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One of the first homework assignments we give our clients who are going through a divorce in Houston, Texas, is to gather all the information you can regarding your retirement accounts such as:
Aside from a house often retirement accounts are often the biggest asset of a marriage. Which often leads to questions on will a spouse get to keep their retirement account or will they be required to share it with their Ex. In today's we will discuss how retirement accounts are treated in a Texas divorce.
Generally, retirement accounts can be divided into two categories:
Under a defined contribution plan, the employee, or both the employee and employer contribute money or stock to a retirement account.
Examples of these types of plans include:
In most circumstances, these types of plans are partitioned or divided among spouses by using Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) or Domestic Relations Order (DRO).
Defined Benefit Retirement Plans (or pensions) involve an employer paying an employee a monthly amount for life during retirement. This amount is calculated using a formula that considers factors, such as:
These types of plans are less common now but you can still find some corporations or government plans that still provide pensions to their employees.
In order to determine whether there is a claim by the other spouse to a retirement account will depend on when contributions were made to the account.
One important thing to keep in mind is that Texas community and separate property rules apply to retirement accounts just like any other marital property.
The General Texas Community Property Rule is that:
Separate Property in Texas is
property acquired before marriage,
property acquired during marriage by gift, devise or descent
property acquired during the marriage but purchased with separate property funds
Thus, any retirement acquired during the marriage is community property and is thus divisible by the Court.
Separate property matters because if property can be shown to be separate it will not be divided by a court because it is not marital property.
Retirement accounts can be a mixture of community and separate property. One reason is that the retirement account existed prior to the marriage and community money was added to it after.
This is why knowing:
If the account had a balance in it prior to the marriage it may be possible to protect a portion of the retirement account as separate property.
Length of marriage may matter for some retirement accounts. Plans such as 401(k)s) can be divided on divorce no matter how long you have been married.
A court has more discretion regarding how these retirement counts are divided.
Some plans such as:
Are governed by different rules and the length of marriage may make a difference.
During the Texas divorce process, it is important to investigate and do discovery to determine what marital assets exist. One place to start is by looking at your spouse's pay stub. If your spouse is making contributions to an employer retirement program these contributions should appear on his pay stub.
Another thing to look for would be a statement that is sent out prior to tax time by retirement accounts.
As mentioned above wants it is determined how a retirement such as a 401K or a pension should be divided. The proper steps for allocating the money to the correct spouse is:
Some things to know about QDRO's include:
One of the first things to realize is that retirement and employee benefits will more than likely be divided up during a divorce. This will require a determination of which law is applicable to the particular retirement plan.
It is important to understand the retirement account that is being divided to make sure that division is handled properly. This can help avoid the headache of dividing a plan in a way that is not allowed.
If that should happen it may be necessary to file a separate lawsuit after the divorce under sections 9.101 – 9.106 of the Texas Family Code.
Yes, if there is an ongoing divorce you can send the employer and plan administrator notice of the ongoing divorce along with:
If your spouse has been served notice of one these documents and succeeds in cashing out a retirement account before you have an opportunity to give notice to the plan, then your spouse can be held in contempt of court.
This is a good reason to have copies as much financial information as possible when filing for divorce this way your Houston divorce lawyer can help send notice where it is needed.
Options for making sure you keep your retirement benefits include:
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James Gunn Writes: I wasn't too happy with the version of S&M that was shown on XBox, as they cut the living shit out of it. Shortly after I signed on to produce the HORROR GOES COMEDY series, as well as write and direct my own, XBox became pain in the asses about content. They started by promising us directors complete creative freedom - that's the whole reason we agreed to do it for, essentially, no money. We were told that anything goes. So I shot the most balls-out, fucked up thing I've ever shot: HUMANZEE!
haha this isnt the first itme i've heard about ms having strict policies... they actually wanted epic to remove the lancer from gears coz they felt it was too voilent during the pre release months
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Americans cannot step in for every injustice all over the world. As long as what is happening is not a threat to Americans, it is not the Americans' place to step in and try to control it. We are too extended around the world as it is. There is also no way to choose when to step in and when not to, and it becomes political.
