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Until now, the Google Apps suite has felt oddly small, with the core of Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sites, Groups and Video. However, the line between online services used for work and play is increasingly blurred. People using Picasa photo editing for office tasks and Calendar for a social life, so why not place those services under one roof? Big infrastructure changes were apparently needed to make single sign-in possible for so many tools.
"We want to keep innovating and adding more to the suite," Troper said. "Behind the scenes there's been quite a bit of work to get here."
Internet giants are increasingly knocking down walls between personal and professional tools and data. Another crumbling brick came this week, with Facebook Messaging integrating with Office Web Apps. People checking into one hub - whether from Google, Facebook or Microsoft - for social and work-related tasks will certainly discover new TMI moments.
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I don't see the point in trying anymore.I just keep cutting and cutting. My boyfriend is the only reason I don't cut more than I already do. He's my only reason for even trying to try. I'm terrified what's going to happen once he leaves me. Today I actually thought about how once he leaves me I'll be able to cut more...
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we learn something from everyonewho passes through our lives.. some lessons are painful and some are painless .. but all are priceless
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anyone tried Wacom Creative Stylus 2 ?
this looks really interesting... has anyone tried it out? or the older versions?
i have an intous 4, but i never got used to it (or maybe its because i draw like shit), so i think that this might be better.
it doesn't sound expensive to me too
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10/14/2014 3:38:00 PM (last edit: 10/14/2014 3:38:00 PM)
That's really smart! So they put the 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity into the pen to make it work with tablets that may not have that type of quality of screen?
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10/14/2014 3:54:17 PM (last edit: 10/14/2014 3:54:17 PM)
I have the Intuos Creative Stylus 1 and it's great. What 9krausec points out isn't really an issue as the latest IPad has a great high res screen, the biggest issue is not having applications like what we're used to on Windows (Manga Studio and Photoshop). You have pretty good drawing apps (way better then what's available on android) but still it's very limited functionality wise. That said I do know people that do top notch digital paintings on Ipad and if you already have a recent Ipad buying the pen is a small investment and you get a lot for it in return. It's also something that is growing in user base, when the ipad first came out using a stylus was discouraged, now more and more artists start using the ipad for drawing and the apps get better and better.
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Seth are you talking about the bamboo paper app?
I saw in the Wacom website that the app supports all the stylus features, and it's free.
Have you used it? Is that the software that you use to drAw on the iPad?
How bad is the software compared to using an intous with photoshop?
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10/15/2014 5:58:52 PM (last edit: 10/15/2014 5:58:52 PM)
No I'm not talking about the bamboo paper, and free on IPad means everything is done by in app purchases which is always more expensive then the apps that still charge you at download. From what I remember the app is crap.
Anyway, I think I've bought about every drawing app on the ipad (cheap as they are) and there really is only one that is miles above everything else and that's Procreate (http://procreate.si/). It's key feature is speed, it's just very smooth where most of the others are not.
Apps like Artrage have the features but lag even on the newest IPad. There are other good apps but I would have to look up their names as I don't know them by heart. When I get home I'll go through my apps and list some good ones. Inspire Pro and Sketchbook are pretty good for instance.
Funny enough the kids app Drawing with Carl is great as well with great brushes and very simple interface but doesn't support the stylus. There's another one from the same developer called sketches I think (http://www.tayasui.com/tayasui/SketchesApp.html) and that one is good and does support the stylus. My cousin uses it for pro work with fantastic results.
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Thanks Seth for the app summery.
I think I have an iPad 2, so this might be a problem with the new stylus.
Also I think that even if the app is good speed wise, if it doesn't have layers optional, it won't be good for the kind of work I do
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Procreate will work ok, it even works well on my old IPad 1 if the page size isn't to large. It has layer management but pretty simplistic. As a painting app it's great but don't expect any fancy photoshop stuff. Just good brushes and layers. Most painting apps have layers but take into account that you are limited by the memory of your ipad which I'm guessing isn't much.
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Here's one of those beginner projects that I just love. I'm all about making my own tools, even if they can be purchased for a fraction of what it costs me to make them in terms of man-hours. Why? Because I get a renewed sense of satisfaction every time I reach for a tool that I've made. My handmade tools are a constant reminder of how satisfying this hobby can be.
Mike White from the Franklin Technology Center in Joplin Missouri sent in this set of plans for a nifty collapsible scribe. What's neat about this particular scribe is it's ability to collapse down and nest inside itself. It reminds me of those hammer/screwdriver combos where the screwdrivers are nested inside the handle of the hammer. However, like many combination tools the ham-driver was never a good hammer or a good screwdriver. It was a mediocre combination of both. But I digress …
This scribe design solves the problem I have with my current $5 scribe – it protects me from getting jabbed with the point when not in use. Sure my $5 scribe came with a protective rubber tip. But I lost it within a few days somewhere in a pile of swarf. With this setup I'll be able to slip my scribe into my bib overall pocket next to my scale and never poke myself!
My only question for Mike is what method do you recommend to harden the scribe? Keep in mind that people making the scribe may have no experience whatsoever in hardening. So an explanation of the cheapest/easiest/safest technique would probably be best.
Mike also shared plans for a machinists hammer (ball peen style) which I'll post in a few weeks. Thanks for sharing your plans with us Mike!
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[dinadave7] Good night my friends....just wanted to come in for a bit and fellowship before I head off to la la land....we are going to need our strength the next two or three days....rest well and God bless
All, I am hearing all day is all testing is complete, the back doors have been sealed, the last test went flawlessly and we should see this within twenty four hours...meaning anytime in the next twenty four. If we don't...know one knows why. I know of several banks personally that have implemented extended hours starting in the morning... hmmmm....I wonder why? Not because they like to spend money...that's for sure. All I have heard all day is the banks are working overtime to get this done. All the banks participating in this event have notified the ust they are ready
[Cool] Have you heard anything from Chase?
[dinadave7] Cool chase is ready to rock
[sfmhi] dinadave7 - Do you know if there are banks in Hawaii???
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[dinadave7] sfmhi I understand there are five banks in Hawaii that are participating at last count. I will ask around and try to get the names
[johnnyjunk] dinadave7 hey bro - Do you think b of a will really be competitive with the special rate WF appears to be preparing for??
[dinadave7] johnnyjunk - They use WF for their currency exchange...should be the same imo
[$ay_its_over] dinadave7 So this is really happening?
[dinadave7] $ay_its_over - In my opinion.... it is.... if not... no one knows why
[dinadave7] OK gang...got to go....see you on the other side
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March 12, 2017 -- In 1990, while on staff with a car magazine that is no longer around, I stumbled across the biggest find in the Mustang world – the surviving '68 fastback from the movie Bullitt.
This article is a combination of several pieces I've written for magazines over the years. It includes material for the feature that appeared in the April 1990 issue of Mustang Illustrated all the way through the April 2010 issue of Mustang Enthusiast. You will notice that there is some conflicting information in this story, such as the selling price of #559 as it traded hands between the second and third owners. I am quoting interview subjects when I give that information, and they each have different memories of the sale. I leave those minor details in place, unchallenged.
