The luckiest Barbie of all! Cali Girl Barbie, she had Blaine and Ken fighting over her for a time, Blaine won! and then she went back to her old love...Ken!

Castle Apartments (1925). St. Louis, Missouri.

Memory Metaphor

For some reason I always had a bit of an affinity towards these cars, largely due to the fact that they seemed to be smiling with those light clusters. But much like the Maestro, it had purpose, it was innovative, and it was a car that refused to die!

 

The Austin Montego first started development life way back in 1977 under project code LC10 (Leyland Cars 10), as an intended replacement for the Morris Marina and the Princess. However, like many of the company's promising projects, such as the Maestro and the Metro, it was shelved for years on account of the fact that British Leyland ran out of money! After a corporate bailout by the British Government, the company chose instead to prolong the development of these cars and instead simply give the existing Marina and Princess a facelift, resulting in the Morris Ital and Austin Ambassador, both cars notable for being unimpressively bland masterpieces.

 

However, this delay did give British Leyland a chance to tie up with Honda, and in 1980 launched the Triumph Acclaim as both the first Japanese/British hybrid car, but also British Leyland's first consistently reliable product! The result was that both the simultaneously developed Austin Maestro and Montego could take some leaves out of Honda's book and therefore improve the reliability. Styling came from David Bache, who had previously had a hand in penning the Rover P4, the Rover SD1 and the Range Rover, and Roy Axe, who would later go on to style the Rover 800 and the Rolls Royce Silver Seraph. The lengthy development time of the car however clearly showed as the first sketches of the car were done back in 1975. Apparently when Roy Axe, who took over as Director of Design in 1982, saw the first prototype with the original design, he was so horrified that he suggested they scrap the whole thing and start over!

 

However, their combined design talent truly shows through with the Montego as in essence these are very handsome cars, with a long smooth body, a pleasing frontal alignment and design, and internally very capable and comfortable. Some novel features included were the colour coordinated bumpers that matched the rest of the car, and the wiper spindles hiding under the bonnet when parked.

 

Although many consider the Maestro just to be a hatchback version of the Montego, there were many features the Montego had that made it an all around better car. These included a new S-Series engine in place of the A-Series engine that dated back to the 1950's, and a more practical and robust dashboard. Variations of the car included the stylish and luxury Vanden Plas, which was styled internally by the world renowned coachbuilder with lavish wood veneer and seating (thankfully not given a chrome nose, that would have been insane!), the sporty MG Montego which featured a higher performance O-Series Turob Engine and a revolutionary synthesised computer voice that announced problems and warnings, and finally the Estate versions which were by far the most popular and received almost unanimous acclaim for their spacious interior.

 

The Montego was launched on April 25th 1984, being available at first as a 4-door saloon to replace the standard Morris Ital, but the Ital in estate form continued on until August, bringing an end to the 11 year old Morris Marina family. In October the Estate version was launched at the British International Motor Show. Initially things were looking up for the Montego, as mentioned the Estate version was lauded for its practicality, the MG Montego became the fastest MG ever built with 115hp to rocket it up to a top speed of 126mph at a rate of 0-60 in 7.1 seconds, and the Vanden Plas was a modest success for the business executive, as well as finding a home in the company car market.

 

Promotion for the car also helped to seal the deal with a fantastically choreographed advert where professional stunt driver Russ Swift, pretty much danced around a crowded car park in a Montego, doing reverse 180's in gaps only a few feet wide, and driving the car on two wheels through a gap only a ruler's length apart! Jeremy Clarkson would attempt to do the same thing 14 years later on one of his DVD's in another Montego, again with the help of Russ Swift, which went well the first time, but not so well the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh time. Eventually the Montego was smashed in half by a large truck in a fiery explosion.

 

Sadly though, the honeymoon like with all good British Leyland cars was short lived, and soon afterwards the various faults and build quality problems became once again apparent. Although many of the features fitted to these cars such as the synthesised voice, the computer engine management and the redesigned dashboard were endearing, the main fault that these cars had were in the electrics, which would frequently go wrong. Some examples I've heard from early Montego owners have included the car failing to start, pressing the indicator switch only to blow the horn, or the synthesised talking lady never, ever, ever shutting up! Because of these problems the cars built up a very quick and poor reputation, added to by the poor construction of the actual car, with the colour coded bumpers being particularly problematic as they'd crack in cold weather.