The United States is a world leader in many ways, but should not be the world's police force or moral compass. There are ways the United States can make efforts to improve the lives of oppressed people globally without direct intervention. Many other countries of equal economic success to the U.S. are not actively involved in managing other countries.
Human rights atrocities happen globally everyday, many of which can be solved without the use of force and which the United States never even considers intervening in. The broad concept that the US needs to be the world's police is completely counter to the Founding Fathers' vision for our country, and puts undue economic ( and mortal) strain on our country without directly benefiting us at all. Americans would do better to protest peacefully and engage in an economic embargo, rather than sending troops.
No, the U.S. should not step in to protect Philipino activists yet. The U.S. can't just jump in every time there is a disturbance around the world. We have to step back and let others solve some of their own problems. However, the U.S. also has an interest in human rights around the globe, so at some point it may become necessary to intervene.


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After months of "change," Americans have had enough. A recent Rasmussen poll of likely voters shows only 30 percent believe the country is headed in the right direction. Two-thirds (65 percent) think America is on the wrong track.
The same overwhelming majority tell Rasmussen they want smaller government – one that does less, costs less and operates far more efficiently.
Progressives scoff, asserting that Americans want big government – they just don't want to pay for it. Besides, they argue, there are no other options: conservatives have no ideas on how to address our problems.
They're mistaken. The proof is found in "Solutions for America," a comprehensive 54-page guide from The Heritage Foundation that presents more than 120 conservative policy prescriptions to get our nation back on the right track. Some of the recommendations are groundbreaking. Others are familiar. All have one thing in common: They would return power to the people. And, collectively, they will transform America.
For example, "Solutions for America" calls for ending the era of open-ended entitlements. Spending on the Big Three entitlement programs – Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security – is on auto-pilot, consuming an ever-increasing share of GDP without even a vote in Congress.
Lawmakers need to bring these programs into the budgetary process, establishing firm, five-year budgets and making sure that those needing help the most get it.
We should raise the Social Security retirement age, and encourage people to work longer by eliminating payroll taxes for those over retirement age. We should let needy families choose how to spend their share of Medicaid dollars, allowing them to purchase higher quality private insurance. And when entitlement spending exceeds congressionally approved levels, automatic triggers should keep costs in line.
We must cap welfare spending, which now, across all levels of government, approaches $1 trillion. Congress should consider all 71 means-tested welfare programs as a whole, eliminating duplicative programs and capping annual increases in welfare spending at the rate of inflation.
Moreover, lawmakers should break the culture of dependency by making sure that able-bodied welfare recipients give something in return for their benefits. In some areas, this will mean strengthening work requirements. In others, it may involve treating some benefits as loans to be repaid.
Spending overall also needs to be restrained. "Solutions" recommends a mechanism to force Congress to live within a reasonable budget: a binding cap that limits future year-to-year growth in federal spending to inflation plus population growth. The general goal should be to lower spending to the historic norm of no more than 20 percent of GDP.
Other common-sense policy proposals in "Solutions" include:
•Aligning the top tax rate on corporate earnings with those of our 30 largest trading partners, so we can better compete for business globally.
•Letting states opt out of inflexible, D.C.-based programs, so they can resume their traditional leadership roles and freely pursue innovative approaches in areas such as education and transportation.
•Ending corporate welfare and earmarks.
•Returning to a foreign policy of "peace through strength" to deal with the growing threat of nuclear proliferation and well as the dangers posed by global terrorism and hostile conventional forces.
At a recent fundraiser, President Obama asserted: "The other side isn't offering anything new." As if centralized government based on the principles of control, spending, debt and redistribution of wealth is new. It isn't. It's been tried worldwide and has consistently failed.
Yet the calls for lavish spending continue – the only answer we get from the current leadership. Conservative answers start from a very different place. The counterpoint to thoughtless and expensive government programs is not new thoughtless and expensive government programs. The counterpoint is real reform.
The principles that our nation was founded upon aren't ideas to be discarded. They're exceptional goals to be rediscovered. Real government reform is itself an untested idea. That's what conservatives offer. It's an idea whose time has come.