NOTE: With the recent discovery of this car's "twin" in Mexico, I have updated my article to distinguish between the two by the final three digits of their VINs. The Bullitt survivor I've written about for 27 years is now known as "#559." The Mexico car is "#558." – Brad Bowling
The car was a 1968 Mustang 390 GT. The last thing in the world you'd take the green fastback for is a serious collector's item. Gifted with hindsight, it's difficult for us modern-day enthusiasts to consider owning the surviving Bullitt Mustang and thinking of it simply as transportation but, strangely enough, that's exactly how it has been treated by its three owners to this day.
Steve McQueen was a hot property in Hollywood in 1968. He had just completed The Thomas Crown Affair with Faye Dunaway, and he was enjoying the kind of creative leverage every actor works for. Because he wanted more control over the production of his movies, he signed a six-picture contract between his Solar Productions and Warner Bros. The first (and ultimately only) product of that collaboration was Bullitt, based on the novel Mute Witness by Robert L. Pike. Originally optioned by television producer Phil D'Antoni as a "facing retirement" cop role for Spencer Tracy in New York City, McQueen's interest in the project brought about major changes in the script – including the addition of several intense chase scenes. English director Peter Yates, a former club racer who once served as Stirling Moss' race team manager, was hired to helm the movie.
As with most successes, the Bullitt chase scene had many fathers. McQueen, Yates, and the two men credited with writing the screenplay – Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner – have each made claims in interviews that the idea was theirs. Regardless of pedigree, it is a tribute to McQueen's persuasiveness and credibility that the city of San Francisco agreed to the mayhem he proposed for its streets. (Picture the meeting in which negotiations took place: "Okay, Mr. McQueen, you'd like to race two cars through our city at 100 miles an hour; could we interest you in burning down some of our buildings?")
To get McQueen to sign on for the movie, Warner Bros. assumed a tremendous financial risk by giving in to several of the star's demands. McQueen wanted every shot to have the grit and texture of the real 1960s San Francisco scene, which meant that easy shooting in a studio backlot was forbidden. Realism was enhanced by the use of a new Arriflex camera, a lightweight wonder that gave director of photography William Fraker tremendous mobility and flexibility.
Action was captured on celluloid from a Corvette-based chase vehicle known as the "Bullittmobile."
Whether or not McQueen specifically requested his character drive a Mustang is unclear. An ongoing product placement arrangement between Ford Motor Co. and Warner is most likely the reason for the choice. Two Highland Green fastbacks sporting GT packages, 390/4V motors and sequential vehicle identification numbers were shipped to the studio. The cars wore VINs 8R02S125558 and 8R02S125559. Likewise, two new Dodge Chargers were purchased, reportedly with 440-cid motors, for the bad guys to drive. Hollywood car builder and racer Max Balchowsky modified all four cars with extra welding, bracing, suspension, and engine work to handle the heavy abuse. The Mustangs' shock towers were stiffened, and Balchowsky installed heavy-duty front springs, a thicker anti-roll bar and Koni shocks. A power increase came from milled heads and ignition and carb upgrades. Several pieces were removed from the Mustangs, including the driving lights, running pony grille emblem, Mustang lettering, and even the GT badges. Stock wheels were pulled in favor of sportier custom rims from American Racing.
The fastback assigned to jump duty, #558, also received a rollbar-mounted camera so that thrill-seeking moviegoers could get a taste of what it was like to fly through the air above San Francisco's hilly pavement. Not only did #558 get trashed performing the jump scenes, but it was also the car responsible for the fiery destruction of the Charger at the end of the chase. Special towing equipment was mounted to the passenger side of the Mustang and two dummies were placed in the Charger so that, through clever editing, it would look like the Mustang ran the Charger off the road into the gas station where it blew up.
Carey Loftin was the movie's stunt coordinator, with Bill Hickman acting and driving the Charger. Bud Ekins, a motorcycle buddy of McQueen who had doubled for him in The Great Escape, was hired to drive the Mustang during the dangerous downhill sections.
Because #558 was so damaged by the time shooting ended, people behind the movie reported in interviews that it was sent to a junkyard and assumed crushed. (For latest updates on #558, google "lost Bullitt Mustang.")
But what about #559?
The First Owner of #559
An employee of Warner Bros. named Robert M. Ross bought #559 after production finished. When I contacted Ross to interview him for this story in 1990, he politely but firmly told me, "It will be a long time before I talk to anyone about the Bullitt car after the last time." Ross went on to explain that previous interviewers had misquoted him and "printed pure b.s." about the car. When he realized that I had located #559, he offered some information but was still understandably reluctant to agree to a longer interview.
Ross suggested I talk to his friend Bill Norton, who owned Valley Ford Mustang in North Hollywood at the time. Norton is one of the few people who can claim to have driven the Bullitt Mustang when it was new.
"The car was not at all beat up like you might imagine," Norton recalled. "It was very nice because it had not been abused like the Mustang that did all of the jumping.
"It was a fun car to drive," he told me, "very powerful but also very squirrely, especially one rainy night on the Ventura Freeway when Bob and I were going home from a party. It was also really noisy because it didn't have any soundproofing; apparently the movie people had used that car to make the 'live' recordings (that were later dubbed into the soundtrack)."
Ross only kept the fastback for a year or so, according to Norton, before he put it up for sale in Hemmings Motor News.
"It was sold to a cop back east who wanted it shipped to him," Norton said. "I remember that it was sent by train because that was the cheapest way to transport a car back then and the guy was a little on the thrifty side."
It seems that Norton got more from the Bullitt car than just his driving impressions: in a cardboard box at Valley Ford Mustang sat the GT driving lights that were removed before filming. Apparently, they went to Ross along with the car but did not wind up with the second owner.
The Second Owner of #559
For years, no one had a name for the second owner of #559. Ross did not supply it during our brief conversation; Norton couldn't remember it, and no other previously printed material mentioned it. Ross thought that the man might have been a detective (like Frank Bullitt, perhaps) but didn't mention the city or state, only that it was somewhere on the East Coast.
Then, in November 2009, my Gmail account delivered a header that read: Lost Years 1968 Bullitt Mustang – Second Owner. The attached message said, "You found me. I owned the Bullitt Mustang from 1970 to 1974. Call [this number] if you want more details."
Three phone calls and a 10-hour drive later, I was shaking hands with Frank Marranca, the retired detective whose personal archives and anecdotes would quadruple the amount of documentation I now have in my Bullitt files. He would also provide the only photographs anyone has seen of #559 since it slid to a stop on the big screen in 1968.
What follows is my 2009 interview with Marranca. It ran in almost this form in the April 2010 issue of Mustang Enthusiast magazine.
BOWLING: How many times did you see Bullitt before deciding that you wanted to own that very car?
MARRANCA: Twice. My first wife's father worked at CBS News, and he used to show films at his house. He had something like a studio upstairs where we would watch first-run movies. That's where I saw Bullitt for the first time. A friend of his worked for a film company, and he brought these big reels they would use in movie theaters. I mentioned to him once that I would love to own the car Steve McQueen drove in Bullitt.
