people should get X because they are black and I disagree with that. Caldwell was a poor HC in Indy (IMO), but it is worth mentioning that their GM created a poo team in the end. That said I doubt the rest of the NFL has forgotten that. Bengals Raiders Bears Panthers Indy Pittsburg Have had minority coaches in recent years. Hell most would say Tomlin was one of the top 5 coaches in the NFL. 2 of the best GM's in the NFL are black. Ravens/Giants. I support diversity in all business, but not to a fault. FWIW the NFL now has a owner that is a Minority (Khan in JVille) KT has long self appointed himself some kind of pioneer of the Black man on these forums, a destroyer of racism. When in fact he promotes the success of one race over another for the sake of color. That in itself is wrong. It does the world good to call out silly people from time to time. and when everyone jumps on my back as a closet racist, I will stand behind my exceptionally diverse group of friends and associates and laugh. 6 people like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Bears coach Lovie Smith still wants Devin Hester returning punts
There are 79 comments on the Chicago Tribune story from May 3, 2009, titled Bears coach Lovie Smith still wants Devin Hester returning punts. In it, Chicago Tribune reports that:It seems reasonable for Devin Hester to get less work on special teams as he continues to evolve into a No.
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#1 May 3, 2009
"as he continues to evolve into a No. 1 receiver". Huh?
#2 May 3, 2009
But wait shouldn't Hester focus on being a mediocre receiver? Why have him return kicks when he's so good at it? In fact, I'd like to see him used as a holder for extra points. Focus on the things you stink at Devin.
#3 May 3, 2009
I'd rather see D. Manning returning kicks again, and yes, with Cutler, I can see Devin turning into that #1 receiver. When he turns on the jets, no one can catch him (if he catches the damn ball, that is.)
#4 May 3, 2009
#1 receiver? In what context...oh, I forgot, our front office doesn't want to draft or sign a real #1. The mediocre talent pool will apparently continue until eternity. Well, Jay welcome to the bears way of doing offensive business.Someone forgot to tell the bears front office that we would like a real receiver for a change.
#5 May 3, 2009
Hester made watching football fun again. It had been awhile since the fans had that. Then management grew a brain, so to speak.
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#6 May 3, 2009
It's May and I could care less who will return punts for the Bears.
We'll soon find out this year the Bears top off-season priority for 2010 season will be to get a top flight receiver.
Notice I said 2010 not 2009. Because Angelo has gambled before when it was so obvious we needed offensive lineman he did not draft or sign a free agent. He has spent the last 2 years rebuilding the line.
He's doing the same thing with the wide receivers 2 years in a row.
This is my last post on Bears. Football season can wait.
Since: Oct 08
#7 May 4, 2009
did anyone stop to think maybe the ball wasn't thrown hard enough or fast enough to really hit his hands right? Or maybe now they can spread the field of play and use Cutlers feet to keep everything alive after the snap! I think the team was pe-od with all the talk of Bobo the clown and not paying attention to or playing like they did the year before, we'll be in the playoffs this year!
#8 May 4, 2009
This coaching staff turned the best ever return man into a non factor.Hester was good for 100 to 300 yards a game.Thanks Dave and Lovie.
#9 May 4, 2009
Orton's gone, so Hester will be much improved at WR.
And of course, like Prime, he can do both.
Isn't it great that Orton is gone!!!!
#10 May 4, 2009
It's a new season...... Why all the negative talk ??
Hell ..... Whether Hester catches EVERY ball or not is immaterial...... The D will have to respect him on EVERY play !!... And THAT's as good as a solid block every time.
With Knox burning down the OTHER sideline, it'll give the opponents fits...... AND leave open the underneath stuff...... Again,.. Knox also doesn't have to catch EVERY ball, but that's TWO defenders now taken out of the play.
We'll be JUST FINE !!
#12 May 4, 2009
why is everybody in here crying just shut up hester will be the #1 rec damn give the man a chance
#13 May 4, 2009
There Bears just drafted THREE receivers, and they drafted two last year, one being a player our new QB is friends with back to his Vanderbilt days.
it is very possible the team has a solid No. 1 in there somewhere, and I am not counting Hester out, either.
Just like Bernard Berrian began to flourish in his third season one the Bears used a QB that could actually throw a deep ball -- if nothing else, as history demonstrated -- Hester should be fine with Cutler.
And people forget that this team has two solid TE, and one with Pro Bowl potential in Olsen.
In fact, you could easily see Olsen and Forte leading the team in catches, but with far better ypc averages and far more catches than last year.
If that is the case, having one WR with around 50 catchers, and another aroudn't 40 isn't that signifcant, if the team is moving the ball.
IOW, stop whining. Cutler has options now.
#14 May 4, 2009
Lovie, clueless as usual. Hester has lost FOCUS on returns because he gets paid 4 having X number of catches and yards as a receiver. Are the Bears really this DUMB?