 

But British Leyland didn't give up on the Montego, and in the background designers continued to tinker with the idea of further additions and changes to the car. Throughout the period following its introduction, British Leyland began to be broken up by the Thatcher Government, with Jaguar being made independent, the various parts manufacturers such as UNIPART being sold off, Leyland Trucks and Buses being sold to Volvo and DAF, and eventually the whole outfit being reduced to just MG and Rover. The Montego has been credited with being the last car to carry the Austin name, the badge being dropped in 1988 with future cars simply being dubbed the Montego. This coincided with a facelift in 1989 and the re-engineering of the car to be fitted with a Perkins Diesel. In 1989 a new seven-seater estate model was created called the Montego Countryman, built to combat the rising trend of People-Carriers such as the Renault Espace, but still being able to perform as well as a regular car. This, much like the original estate, proved immensely popular, especially in France for some reason, which went on to be one of the Montego's major markets.

 

In the early 90's the Montego did start getting back some reputation, winning the CAR Magazine's 'Giant Test' (all technical names I'm sure) when competing against the likes of the Citroen BX and the Audi 80. In fact the Rover Montego Turbo became a favourite with the RAF, and was used to whisk Officers across airfields as a personal transport. The Montego may have failed to outdo the Volkswagen Passat, but as for the British mob such as the Ford Sierra and the Vauxhall Cavalier, it was able competition. In fact when I was young in the 90's a lot of kids I'd see dropped off to school would be in then new Montego's because by this point the reliability issues had been ironed out following Rover Group's return to private ownership under British Aerospace.

 

But by 1992 the car was very much looking its age and was in desperate need of a replacement. In 1993 the Rover 600 was launched which pretty much ended the Montego for mass-production then and there, but special orders for the car continued until 1995. The machines continued to be a favourite among Company Car firms, and a lot of the developments made in the Montego lived on in later Rover cars, primarily the 600 and the 75, which inherited its rear suspension which was often held in high regard. But the curtain did eventually fall for the official Montego production in 1995 as new owners BMW desired nothing more than to be out with the old and in with the new, with facelifts all around including a new Rover 25 to replace the 200, a new Rover 45 to replace the 400, and a new Rover 75 to replace the 800, and the original Range Rover was revamped into the absolutely magnificent Range Rover P38 in 1995. The Maestro too was axed and the Metro followed not long afterwards in 1999, with the classic Mini being killed off in 2000, only to be brought back to life the same year under BMW management after the breakup of Rover that year.

 

But like the Maestro, the Montego simply wouldn't die, but unlike the Maestro, attempts to revive the car under bootlegged brands weren't as prosperous. In India, the company Sipani Automobiles, notable for attempting to recreate British cars such as the Reliant Kitten but instead consistently turning out garbage, attempted to built a few, but folded soon afterwards. In Trinidad & Tobago, a small firm attempted to sell their own copycat versions of the Montego, which were notable for their exceptional poor quality. But most famously was the attempt to recreate the car in China with the Lubao CA 6410, which yoked the nose of a Montego onto the back of a Maestro using a Maestro platform. Today that car is technically still in production as the Jiefang CA 6440 UA Van, but owes more to the Maestro than the Montego.

 

Today the Montego is a very rare car to find. Of the 571,000 cars built, only 296 remain, making it Britain's 8th most scrapped car. Contributing to this, areas of the bodywork that were to be covered by plastic trim (such as the front and rear bumpers) were left unpainted and thus unprotected. In addition, pre-1989 models cannot run on unleaded petrol without the cylinder head being converted or needing fuel additives.

 

However, as mentioned, the Montego estate was a huge hit in France, and chances are you'll find a fair number ambling about the countryside there. Malta too was another popular locale for the Montego, as well as many other British Leyland cars, including Marina's, Allegros and even Princesses!

 

My opinion on the Montego? Like most British Leyland cars it had prospects and purpose, but lacked the desire to build good, honest cars. It was comfortable, it was handsome, it performed as well as a family saloon car should, it was spacious and very well equipped, and like many British Leyland cars, such as the Princess with its Hydragas suspension, it was innovative. If these cars had been built better and had some of the teething problems ironed out with the electrical systems, then British Leyland could have easily gone on to make the family car of the 1980's. But like all pathfinders in the world of technology, they will suffer the full brunt of the problems they are most likely to experience.