He flew to California a lot with his job, so he heard the Mustang was for sale and told me. He gave me the number. That was on the weekend. Come Monday morning, I called Robert Ross.
BOWLING: Had you owned any high-performance cars prior to this one?
MARRANCA: When I was in the Marines, I bought a '65 Pontiac LeMans convertible, then later a '65 GTO. I kept that for a few years, picked up a '62 Corvette, which I sold for a '67 Buick Riviera Gran Sport. Then came the Bullitt Mustang.
BOWLING: Was the sale contingent on Ross verifying that this was the actual car from the movie?
MARRANCA: I was convinced, just by talking to him, but I wasn't going to release the money until I saw the car and the paperwork he had sent me. How we worked it out was…he would put the car on a train and ship it through the rails. I would deposit the money in the bank. That money would not be released to his bank until I looked at the car to ensure the car was in substantially the condition he described. He put the car onto the rails on Nov. 10, 1970, and sent me this paperwork that you see here. I went down to Southern Pacific on December 4 to pick it up.
This is a letter from him. It's handwritten in their [Warner Bros.] envelope, postmarked the 18th. In that, I have the original bill of lading, and there is the location where it was sitting in Staten Island. A copy went along with that, and when I picked the car up and authorized the release, I signed for it here, and I had to pay $356.16 [for the transportation].
BOWLING: How much did you pay for the car itself?
MARRANCA: Six thousand dollars.
In the car was the original registration from him, from California. This is the letter of authenticity. This was also in the car – a list showing what was done to the car and how much money they approximately spent [getting it ready to be in the movie].
Also in the car were these photo cards. They would be put inside the movie theater to show what was playing, and this Pressbook was with it.
In an envelope marked "to whom it may concern" was a paid itemized bill for Warner Bros. After shooting the movie, they had Precision Auto Body on Hollywood Boulevard make some repairs to the car. The job cost $920.16 and was finished on Sept. 27, 1968. It included replacing the grille, grille surround, molding, antenna, a knob of some kind (for $4.65), and several other things I can't make out from the handwriting. They also straightened and rechromed both bumpers – all for less than $1,000! Can you imagine how much that would cost today? One thing I didn't get with the car was the shift knob. Somebody had taken it off the car before I received it in Staten Island. That was missing.
In the movie, my car had a small round mirror on the driver's door. [It was painted body color.] I also see round mirrors on some of these replicas people have built, but when I got the car, it had a square mirror.
BOWLING: What condition was the car in when you got it?
MARRANCA: There were no dents, scratches, or rips in the interior. It was a used car, you could tell, but in very good condition.
There was a small piece of tape on the tachometer when I picked it up from the train station. It had the words "little pieces" written on it in pen. It was pointing somewhere between 7,000 and 8,000 RPM. As pre-arranged, I called Ross to tell him I had the car. When I asked about the sticker, Ross told me that McQueen or [car builder] Max Balchowsky had placed it there so McQueen would stay out of the engine's redline. Going over would blow the engine to "little pieces."
The only thing I'm aware of that was altered was that they took out the insulation from the firewall so the noise of the engine would come into the driver's compartment. They had truck mufflers with straight pipes.
If memory serves me, Ross told me that in the trunk, on the left-hand side, there's a hole and a piece of tubing in there. He told me he thought there had been a blower on there to keep the brakes cool. However, I've read lately that it may have been a vent for a generator to keep the camera cool. I don't know which is true.
One of the first things I did to the car was take it to Roger's Speed Shop in Garwood, on South Avenue. Roger Munn put a four-speed Hurst shifter in there. Not long after that, I took it to a place in Elizabeth called Cleveland Auto & Tire on 3rd Avenue. They put Pirelli racing tires on.
I've read something about a Nardi steering wheel being taken off. I don't know anything about that. The steering wheel that was on the car when I bought it is the same steering wheel that was on it when I sold it.
I had a kill switch installed, but I don't remember who did the work. That kill switch was inside the ashtray. When you lowered the ashtray, you pulled out the insert where you would put your cigarettes, and there was the switch. I've read somewhere mentioned there was a switch they thought was for fog lights – I don't know if they are talking about the same switch I'm talking about. Those are the only two things I did to that car.
The first summer I had the car, my wife and I went down to Wildwood, New Jersey. It's a seashore town. We stayed at a hotel on the Wildwood Crest. I engaged the kill switch, and I took the coil wire with me. I was still looking out in the middle of the night to make sure the car was where I left it.
BOWLING: Why did you put in a Hurst shifter?
MARRANCA: I didn't like the four-speed shifter that was in there. It felt sloppy. It made a big difference – much tighter. As for the tires, I had gotten a flat with the Firestones on there.
BOWLING: Did you keep it a secret that you had the actual Bullitt Mustang?
MARRANCA: No. I made no bones about it. If anybody asked me about the car, I told them what it was. At that time, nobody really cared.
BOWLING: Did you keep all of the car's original markings and decals intact?
MARRANCA: Back then, the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles put its inspection sticker on the passenger side of the windshield. Near that spot, the Mustang had a sticker that was about ¾ of an inch wide and two inches long that said "WB," which I suspect was the Warner Bros. sticker that allowed Ross to drive the car on their lot as an employee. It was all the way in the bottom of the glass, and I wanted to keep it intact. You could not see that sticker from anywhere inside the car. You had to be outside the car, looking in, to see it.
The DMV in New Jersey said it was obstructing my vision, and they failed me. I pointed out that I couldn't see it, but I could see their sticker, which was above it. I had to scrape it off, but I could not get all the way into that corner to remove it. They refused to scrape it off themselves. They put a "failure" sticker on. I went home, scraped off their failed sticker, put the California plates back on, and drove it like that.
The following year, I put the Jersey plates back on, took it in for inspection and they gave me a hard time because I scraped their sticker off. They threatened to call the police on me until I explained that I was the police.
BOWLING: It must have been a blast to own the honest-to-goodness Bullitt Mustang. Tell us your favorite memories of your time with it.
MARRANCA: In 1971, Bullitt was playing at the Linden Movie Theater on Wood Avenue. I spoke to the manager and asked he if wanted me to bring the car over on a Friday night. He gave us six free tickets. The car sat outside. Some people showed interest in it. Other people didn't even notice it, just walked right by it.
BOWLING: Were people aware it was the car – not just a green Mustang?
MARRANCA: Some were. I thought they were going to announce it, but they never did. Some of the people I worked with had never seen it before, so they went over to look at it.
At one time, back around 1972, I was assigned to the Narcotics Strike Force of Union County. We had no real undercover cars in the beginning. They were usually unmarked police cars painted different colors. We had a case involving an individual from Mountainside, New Jersey, who allegedly was going to Newark to purchase drugs. I took the Mustang one day, and a couple of other guys in different vehicles followed the car to Newark, where we watched him make his purchase and drive back to Mountainside, where we arrested him. It was fun getting to drive it on the highway.