Moscow, Russia
#15 May 4, 2009
Him as a WR....lmao!
#16 May 4, 2009
umm...why? i haven't seen a kick in awhile that he's returned and looked...hester-like. he has no explosiveness. either his conditioning was bad(unlikely) or he simply doesn't have the energy to do all these tasks AND maintain that elite level of return ability. hopefully he returns to form but if he doesn't...get him away from the punts because he probably goes farther back than forward nowadays.
Since: Dec 07
DuPage County
#17 May 4, 2009
Hester has to earn his money this year. If he doesn't significantly improve at WR, he'd then become the highest paid return man in the NFL.
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#18 May 4, 2009
"Good for our league if players like that are still playing."
"Good for us if players like that are still playing."
#19 May 4, 2009
I'd love to see Devin Hester returning not just punts, but kickoffs as well, again. The thing i wouldn't love to see again though, is that return man posing as Devin Hester last season. I don't think anyone could have imagined such a decline in his return abilities as we saw him have last year. Yes, give me the 06-07 Hester, but that imposter from 08, i'll say no thanks to.
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#20 May 4, 2009
I actually agree with you,nice post. I think alot of this negative craap is coming from Packer & Viking fans. They are Worried & Jealous and they should be! I like the Receivers we have drafted,we will be fine. Now we can send Rashied Davis packing.. Angelo has surprisingly Transformed our weak offense into a possible power house unit. Very impressive off-season,to say the least,I am impressed. We even tried getting Holt and Boldin. I cant wait for the games. We will do our talking on the field! Bear Down. Go Bears,2009 Division Champs!!
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#21 May 4, 2009
It wasnt all Hester! We lost alot of good players on special teams. Devin wasnt getting good blocking like he was back then. When you replay the returns it is obvious the blocking in front of him was not as good. Other teams were doing a good job at making it harder for Devin,as teams prepare for him now. More hang time on Punts was one of the bigger strategies teams seemed to use,that was effective. That allows the players to get down field before Hester can take off. We picked up some good special teams players this year,so we should be better this year. The Bears seemed to target several players with good special teams ability. Take care. Bear Down. Go Bears,2009 division Champs!
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TravelPod Member ReviewsViceroy Santa Monica
This hotel has so much to offer. A gorgeous outdoor dining area that leads into two heated pools surrounded by lounges and cabanas. Marble everywhere and deep lush chairs scattered everywhere.
There is a gym, if you are into that! But I much rather the bar and the food - more my scene.
The service has been fantastic - from the valet to the concierge to the bar staff.
The location has been perfect for us. Far enough from the city that we don't dread going back there (because I'm not feeling LA much) - but close enough to all of the major tourist attractions that we can find them with a little help from the GPS.
Tops hotel experience so far!
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Perfect weekend getaway!
We stayed at the Viceroy Labor Day Weekend 2003 in celebration of our anniversary (without the kids). As most parents know, two nights at the Motel 6 in Barstow would be a treat given that scenario BUT...the Viceroy was excellent from the moment we arrived until way after the giddiness of being kid-free subsided. A sincere welcome from the valet, a bellman who hustled with the bags, a front desk clerk treating us like Hollywood big shots and really really fun lobby/bar interior design. We had drinks in the bar ($12 ketel one martini-consider it the cover charge for people watching)- great service. Had dinner in the restaurant, fantastic! Excellent service, wonderfully prepared food. A bureaucratic idiosyncrasy of the Viceroy's liquor license (that is by now sorted out) required me to taste our wine at the bar and carry the bottle to the table myself. Whatever, that was fun too! But wait there's more! The ocean view room was clean and bright, and those linens! Great bath products too.DVD player in-room was a very nice feature. Beach, shopping Burke Williams day spa - all walking distance.
Will we return? You bet! If you love LA (we do) the Viceroy is almost as good as it gets (at this price range anyway)!
Didn't want to like it but..
Stayed here based on the recommendation of my daughter at university nearby. Walked in and thought "oh no". However, service was polite and attentive, rooms well furnished (with the flat screen TV etc!) though a little small. Had no reservation for dinner on a packed Friday night, but no problem. Barely started the Martinis and a table was ready. Food excellent. Probably not my overall taste in hotels, but hard to fault.
They put theVice in Viceroy
The location is excellent and just a City block walk to the beach. The room was ok but small. The stopper in the tub was not attached so I had to hook it up when I wanted to take a bath. The handle on the hot water faucet fell off a few times. Once when the room was cleaned, they didn't leave any towels and I overhead guests asking for towels too. Don't expect to get a towel by the pool either. You have to wait until they decide to bring them out. Not many people by the pool - mostly women with fake boobs trying to get discovered. The breakfast was pretty good at the restaurant but the buffet at Loews was better and at about the same price plus you get an ocean view. Not many kids here so if you have kids, you may want to opt for Loews. If you have have you own notebook computer, the T1 service was free (for now). The bar had a good female to male ratio so this is a good place for single guys.