 

People rarely remember the originals, only the one's that perfected it...

This is one of the funnier parts to The Breakup Notebook. I love the look on her face!!

I'm very happy with this shot from the lead of the Breakup Notebook.

View On Black

Re finding this, I never posted it and figured no time like now.

The last tear I will cry for you.

 

You have put me through a lot and I don't think either of us can forgive eachother.

 

I am left with a son and no direction.

 

I thought you loved me but I guess it was just another one of your lies.

 

My real tears guys...I'm dealing with a break up...the worst one I have ever seen. :*(

 

Also, this is my start to my 52 week pool...can't think of a better way to turn over a new stone.

Looking at the sunset as the sun had set on my relationship with my partner Jasmine. Goodbye my special friend. May you find happiness where you go.

The breakup of the Soviet Union left Kazakhstan with large numbers of tactical reconnaissance and strike aircraft, plus a heavy bomber regiment at Chargan Air Base near Semipalatinsk with 40 Tupolev Tu-95M5 strategic missile carrier aircraft. However, the newly-formed republic had no tactical units at all and had no use for the bombers. Wanting to keep on friendly terms with Kazakhstan so they could continue to use the Baikonur Space Centre and several military training grounds in the country, Russia exchanged the bombers for a suitable number of Su-27 and MiG-29 and Su-25 fighters from Russian Air Force stocks. By 1995, 73 combat aircraft were delivered including 38 Flankers. The Su-27s entered service with the 60th IAP in 1999 and by 2000 the Kazakhstan Air Force was reformed into the Republic of Kazakhstan Air Defence Force with aviation bases as the primary elements in its order of battle, not air regiments. The 60th IAP was transformed into the 604th AvB and stationed at Taldykorgan, with some Flankers being transferred to Qarahandy-Sary Arka International airport in order to have a more even distribution of fighters across the country.

 

In September 2007, the Kazakhstan Air Defence Force sent ten of its Su-27s to 558th ARZ in Baranovichi, Belarus for upgrades to the BM2 standard. The N001 radar was upgraded with the actual beam and ground mapping modes and increased its compatibility with the R-77 active radar homing AAM and the Kh-31A anti-shipping missile. The cockpit featured an EFIS with colour liquid-crystal MFDs, an enhanced navigation system, a data collection/transmission system, and data cockpit recorders. The first BM2 variant was completed in 2009. In 2015, the Kazakhstan Air Defence Force placed an order for 24 Su-30SM aircraft to replace its ageing MiG-27 Floggers.

 

In this image, a recently upgraded Su-27BM2 (“05 Yellow”) from the 604th AvB at Taldykorgan flies over the Kazakhstan countryside. 05 Yellow was the first Su-27 to receive the BM2 upgrades in Belarus. The new paint scheme also does away with the old Soviet-era camouflage with a dazzling dark blue, light blue, and grey pattern. Note the two B-13L rocket launchers mounted on the number 3 and 4 pylons.

Black Hills Regional Park

And I must be insane

To go skating on your name

And by tracing it twice

I fell through the ice

Here lays my heart

All broken and torn

There are no feelings left in it

For me to mourn

 

Here lays my mind

Which has repressed

All the memories we have shared

That have left me a mess

 

Here lays my soul

Which you took away

Along with my faith and trust in you

That you broke in a day

 

Here lays my body

All mangled and left to die

I hope that I can get through this

And find another guy.

 

"Breakup" by Julie Scricco

  

夜的寧靜是時候好好反省

月的陰晴圓缺就像我的心

夜下著雨　天在哭泣

不知道何時才放晴

我忽然非常想念你

 

你的背影讓我失去了理性

你的放棄讓我迷失了自己

你的離去就像刺青

永遠烙印在我的心

是如此痛　而如此的美麗

 

我努力的想哭泣

卻哭不出淚滴

一次又一次的灰心

才發現早已麻痺

終於發現自己

已經不在乎你

原來分手也能如此安寧

 

安寧／詞：林倛玉

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To one of my fiends,

whose heart is broken.

 

送給一位心碎卻哭不出來的朋友。

加油，我們都在你身邊。

Ottawa River - Rivière des Outaouais

Somewhere in Delhi.

poster art for the february installment of an open mic series here in berkeley. art direction by joe christiano of pegasus books.