My wife and I, one Sunday morning, were going to Atlantic City on the Expressway. It was November, and it was cold. A Datsun pulled up next to us and obviously wanted to race. The speedometer was showing 120, and the tach was still rising. I left him in the dust. I never did downshift; I just opened the four-barrel. That was the fastest I ever drove the car. I normally just drove it on the highway.
It was always kept covered in a garage. I would take it out on weekends and drive around with it. It was quite a car to drive, it really was. When I drove the car, it was very tight. When taking corners – like ramps on the parkway – the car didn't lean. It just sat there. I never tried to smoke the tires or burn rubber, but it was a very strong-running car. When you rode in that car, you knew there was something fast under you.
I had police cars that didn't have that much power. I had a '74 Plymouth 440. It was probably the fastest police car I had. If I remember right, it had 160 or 180 on the speedometer. That Plymouth was a monster on the highway. It would just gobble the highway up, but nothing ran like that Mustang that I ever drove.
BOWLING: Was it loud?
MARRANCA: Yes, it was. One time, it failed my DMV inspection because it was too loud. The next time I took it back, it passed, even though I had done nothing to it.
BOWLING: It sounds like you really enjoyed owning it. Why did you sell it?
MARRANCA: My wife at the time said I was being selfish having it in the garage. She had a three- or four-year-old Chrysler station wagon, and she wanted a new wagon. I sold the Bullitt car in April of 1974 and bought a new Chevy Vega station wagon. When I sold the car, it had about 19,000 miles on it. I don't remember how many miles it had when I bought it, but I doubt I put more than 10,000 miles on the car.
BOWLING: How did you go about selling it?
MARRANCA: Road & Track, if I remember right. I put an ad in. I sold it for what I paid for it – $6,000. The car was already six years old. The guy who bought it was the only one who called. When I sold him the car, I gave him some of the paperwork that had come with the car. I kept a lot of it. He never asked me for it. I gave him the California license plates that were on it when I bought it. I remember standing in the middle of the street when he was driving away, thinking, "There goes my car."
I can picture myself standing there now, watching it go away. It was like somebody stole my car.
BOWLING: A few years later, Steve McQueen was trying to locate the car, but you had already sold it. How did he find you?
MARRANCA: I was working sex crimes in 1977. I had come in off the road, and there was a phone message to "call Mr. McQueen." I called the number. I had no idea who it was, because we would get calls from all over the United States concerning cases.
The girl answered the phone: "Solar Productions."
I said, "Detective Marranca for Mr. McQueen."
She said, "Oh, you're the detective who has the Bullitt Mustang." I remember taking the phone from my ear, looking at it, and putting it back to my ear.
I said, "Steve McQueen?" I felt like a little kid, you know?
I gave them the information to find the third owner. They called me back to tell me he wouldn't sell the car. I still have that information somewhere. I haven't looked that hard to find it, but back then I had a complete file of papers that included the contact information for the guy I sold it to.
They followed up by sending me a nice letter and an autographed picture. They sent that voluntarily; I didn't have to ask for it. The ink on the photo is faded now because it sat in my office for 20 years until I retired.
That contact with McQueen was the last time anybody asked me about the Bullitt Mustang until you showed up.
The Third Owner of #559
In 1974, a 24-year-old man got the bargain of a lifetime when he happened upon Bullitt Mustang #559, with documentation, for what he says was "an unbelievably low price." Because he would become a successful businessman and had no intention of selling the car or considering any offers, I promised him total anonymity in exchange for his cooperation. Let's just call him "Joe."
Joe provided several pages of documentation, including copies of the first owner's card (registered by Bob Ross on Dec. 14, 1968, license plate VVE 590) and the latest (registered by "Joe" in his home state on March 7, 1978, license plate 850 IPZ). Both cards gave the vehicle identification number as 8R02S125559, which matches the number from the Warner Bros. letter. (Years later, Marti Auto Works verified for me that this car and its twin, VIN 8R02S125558, were initially shipped to the same office in Southern California as were a few other "movie" Fords.)
Joe told me in 1990 he had not actually seen the car in almost six years because it was stored in a relative's garage on the East Coast, several states away from where he was living. He was surprised to hear that his car had been the source of such speculation. Joe was not a hardcore Mustang enthusiast and told me his interest in the car was a combination of the low asking price and the fact that a major movie star had driven it.
Joe's anecdotes about driving the car back up Bill Norton's stories about it being a real handful and noisy at any speed. In fact, during a rainstorm, Joe did some Frank Bullitt-style driving when he lost control of the fastback and slid 360 degrees around, resulting in some minor body damage.
According to Joe, he had made no changes to the car and, in 1990, it had approximately 40,000 miles on the odometer.
"Otherwise," he told me, "the engine compartment, interior and paint all look original."
Despite the fact that he wasn't driving it any more, he insisted it would never be for sale.
UPDATES: 1997, 1998, and 2000
I contacted Joe three or four times by phone since breaking the story in 1990 but was unable to convince him to share #559 with the general public.
When I met Steve McQueen's son Chad in 1997 while visiting some friends in Malibu, Chad asked me about the car. I showed him Joe's paperwork (while maintaining Joe's anonymity) and Chad became enthusiastic that something could be done to get the car into the open. I phoned Joe and discussed possibilities Chad had raised – such as the McQueen family buying it and promising that no one would reveal the owner's name or whereabouts – but I could not move him from his position.
A year later, I called Joe at the request of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, which was celebrating Bullitt's 30th anniversary with a special exhibit of period clothes and movie memorabilia. Hoping against hope to borrow #559, my contact at the museum even offered to have board member Jay Leno phone the owner.
When I reached Joe, he did not want to discuss #559, which he had relocated twice in the 10 years since our first talk. It had been stored in his father's garage in 1990, before being moved to a horse farm where it spent a few years in a barn. While there, a worker on the property told a Mustang enthusiast about a hidden green fastback that had a history. From the description, the Mustanger suspected it was the Bullitt car and snuck onto the grounds to take some pictures without permission. Joe told me he had dealt with the employee who allowed this to happen, then moved the car to the garage in his Tennessee home, where it was sitting next to his Porsche as we talked. He thanked me for keeping his identity a secret but once more declined to consider any offers to show the car.
The Petersen built its display around Dave Kunz's replica of the movie car.
On May 1, 2000, I happened to call Joe on the day of his son's 16th birthday. He told me I was no longer the only person who knew about the car because the producers of the first Charlie's Angels movie had tracked him down. It seems Drew Barrymore wanted her character to drive the honest-to-goodness Bullitt Mustang.
This exchange did not sit well with Joe because, "They would not take 'no' for an answer!"
According to Joe, the producers called him at home and at work and even sent gifts to his house in an attempt to change his mind. Their offer grew to include money, a trip to Hollywood, and dinner with Ms. Barrymore. Joe, whose privacy is apparently quite precious to him, finally threatened the movie makers with legal action if they did not stop bothering him.