Not For The Sighted Crowd
As I did not actually stay at this hotel, my review is strictly limited to the lobby area and amenities. I had a business meeting there with a client. That being said...
I found the decor in the lobby area to be quite unattractive, painted a horrid loud shade of green with the walls covered in what I'm sure management thought was some form of "hip-looking" picture frames, also an ugly green. There was an abundance of seating in the lobby, but it looked uninviting and hard to plop in and out of. One leather sofa in the corner was so worn it looked as though they had dragged it out of a county landfill.
The building itself I found to be rather unimpressive, appearing to be more of a circa-1960s office building than a "luxury" hotel.
But to me, the ONLY reason I'm taking the time to write this review is that when need arose for me to use the men's restroom off the main lobby, I found upon entry that the lights were far too dim to "take care of business," if you will. I asked the staff to turn them up, but they could only apologize to me, explaining they were set "just where the management wants them to be." In fact, further inspection showed that the light switch inside was guarded by a locked plexiglass case.
No amount of logic could sway these pinheads that mood or no mood, a restroom was one of the few places where MOST human beings require sufficient LIGHT: i.e. to freshen up, adjust their appearance, and most importantly, to "hit the proper target" when necessary. Additional gripe: Pretentious faucet fixture installed too close to edge of sink, making it extremely difficult to wash and rinse one's hands.
Perhaps management tried so hard to be different from other hotels that they had to resort to "ugly and senseless" as the only way left to set themselves apart. Clearly run by a champion of the clueless. Highly recommended for the blind, however.
You Have to try it!
This hotel is amazing! I've done a lot of traveling over the past 20 years and I've never had such a wonderful experience. From what I've heard, the hotel used to be a 2-star dump called Pacific Shore and it was completely renovated in 2002. When I first walked into the Viceroy, I honestly gasped. I wasn't expecting anything like what I'd seen! The decor of the lobby was breathtaking, as was the Cameo Bar and the Whist restuarant. Even the pool area has a Hollywood feel! Cabanas, a sundeck and big palm trees make you feel right in the middle of a movie set. Basically, I adore this hotel and will use it for all my CA travels. The food was delicious and the service was wonderful. Now, there is kind of wait for drinks at the bar, but it's worth it. People-watching helps pass the time. (total LA crowd) The rooms all have high speed DSL (thank god!) and frette linens. Comfort, style and class. And the location is to die for. The beach, shopping, restaurants..all in walking distance. I was there for a week and I loved it. You can't go wrong with the Viceroy.
One of the Worst
Unless you are among the terminally hip or tragically bored, Viceroy is not for you. In their desperate quest to add "attitude" (and a snotty one at that), Viceroy forgot about "service". If you're the kind of sucker who thinks being treated like a jerk by some smarmy foreign matre dei' at a way overpriced, way under-serviced Hollywood or NY restaurant of-the-second, then this is the place for you! You'll feel right at home! I thought the days of paying BIG money to be mis-treated were over. I was weong, big-time. Having traveled the world the past 30 years and staying at the world's best hotels, as part of business and pleasure as a journalist in the auto industry, I found the Viceoy a surprisingly bad property. And I want to like the places we go! It's a perk of the job! We were there for the press intro of Toyota's new line of Scion cars. Forget lighting so poor throughout the hotel that a "dark corner" is an oxymoron. Forget the bench in the useless shower being on the wrong side of the shower (you can't stand up under the shower head). Forget usable towel racks in the bathroom. Forget no high speed internet plug-in in the room. Forget virtually EVERYTYHING in the room and bath having a price tag on it, with a snotty note on the bed urging guests to not have their sheets cleaned each night(!). Forget a front desk which can't remember who is paying for your room. Forget a "Zenith" TV and DVD in the room....the worst money can buy. Forget a phone operator who insultingly LAUGHS when you ask for another guest's room who has an unusual-sounding name (at least this desk clerk). Forget a damn alarm clock which doesn't work! Focus instead just on the place's "so serious 'tude" and that should be enough to keep you away.
Fabulous place!
Previous reviewers seem to be reviewing another hotel (actually a motel) called Pacific Shores. The Viceroy is a marvelously restored hotel with beautiful rooms with down comforters and 27" flat screen TVs. Hardly seems even remotely similar to the Pacific Shores that one person reviewed. It also has one of the hottest new restaurants in Southern California. Rooms start at $250 American per night although in off-season/off nights it can be as low as $140. A great place to stay in Santa Monica!
Are you cool enough for Viceroy?