 

Horned Puffins mirror one another against a deeply shadowed cliff face. Little Tanaga Strait, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA.

 

Canon 5DM3 | Canon 400mm f/5.6 | Handheld from boat

As seen on display at the Magical History Tour, Henry Ford Museum, Michigan

Baby Talk - short film movie - outtakes - Central Park NYC - USA - November 7th 2020

 

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Baby Talk - film about a relationship change when the desire to have children is no longer shared equally.

 

All seems well on this autumn afternoon in Central Park NYC when Madison portrayed by Samara Riviera invites her partner Bronson portrayed by Ryan Janek Wolowski to meet for what he thinks is romantic stroll through the park, only to find out, Madison is enjoying her New York career life so much that she no longer wants to have a child, putting their eleven year relationship in jeopardy.

  

Film released 2021 USA

RYANISLAND Films

 

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Cast

Madison - Samara Riviera

Bronson - Ryan Janek Wolowski

Connie (Madison's best friend)

Terry (Bronson's sister)

Alex (Bronson's sisters partner)

  

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Baby Talk filming locations

 

New York City USA

 

Upper West Side UWS

 

West 73rd Street

 

MTA New York City Subway Station C train to 72nd St

 

West 72nd Street

 

The Dakota Apartments

 

Central Park West ( Prior to the Park 8th Avenue / Frederick Douglass Boulevard )

 

Central Park NYC Historic District Entrance

 

Bridle Path

 

Strawberry Fields John Lennon of The Beatles memorial area

 

Imagine Circle

 

West Loop Drive

 

Daniel Webster Monument The Falconer bronze statue Central Park NYC area

 

Central Park Conservancy Central To The Park information booth

 

Wagner Cove Shelter

 

Cherry Hill Fountain Victorian stone water fountain

 

Bethesda Fountain Angel of the Waters statue (Biblical account of the Miraculous Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem, Israel from the New Testament story of Jesus miraculously healing a paralyzed man, from the fifth chapter of the Gospel of John ) - Bethesda Terrace - Bethesda Arcade - Central Park Lake - Installed in 1873 - Landmarks of New York plaque

 

Bow Bridge

 

Cherry Hill Lake Walk - green park benches

  

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I LOVE NY Fall Foliage Report

Week 9

November 4th thru 10th 2020

 

PEAK AUTUMN COLORS FOR NYC

 

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Video and audio recording settings

 

Nikon D7500 is a 20.9-megapixel DSLR digital single-lens reflex camera

 

Video settings

1920 x 1080 60p

QT movie file type

Stereo audio

  

Nikon D7500 camera Released June 2 2017

 

Nikon D7500 camera sells for $1,339.05

  

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This logo for the Banana Breakup comedy improv team was on a window during the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival in February.

Polygon Breakup explores unfamiliar techniques for achieving visual effects. In place of a standard fadeout, a recursive polygon splitting function slowly shreds the shapes.

 

Prints are available at www.tylerlhobbs.com/works/item/polygon-breakup.

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Broken skateboard poster/sketch/messin around...

everytime you break a skateboard, you break a heart.

-These photographs were taken September 12th 2009. Funny how I reuse oldies.

 

-My boyfriend and I are no more.

-I haven't felt able to say it out loud/or write it down...

-It ended the last week of May... (however it wasn't clear till July...)

-I've done badly in both of the exams I took three days after we split... I'm very unhappy.

-Its taking me a long time to "get over." I'm sorry but thats just me.

-One thing that made me happy, who made me happy.... turned upside down and became a source of upset.... :'(

-It was one inspiration for "Torn."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0AFsMrxwJ8

-Its hard when both people feel differently.

-I didn't want to let go.... still don't want to let go. I hurt more than I let on.

-I miss everything about him... I feel so lonely now... I want him/it back...

 

-I'm a single girl... There. I said it. After three months... its about time.

- :'(

** FILE ** In this Oct. 18, 2007 file photo, Mexico's band RBD presents the award for Best Pop Artist during the 2007 MTV Latin Video Music Awards at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City. RBD announced on Friday, Aug. 15, 2008 that they are breaking up after fours years. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull,File)

As the temperature starts to rise, Lake Michigan, Chicago, USA.

Breakup boots are this year's hottest new trend.