He said he was dedicated to keeping the car's existence secret because his son wanted to "clean it up and start driving it now that he's getting his license."
Before I let him off the phone, Joe promised he would consider showing the Bullitt car to the public if and when an official Mustang museum was built.
"Otherwise," he declared, "it's staying in the garage!"
That was the last time I heard from Joe.
UPDATE: May 2007
During a roundtable interview for a Bullitt-oriented podcast for themustangsource.com, Dave Severin of Columbia Pictures told me (and the audience) that he had also tracked down #559 and verified that we had been in touch with the same third owner. Brad Barnett was the host of the discussion, and Dave Kunz was the third panelist for the talk. I have been unable to locate a recording of that podcast.
UPDATE: August 2015 -- Meet "Fred"
In August 2015, I received an email from one of Joe's friends, asking if I knew the latest information on Joe and #559. I arranged a phone call to... let's call him "Fred"... who graciously provided me 45 minutes of his time for an interview.
He started by letting me know that Joe had been struggling with a chronic disease for a decade, and he died in 2014. Fred had only spoken to Joe a few times over the final 10 years of Joe's life and was prompted to contact me when he saw an old article I wrote for a magazine. (He couldn't remember which article.)
Fred spoke to me from his memory, and he noted several times that he might be remembering a few things wrong after so many years. I am reporting his comments here, because they come from someone who drove and rode in #559 from 1974 through 1980. According to Fred's recollection...
- Fred told me that Joe was "anything but a recluse" when he bought #559 in 1974. Joe was just starting his career, making about $12,000 a year, when he bought #559 for $3,200 from Frank Marranca. Joe drove #559 as his everyday car until 1980, when a job transfer relocated him from New Jersey. Fred and his wife rode in #559 many times with Joe and his wife. Fred drove #559 many times.
- "It was referred to as the 'static car.' It had been repainted a number of times, and not very well. It looked nice. The body was straight, but the movie studio must have dinged it up. It had a Hurst shifter with a big white knob on the top, which is different from what I read about the car when it was in the movie. The action on the shifter was fantastic."
- "Joe was enamored with the Warner Bros. parking sticker on the windshield. It made him feel good about the car's authenticity. Back then, there was no Marti Report to verify this. The second owner had all this documentation to prove its history, including some audio tape the studio had made of the car's exhaust sound for the movie."
- "What I remember, Brad, is not that the car was fast -- there were a million fast cars back then -- but it was really, really tight and incredibly responsive. The car had iron brackets welded underneath that were probably installed to hold cameras, but I think they helped with the stiffness, as well."
- "It just wasn't a big deal when Joe got it that it was the Bullitt car. It was just slightly more interesting than having a regular Mustang. But it handled like a current foreign sports car. Whatever they did to that suspension was very different from stock. I had a 390 '68 fastback Mustang. It was like driving around in a bath tub compared to this car."
- "After he had had it about a year, Joe had an accident with it. He spun out and smashed the ass-end into a tree. It was repaired by an excellent body shop in Summit, New Jersey. The car came out better after the accident. They painted it perfectly. He didn't get it totally repainted, but a lot of the repaired areas were in the rear."
- "You made reference in an article to a hole in the trunk... a rotted area. I don't remember that, so that may have been covered up with a piece of metal. Joe raised Great Danes. He used to fold the seats down and put the dogs in there. There was no hole there that the Danes could have accessed. It was all carpeted like you would expect. It wasn't rotted out or anything."
- "Can you imagine trying to put Great Danes in the back of a Mustang fastback? I wound up with one of their dogs, which is good because the car they drove when they weren't driving the Bullitt was an MGB GT!"
- "Joe was more of a mechanical guy; I was more of a body guy. He had Alfa Romeos. He was always dealing with these GTVs and racing them. He knew cars. The only thing I remember him mentioning is that the Bullitt had something unusual with the distributor. I don't know if it had dual points... they didn't have electronic distributors then, but Joe said whoever set up the car had done something very effective with the distributor. From the outside, the engine looked dead stock. It didn't have a dress-up kit or anything."
After the discovery of Bullitt #558 in Mexico, a zombie of a theory has stirred back to life that there were three identical Mustangs used in the movie. I am here to put a bullet in that zombie's brain. (Or whatever one does to kill a zombie; I don't follow that genre.)
Since people enjoy a good mystery and treasure hunt, the three-car story has gained traction in social media during the run-up to the movie's 50th anniversary in 2018. There is no evidence to support this claim. No one I interviewed for my stories ever suggested there were three cars. Kevin Marti searched his Ford production database for a third Highland Green fastback that would have been delivered to the same California D.S.O and never found one.
So, why the memory of a third car?
I pored over 27 years of notes about #559, and I solved that mystery from scribblings on a piece of scrap paper. When I interviewed Robert Ross in 1990, he told me, "After I bought it [#559], the studio rented it from me for a day for some final shooting." We know that Warner Bros. refurbished #559, which returned the factory driver-side mirror and radio antenna (among many other body repairs), before selling it to Ross. The completion date on Precision Auto Body's repair order is Sept. 27, 1968. With Bullitt making its premiere just 20 days later (on Oct. 17), I doubt the cleaned-up #559 has much, if any, screen time. Perhaps it was simply photographed for marketing materials or for scenes in the "Making of" documentary or movie trailer.
However it was used, I suspect this rental Ross mentioned accounts for the recollection of a third Mustang.
SIDEBAR – Bullitt Trivia
- For his role as Frank Bullitt, Steve McQueen was voted World Film Favorite by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
- Because "Bullitt" production went well over the studio's budget, Warner ended the six-picture agreement with Solar.
- Many studio-owned cars were used in the film to interact with the Mustang and Charger and it is possible to see some of them over and over if you know what to look for. The most obvious repeats are: a yellow cab, a white '68 Firebird hardtop, a green Volkswagen Beetle, a four-door Cadillac and numerous Mustangs. Beside supplying realistic street scenery, company-owned vehicles were placed alongside the road to "catch" the Mustang or Charger in case they lost control.
- Through the miracle of movie-making, the Charger loses a total of eight hubcaps during the chase scene.
- Steve McQueen's letter attempting to buy back the Mustang is dated Dec. 14, 1977, one month after McQueen and his second wife Ali MacGraw divorced.
- Three years after attempting to buy back the Bullitt Mustang, Steve McQueen died of cancer. His collection of cars, motorcycles and antique toys survived intact for many years in the hands of his son Chad.


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"I went to the bathroom & lost my ego". This social network does- to paraphrase a UK advert strap line-"what it says on the tin" without the inane comments apparently found on other SNs. Where did I come across WiserEarth? Probably from a link on Bioneers or Rocky Mountain Institute sites. Why do I participate? My background is in environmental landscaping & my future is in inspiring sustainable thinking, so it makes the obvious home to find like minded people & discuss ideas. It actually allows what the prime benefit of the internet is- that of communication & research. I'm impressed by the quick response time from the editors. The potential for influence from such a large group of people across the globe is phenomenal.