Forget any reviews dated prior to July of 2002. This is a new hotel in the old Pacific Shores bldg. They've done a great job with the renovations, both they guest rooms and public spaces are striking and comfortable. We took advantage of their Spring Fling program which offered early check-in (noon), late check out (3pm) and a $50 credit to the bar and/or restaurant. Everything you have heard about the bar scene at Viceroy is true. When we returned from cocktails across the street at Casa Del Mar, we were stopped by a line of huge guys in suits controlling access to the building. The head bruiser held a clipboard like the doorman at any ultr-hip club and and several hipsters were trying all of their best lines to gain admittance. When we entered the hotel lobby, it barely resembled the room we left two hours earlier. The crowd from the bar spilled over into the lobby and filled the outdoor pool deck. The waiting area for the restaurant was equally busy. The pool area reminded me of a 2004 version of the big party scene in Shampoo. Friday night at the Viceroy is best example of upscale, ultra-hip LA nightlife, with 6ft blonds sipping $12 cocktails in setting better than anything Hollywood could think up. About the food: Whist is a very good restaurant; its not one of the best meals I've eaten or even in my top 10, but it is VERY good. Breakfast the next day, served in the remarkably comfortable pool area, WAS one of the best (breakfast) meals I've ever experienced. To wrap things up: everything about the Viceroy looks good AND is extremely comfortable. The location is 2nd only to the beachfront hotels; Viceroy is directly across Ocean Ave from the beachfront Cas Del Mar and Shutters. The food is better than all but a handful of LA's best and the place is just lots of fun. The lack of a "family" atmosphere is a huge plus for anyone not looking for the Chucky Cheese crowd, but you don't have to be 20-something to enjoy Viceroy. There were plenty of well-off 60-somethings My only significant criticism came at checkout when the desk agent was helpless to fix my double-charged bill. (only the mgr. was able to make the necessary correction and he was not there.) Places this incredibly hot with the hipsters often burn bright but brief - time will tell if Viceroy can maintain it's current level of excitement.steve pburbank, ca
Expensive but fun
I stayed at the Viceroy for just one night and found it to be not only beautiful, but extremely well run.Please note that the two negitive reviews were for the hotel prior to massive renovations and a change in ownership. All the icky, mustiness is gone, replaced by very chic furnishings.The staff was extremely helpful in getting me cabs, however be prepared for some serious snootiness at the Vicroy's restaurant, Whilst. This has become a hot spot for the young, rich, and famous in LA and getting a table is pretty much impossible unless you are A Somebody.
Beautiful hotel
Great place! Expensive, but you get everything that you pay for. Beautiful room, excellent, polite staff, great lobby and pool area... altogether a very nice stay.
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Playing a little bit of catch-up here. We arrived in Los Angeles and went straight to one of our favorite little breakfast/lunch spots in Santa Monica. The food on Copa Airlines was not the best. Checked into the Viceroy and the kids were in bed asleep by seven. We had every intention to go have a drink by the pool and enjoy the cool vibe, but alas …
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Get an overview of this hotel3.5-star Austin hotel in Franklin Park with free parking
Located in Franklin Park, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Austin Department of Veterans Affairs and Mabel Davis District Park. Battle Bend Park and St. Edward's University are also within 2 mi (3 km).
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In addition to an indoor pool, Austin Marriott South provides a spa tub and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge.
This 3.5-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 9800 square feet (910 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers gift shops/newsstands, concierge services, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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It's a sign of English becoming Europe's quasi-official language, Greenlight says.
A consumer in New York will search the web in English, a Berliner in German and someone in Shanghai in Mandarin. At least, that's what marketers might assume. But it's not always the case, suggests a new survey from U.K.-based digital marketing agency Greenlight.
The survey of 500 consumers, mostly in Europe and North America, found 76% at least occasionally search online in more than one language. That's particularly true in Europe where more than 90% of consumers in several major European markets said they have searched in a language other than their own, including 100% of respondents in Belgium, Spain and Italy.
Belgium, which has three official languages, is not surprising, says Adam Bunn, director of search engine optimization at Greenlight. But the reasons for the high numbers in Spain and Italy are not so obvious.
"The fact that Italy and Spain top the chart with 100% of respondents claiming to search in multiple languages, despite reasonably homogenized language use, is possibly a testament to the position of English as the quasi-official language of Europe and the relative prevalence of English-language web pages," Bunn says.
He notes a Greenlight study from 2010 showed that the United Kingdom produced the most web pages per person among European countries at 17, compared with 10 for Spain and six for Italy. "Presumably as well as there being more English spam on the web, this also means there is more high-quality English content to be searched for by Europeans as well," he says.
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Stylish & Hip Laundry Bags perfect & convenient! No more sloppy paper bags, use these and be a trend-setter! Perfect gift for Parents, Family, Teachers, Groups, and Yourself, Christmas & Birthdays !
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