Edited Landsat 8 image of the breakup of the large iceberg that just split away from the Larsen C ice shelf. Processing variant.

 

Image source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=90627

 

Original caption: When a massive iceberg first broke away from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf sometime between July 10-12, 2017, scientists knew it would eventually start breaking apart. That’s the normal life cycle of a drifting iceberg, which is at the mercy of the ocean’s battering currents, tides, and winds. Already those forces have turned A-68 into two named bergs, A-68A and A-68B, as well as a handful of pieces too small to be named by the U.S. National Ice Center.

 

In the two weeks following the initial break, satellite imagery has documented the iceberg’s motion. The southern end appears to have slammed into a mix of floating ice above Gipps Ice Rise—the bump of snow- and ice-covered bedrock visible in the lower right of the image. Then the berg rebounded and its northern end swung back toward the just opened rift. The resulting impact caused both the berg’s north end and the ice shelf to fracture.

 

“The back-and-forth movement of A-68 looks akin to maneuvering a parallel-parked car out of a tight parking space—like an Austin Powers three-point turn,” said Christopher Shuman, a cryospheric scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

 

The fractured berg and shelf are visible in these images, acquired on July 21, 2017, by the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) on the Landsat 8 satellite. The false-color view shows the relative warmth or coolness across the region. White indicates where the ice or water surface is warmest, most notably in the widening strip of mélange between the main iceberg and the remaining ice shelf. Dark grays and blacks are the coldest areas of ice.

 

So far, the calving and fracturing has taken place under the dark cover of polar night during Antarctica’s austral winter. That makes thermal imagery from satellites a critical tool for “seeing” the action. Adrian Luckman of the UK-based Project MIDAS first saw the berg break away in thermal data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), before Sentinel radar data became available later on July 12.

 

The thermal view above shows a remarkable amount of detail. The bright signature of relatively warm ocean water appears around A-68B, which broke off sometime between late July 13 and early July 14. More subtle fractures north of A-68B are visible on the shelf; these pieces will eventually break free and move out to sea with the rest of the ice.

 

All of the ice pieces large and small are subject to the water currents of the Weddell Gyre and the strong weather systems that can whip up blinding snow and blanket the region in clouds for many days at a time. This same ocean circulation that will eventually move the bergs northward toward South Georgia Island.

 

In the meantime, scientists will have to wait until August—the end of polar night here—to get their first natural-color images since the long-growing Larsen C rift became a complete break.

 

References and Related Reading

NASA Earth Observatory, Rift and Calving at Larsen C Ice Shelf.

NASA Earth Observatory (2017, July 12) Antarctic Ice Shelf Sheds Massive Iceberg.

NASA Earth Observatory (2017, July 12) Landsat Spots Birth of Iceberg A-68.

Project MIDAS (2017, July 12) Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg. Accessed July 12, 2017.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Instrument(s):

Landsat 8 - TIRS

Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012.

The shelf ice breaking up.

Indiana Dunes National Park

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“i’m leaving you” she said as a matter of factly…meghan was sitting beside me at the bar…she had turned slightly so we were almost facing each other…

 

“why ?” I was a bit surprised, ok a lot surprised at this turn of events…

 

“i’m bored and I need a change…this relationship is ok but it’s always the same…we never do or try anything differently…”

 

“i thought we were doing ok, so what is it you want to do…”

 

“i don’t know…like I said I’m bored…maybe if I kind of wandered for a while…maybe…”

 

“is it something sexual…some different position you want to try…a different technique…maybe some toys…how about a menage…maybe one of your friends would like to join us…beth? sandra?...i’d like that too !...a lot…”

 

“yea you would…maybe if you thought about me for once…how about one of your friends…gary or ted…I’ve noticed the way they look at me…I could do either one...or both..."

 

“touche…well if you’ve made up your mind, how about one for the road?...maybe I can change your mind…”

 

“ok…but I don’t think anything you’ve got left is going to change my mind…if you want to try and I know you do let’s go to your place…that way I can leave after we’re done…”

 

Kerrville

Cream Me discussion here.

12.17 day 4

 

broken hearted. :[

 

today was going ok. other than my usual clutzy self.

 

than i got a phone call that changed everything. :[

 

the guy that i had fallen for gave me the most heart wrenching news. i never saw it coming. and ive been crying all day.

 

i dunno how things are going to work out :'[

 

</3 brenda