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The 2010 America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coins mark the first year of the 11-year fifty-six coin program designed to showcase the beauty of the United States. Coins in the series are scheduled to be released at a rate of five per year until 2021 when the last strike will appear. The 2010 coins of the program and the order in which they will be issued are:
Arkansas – 2010 Hot Springs National Park Silver Bullion Coin
Wyoming – 2010 Yellowstone National Park Silver Bullion Coin
California – 2010 Yosemite National Park Silver Bullion Coin
Arizona – 2010 Grand Canyon National Park Silver Bullion Coin
Oregon – 2010 Mount Hood National Forest Silver Bullion Coin
All five 2010-dated coins of the America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin series went on sale on December 10, 2010. Like all bullion products of the US Mint, they were initially sold to the Mint's network of authorized purchasers. Within three weeks, the purchasers had ordered the entire 2010-dated bullion mintage (33,000 of each coin). Coins were then re-sold to the public in the following months.
The silver bullion coins were authorized by the America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008. As the name of the act implies, it also created a series of circulating quarter dollars. In fact, both of these programs are to be run in a similar fashion to the previous 50-State Quarter Program from the United States Mint which ran from 1999-2008 (with the D.C. & U.S. Territories program in 2009).
One of the main stipulations of the act which created the bullion coins requires that the images on them be "exact duplicates of the quarter dollars issued." As such, the obverse (heads side) of each of the coins will contain a portrait of George Washington, the First President of the United States. His image has been on the quarters since 1932 with the original artwork being completed by John Flanagan. When the 50-State Quarters were released, the Flanagan portrait was slightly modified by William Cousins. That same design will be used on this new series.
The reverses (tails side) are to feature designs emblematic of a national park or other site of national interest. In order to adequately disperse the selected locations, only one was allowed per state, the District of Columbia and the five U.S. Territories totaling 56 new strikes. The order of each coins release is based on the order upon which that site came under the direct control of the federal government.
Aside from the obverse and reverse designs being identical to those found on the circulating quarters, the bullion coins will be different in several ways. First, instead of being struck from clad, these bullion coins will be struck from five ounces of .999 fine silver. Second, with that much metal in them, these coins will have a diameter of three inches making them the largest bullion pieces produced by the Mint. Third, since the obverse and reverses need to be identical, the coin's weight and fineness will be edge inscribed on each piece.
Some details on the 2010 America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin sites that were chosen is shown below:
Hot Springs National Park
Known as the "the Valley of the Vapors" by Native Americans for centuries long before being "discovered" by European settlers, the Hot Springs area (located in the state of Arkansas) is thought to have been a peaceful location where tribes came together to enjoy the waters. It first came to the attention of others in 1541 when explorer Hernando DeSoto and his group ventured into the area.
In 1832, the United States Congress officially set aside the land as a reservation area giving it federal protection. This marked the first time the US Government had reserved part of the country for public use, with the intent to prevent its destruction or abuse by private individuals.
The next few decades found the area both enjoyed and yes, abused, by those interested in its benefits and the people who wanted to get rich off of them. Hot spring water (which averaged 143 degrees) was diverted and directed to several bathhouses which where constructed to provide a place for paying customers to enjoy the water, after it had been cooled some.
Yellowstone National Park
Native Americans had lived in the area for millennia before white explorers ever ventured near Yellowstone. In the early 1800's, the famous Lewis and Clark expedition would pass by but chose not to investigate. For the next several decades only a few fur trappers would experience the natural wonders that the Indian tribes had known for thousands of years.
In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the law creating Yellowstone National Park. This marked the first time a park area was created for the protection of its natural resources.
Eventually, the U.S. Army established Camp Sheridan (later renamed Fort Yellowstone) and started policing and caring for the area. When the Army turned over control to a new National Park Service in 1918, many of these policies were adopted for use by the new agency.
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park in California is best known for its waterfalls, granite cliffs, ancient giant sequoias, deep valleys, and grand meadows. The park has nearly 1,200 square miles of natural beauty.
Around 10 million years ago, the Yosemite area was uplifted and tilted, forming the relatively gentle slope of the land. Then, around 1 million years ago giant glaciers started to contour the massive valleys out of the granite hills.
The Yosemite Grant was signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864, setting aside the land for public use. However, it failed to protect the area as much as was hoped because it left control to the State of California. Powerless to evict homesteaders, the board controlling Yosemite achieved little to aid the fragile area.
Grand Canyon National Park
"Modern man" would first discover the beauties of the Grand Canyon in 1540 when Captain Garcia Lopez de Cardenas and his Spanish solders would visit the area along with some Hopi Indian guides. Not being what they were searching for, the Spanish soldiers left and it would be over 200 years before the area would be "discovered" again.
It was not until the mid 1800's that explorers made any meaningful advances in understanding the area. Several expeditions, some of the military in nature, were dispatched in the 1850's but the most scientifically credible one occurred in 1869, with an expedition led by Major John Wesley Powell. Powell was an accomplished explorer who took nine men and four boats down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. He repeated his trip again in 1871, creating a detailed map of the river and had multiple photos taken of the area.
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt visited the area and was decidedly impressed. He took the first steps to protect the Grand Canyon by making it a Federal Game Preserve in 1906. However, he, along with other area supporters, was not happy with the protection this afforded and made it a National Monument in 1908.
Mount Hood National Forest
The snow-clad volcanic peak of Mount Hood, a very popular mountain climbing destination, can be seen from the Portland metropolitan area. It is just one of the many distinctive geographic features of the Mount Hood National Forest. Other popular spots in the forest include the Columbia River Gorge, Multnomah Falls, and Barlow Road of the Old Oregon Trail. Mount Hood National Forest has over four million visitors annually, making it one of the most-visited National Forests in the United States.
Mount Hood received its name in 1792 when Lt. William Broughton named the peak after Lord Samuel Hood, a respected admiral of the British Royal Navy.
The area was first placed under the protection of the federal government in 1892 as the Bull Run Forest Reserve. In 1908, Bull Run was merged with Cascade National Forest and the two became the Oregon National Forest. Finally, in 1924, the whole area was renamed Mount Hood National Forest.


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This is a video of Michael Shuman playing this bass in the Queens Of The Stone Age on The David Letterman Show in 2007. The item can best be seen 2:50 into this video. He has used this item most often during the release of their fifth full length studio album, Era Vulgaris, released on June 8, 2007.more
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WASHINGTON -- Last Sunday -- football time in America, 9 p.m. in Kabul -- U.S. bombs and missiles began to fall on Afghanistan, some with words of remembrance or indignation scribbled in chalk.
The spelling on one bomb was a bit off but the message was clear enough: "Highjack this."
A week later, a country that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said was largely rubble even before the United States attacked is more so. To what effect remains to be seen.
The United States and its foes are engaged in a monumental exercise of hide-and-seek in a nation almost the size of Texas, stuffed with mountains like the Rockies.
So far the effort has not yielded Osama bin Laden or his band of terrorists, as far as Americans know. President Bush claimed, "We got them on the run," but said he did not know if bin Laden was dead or alive.
For all its ferocity, the campaign amounts to less than what the United States and its allies delivered in the opening rounds over Yugoslavia in 1999 and Iraq in 1991.
About 90 sorties were flown in the first four days over Afghanistan, nearly half by heavy bombers. There were 10 times more flights in the same period over Serbia and Kosovo, and 50 times more over Iraq.
Much of the bombardment has come from aircraft carriers hundreds of miles from landlocked Afghanistan.
Many Navy aircraft need midair refueling several times on one trip, and pilots on the carrier USS Enterprise say they have spent eight hours in the air on missions that took less than two over Yugoslavia. Bombers have flown above the reach of most anti-aircraft fire and the soldier-borne surface-to-air missiles that Afghans have -- or had -- in ready supply.
With no U.S. or British combat planes lost so far, Rumsfeld said the strikes had weakened the Taliban military and damaged its air defenses; disrupted Taliban communications "somewhat"; and "worked over a number, if not all, of their terrorist training camps."
Nonetheless, he said, "Threats clearly still exist."
Rumsfeld described various aspects of the enemy as "weakened somewhat." How that happened:
--Oct. 7, U.S. and British forces launched cruise-missile and bombing strikes under the cover of darkness, pounding air defenses and command centers.
--Monday, an additional heavy round of nighttime raids went after terrorist camps, early warning radars, anti-aircraft guns, airfields and Taliban aircraft on the ground. Four U.N. contract employees near a targeted radio transmission tower and munitions dumps were killed.
--Tuesday, the United States proclaimed virtual command of the sky over Afghanistan and struck in daylight for the first time.
Six targets, including airfields and anti-aircraft missile encampments near the capital of Kabul, were targeted. The Pentagon said 80 percent of targets so far had been damaged or destroyed, a claim that could not be independently verified.
--Wednesday, narrowing their focus to underground command centers, aircraft dropped 5,000-pound, laser-guided "bunker-buster" bombs. U.S. officials said Taliban troops were bombed.
The Taliban said at least 200 people were killed when missiles struck the village of Karam; the claim could not be independently verified.
--Thursday, the first daylight raid on Kabul took place. In all, U.S. forces struck six areas that included garrisons, motor vehicles and ordnance depots.
--Friday, bombs fell before dawn north of Kabul, near the front line of the struggle between Taliban soldiers and opposition forces. Long-range bombers took a break on the Muslim holy day.
--Saturday, strikes blasted an area around Kabul's airport, and the Pentagon admitted one bomb had missed its target and hit a civilian area nearby.
A Taliban official said the airport for the southern city of Kandahar, the regime's stronghold, was hit, and the private Afghan Islamic Press reported attacks against a military base outside Kandahar.
Michael O'Hanlon, military expert at the Brookings Institution, said it may be possible for opposition forces, with the cover of U.S. planes, to take Kabul and other centers soon.
But in going after bin Laden and his terrorist network -- the core goal in responding to the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States -- O'Hanlon said, "there's no sign of any progress."
"That's not surprising," he said.
"That takes luck, it takes patience. That may take more than a year or two. That may never work."
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"Since a couple of years now, shooting film has become my passion in photography. When I was a child I loved to pick up film- and photo cameras. In almost every holiday film photos my dad made back in the days you could always hear me whispering in the background (thinking the camera would not pick it up) "Dad, can I film?!"
When the photography education started I was instantly drawn into photographing with film. The feeling I get when processing film myself and seeing the final result is something digital has never done to me. It has gone so far that whenever I pickup a digital SLR all that comes out is crap: film makes me look for those special moments instead of just snapping away on a 32GB card."The latest serries he has recently finished is "KW2" about a small fisherman's boat, of three men, who fish off the coast at Scheveningen, The Netherlands.


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Wow, I have quite a few new followers here and on Facebook! Where did you all come from all of a sudden? Well, don't go anywhere! I like to see the numbers go up and get a little sad if I see the numbers go down.
I have been MIA for the past few days working on invites and somewhat staying away from my craft room. By choice at some moments and by pure exhaustion other times. Today was supposed to be the day I finished those pesky little invites I have been working on for quite some time now. Instead I sit in front of the TV pizza in hand with hubby next to me watching season 3 of Dexter! Oh that Dexter!
I just wanted to get in a quick hello before I hit the bed for the night. I really hope to be done and have pictures of the invitations up tomorrow. I better, they will be in the mail no later than Saturday!
Thursday, July 14, 2011
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The Joker's Defaced Dark Knight Trailer!
by Alex Billington
April 30, 2008
If you were following the Joker's trailer hunt on Monday for The Dark Knight viral, you may have heard that one winner in each of the 12 cities received an actual 35mm copy of the new trailer. Besides being a pretty damn nifty gift, given studios usually never let anyone keep any actual film prints, everyone was excited that it featured the awesome new trailer. Unfortunately we won't be able to see a high res version of that new trailer until Sunday, however something interesting was discovered on the reels - every last frame has been defaced by the Joker!
This was first discovered on the London print over at Chris Presswell's blog. You can check out his site, which features photographs of nearly every last frame. Apparently each frame was drawn on by hand (which seems like a LOT of work if they did this 12 times over) and most of it is the typical defacing we see on sites like TheHaHaHaTimes.com. Now the next step would be to actually play it in a projector - and thankfully some guys have done this!
The following video (courtesy of byte19 on SHH) is a taped projection of the Chicago reel - check it out. No one knows whether there is any secret code yet, but goons are currently search for new clues as we speak!
We don't know what the next part of the viral marketing game will be, but we do know that the new trailer will officially be out on Sunday. As always, we'll be following this viral game as it progresses and will always keep everyone updated on the latest happenings. If you don't care to continue to follow it, then please ignore our updates! I'm excited to see what happens next, because it keeps getting better and better…
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WWII German Pilots Sit Parachute With Card And Map
A nice WWII German pilots sit parachute (Sitzfallschirm 30 I S24). I bought this chute last year along with another German parachute from a vets family. It looks to be fairly complete and comes with it card and a map of the area around Poland. This would be a nice addition to any luftwaffe collection.
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Tropik Alabalik Restaurant
Ulupinar, Turkey
Tropik Alabalik Restaurant Ulupinar Reviews
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Shaded by trees and cooled by water Aug 28, 2011
The Tropik is located right by the river (like most fish restaurants in Turkey) under lots of trees. the tables are all build sitting on the water, so it is nice and cool, when everything around you is very hot. There are only a few tables with "real" chairs, most of them are Turkish comfy style.
They have a very large menu - far more than just fish. I do find it a little pricey, but average for those type of restaurant. The food was very good, however you pay extra for appetizers and salad (not common in Turkey - only in the fancier places) The whole are is fairly large. They bake their bread right there - which I really loved. Fresh bread from the oven is nice to have. The service was really nice, even though I was bit appealed that the men just started talking to my guest, as she was obviously not Turkish. They would never to this to Turkish women. But, they were not annoying. There was also a small playground and the woods for walking right in the area.
It is located on the way to Chimera -coming from Antalya - so I think it is nice stop on the way to see the Fire on the Mountain.
Oh - one last thing: ASK FOR A TURKISH MENU - the exchange rate is one to one on their menu !!!
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About: Royal Lancaster Infirmary Royal Lancaster Infirmary Lancaster LA1 4RP
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I am disgusted with the a&e department. My son in law has bowel cancer and lund mets, I am a nurse and know what this means he was admited on 18/2/2010 I rang them as my daughter was very upset as she didnt know what was happening, I live so far away and could not be there for her rang to speak to her to see if I should go over and all I got from a male member of staff was this is not a mobile ill tell him you called. My poor daughter was all on her own. I will be speaking to a doctor in the morning. This is not good enough
What could be improved
interpersonal skills
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a little more understanding of the fact that I could not get in touch with my daughter and she was all on her own
Response from Royal Lancaster Infirmary 7 years ago
Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. We are sorry that the service that you received did not meet the high standards that we aspire to achieve. Your comments will be passed onto the staff involved for this area.
You mention in your comments that you intended to telephone the Doctor involved, if you need any further help or information please call our confidential Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS). They can be contacted on 01539 795 497.
Should you wish to make a complaint then you can do so by writing to our Chief Executive, Tony Halsall, at: Trust Headquarters, Westmorland General Hospital, Burton Road, Kendal, LA9 7RG.
The Complaints Team and the Chief Executive can be contacted at the address indicated above or by ringing 01539 795 332. More information can be found on our website: http://www.uhmb.nhs.uk
We place great value in the fact that local people continue to choose our hospitals and we openly encourage patients and visitors to give us their feedback. This will enable us to continually improve the services we offer and the experience our patients have whilst in our hospitals.
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Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen have announced that they are designing a men's fashion line.
According to Vogue, the twins have decided to introduce some key menswear pieces into their existing women's fashion franchise The Row.
"When we looked in the men's market, we couldn't really find basics you could wear with designer - the same concept as our women's," Ashley is quoted as telling WWD.
"So we started the process with pants and blazers, because we knew it would take time to get that right."
The actress revealed that the line will be inspired by their favourite designers, including Lanvin and Tom Ford, and will be marketed towards an "older, masculine man".


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Warning: Who is calling you this Christmas?
The Jersey Fraud Prevention Forum (JFPF) is warning Islanders to be aware of who is calling them this Christmas as it could well be a fraudster. Telecommunications providers JT and Sure, both active members of the JFPF, are raising awareness about Wangiri Fraud. This is when fraudsters call your number but only ring once before … Continued


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SHE'S BAAAACK! ... AND INCITING REVOLUTION – For the past two years, Uncensored has been following the saga of the broom-sweeping Time magazine-cover-adorning, butt-kicking, (former) Chancellor of D.C. Schools Michelle A. Rhee. In November, her boss, Washington,D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty, who kept his promise to cover her politically if she just did what she had to do, lost his political bid for a second term. A few weeks later, D.C.'s American Federation of Teachers' (AFT) union leader George Parker, who, after two years of fighting,finally agreed to Rhee's evaluation-oriented teacher contract, also lost his race for a second term. Rhee decided to resign, defiantly."There was a complete lack of accountability in the city's school system when I came; I changed that, and I intend to keep on fighting nationally," she said at a luncheon her last day on the job – the same day the movie Waiting for Superman came out featuring some of her brazen successes. In a Time cover story in December, her plan was revealed. Rhee has started a national education "movement"called "Students First." "Unions do a great job doing what they have to do to advocate for their teacher members. Now I intend to do the same for students," Rhee announced. She hopes to sign up one million Students First members and raise $1 billion in the first year.
CHINA UP, INDIA DOWN, SOME GOING HOME– Students from all over the world came to the United States in record numbers in AY 2009-10, reaching an unprecedented total of almost 700,000 (690,923). "This year's growth was primarily driven by a 30 percent increase in students from China– many of them undergraduates – making up almost 18 percent of the total international student population," according to Open Doors,the annual report from the Institute of International Education (IIE). The surge also made China now the top sending country,replacing India. Mexico, which was No. 7 last year, no longer was in the top 10. As usual, a majority of the international students are graduates and study in the STEM fields. But a Duke University study found that a growing number of first- and even second-generation India-heritage students are returning to their homelands as their emerging economy and investments in new universities and research increase substantially. "It's gone from Brain Drain, to Brain Gain, to Brain Balance to now Brain Circulation," said IIE Vice President Peggy Blumenthal.
HELICOPTER PARENTS BECOME VELCRO PARENTS? – You've heard of"helicopter parents" – the ones seen day and night hovering over their children in every endeavor. Now we have "Velcro parents," the ones who cannot detach when their kids go off to college. Even college presidents are not immune, admitted Haverford College's chief in a November Washington Post editorial. It's a "realignment process," writes Stephen Emerson: one goes from over-head hovering, to side-by-side guidance, to the young autonomous adult taking the lead.
TEMPTING CONSERVATIVE HISPANICS– Hispanics are being feted,recruited and supported by political parties as never before, and some are finding success with the GOP. Five new Hispanics in the 112th Congress are Hispanic, as of course is the first Latina governor in the United States – Susana Martínez of New Mexico. In December, Americano, the conservative bilingual organization founded by former Congressional Speaker Newt Gingrich, held its first annual Forum in D.C. It featured former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Carlos Gutiérrez (former secretary of commerce), and journalist Rubén Navarrette,among others. Conservative views were shared on panels about education, health care, immigration, grass-roots organizing and the media. Presenters agreed that while U.S. Hispanics are widely diverse, they shared pride in the growing success of Latino heritage music, food and culture in the U.S. "The best way to reach the growing Hispanic intergenerational community in the future may be through media oriented to specific Latino interests – in English," said Navarrette.
SCOTUS LAW CLERKS LACK ACADEMIC DIVERSITY – The golden ticket for any law degree graduate is to secure a one-year clerkship at the Supreme Court of the United States (aka: SCOTUS). Each of the nine justices usually hires up to five clerks every year.They seek law school grads who are capable of doing brilliant research and writing first drafts of history-making opinions that will set precedent and will impact Americans in every corner of the land. Yet more than 50 percent of the SCOTUS clerks come from only two East Coast law colleges: Harvard and Yale – "coincidentally" the only two law colleges from which all the present nine justices graduated. Another 25 percent of chosen clerks have graduated from only four other universities: Virginia, Stanford, Columbia and Chicago.Only Judge Clarence Thomas looks beyond the Ivy League for his clerks, according to Todd C. Peppers, public affairs professor at Roanoke College and author of a book about Supreme Court clerks, Courtiers of the Marble Palace.
Margaret (Peggy Sands) Orchowski was a reporter for AP South America and for the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. She earned a doctor-ate in international educational administration from the University of California-Santa Barbara. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she was an editor at Congressional Quarterly and now is a freelance journalist and columnist covering Congress and higher education.