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…or, 'in awe of the male nesting instinct…'
So…wow. You ever live with someone for nearly 10 years and then they go and do something – or a series of things – that totally blows your mind? Yeah, well, turns out I've been living with a secret carpentry/renovating genius all these years and had NO IDEA. Until now. Not that he didn't do a lot before, but nothing like this (and with remarkably little swearing).
To re-cap, in the past 3 days, Sam has:
1. built shelves in the living room for the record collection
2. built a desk in the study/nursery
3. added two new storage shelves in the study/nursery (- what the hell are we going to call this room?)
4. finished the trim in the bathroom
5. installed all the quarter round and moldings for the hallway baseboards
6. installed new light fixtures
7. replaced all the thresholds on all the doorways
8. cut all the doors to fit the thresholds
…and a million other small things that have been bugging the shit out of me since the summer.
Here's the pile of records you might remember:
And, voila (which is what it felt like – I think I maybe had time to go to the corner store and they were done)
– here's the new shelves:
Bathroom trim and other improvements:
– which might not look like the biggest deal, but remember what we had to cover up here after the tiling was 'done':
It required either an entire new row of tiles to cover all that crap at the top, or a very WIDE piece of trim. We chose trim – and I no longer feel I need to pee with my eyes closed.
And really, how did I live with that light fixture for so long? Gross. We've had this $5 bargain from Walmart ready to install for about 4 months now…
New medicine cabinet is on hold (oh, and Sam built new shelves for that too – I'm telling you, he is on FIRE).
But why are there not pictures of everything Sam accomplished? Because he's too damn fast, that's why. By the time I get my lazy ass in gear and waddle over to take a 'before' picture, it's already been transformed into an 'after'. Oh, and in the case of the study/nursery I still need to organize things so the photos do the new desk justice – we are almost there (as in the room no longer looks like a craptastic dumping ground), and I have recovered from my nursery panic/frenzy – hence building of desk and not change table, though it could be both.
Sam is like a man possessed. Let no one tell you it is just women who get the nesting instinct. Oh no…I'm too busy feeling fat and eating candy on the couch for that (especially now the gestational diabetes test came back negative – horray! candy for everyone!).
Give a man about to be a dad a saw and a nail gun and magical things can happen…


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CHICAGO — Ozzie Guillen is breathing, so he must be talking. His haphazard dash through his potential minefield of a vocabulary will inevitably include talking baseball, cursing, teasing people, talking more baseball and maybe offending someone, too. And then explaining why he did not mean it.
This is Guillen's world, an all-noise- all-the-time place, where his mouth moves fast, faster and fastest. At any speed, Guillen's mouth sometimes moves faster than it should, but he cannot stop. He does not want to slow down. It is him, every last word, even the crude ones.
But Guillen's motoring mouth, which is always on as he manages the surging Chicago White Sox, went too far last week and dumped him into an embarrassing situation. Guillen called Jay Mariotti, a sports columnist for The Chicago Sun-Times, a derogatory term used to describe someone's sexual orientation.
It was one syllable too many and it was the most egregious of Guillen's verbal fiascoes. It was not the first time Guillen has screamed too loudly or criticized someone unnecessarily, and it took the White Sox's cuddly Ozzie-being-Ozzie response to an uncomfortable extreme.
"I think my job is to win games," Guillen said Friday. "We do that. I don't feel like I killed anybody. I made one mistake."Continue reading the main story
One big mistake that even team officials privately acknowledged was inane. Guillen spent a few days discussing what he uttered during a profanity- filled tirade about Mariotti, stealing some of the focus from a team that may be better than last season's, the one that snared the franchise's first championship in 88 years.
Once Guillen closes his mouth for a while, more people might notice that the White Sox had won nine consecutive games before losing to the Houston Astros 10-9 in 13 innings Sunday. The White Sox, who rebounded from a 9-1 seventh-inning deficit, are 49-26, the second-best record in baseball, and are powered by Paul Konerko, Jim Thome and Joe Crede. But Guillen, their former shortstop, is their face and, unequivocally, their voice.
"Anytime the people are talking about something that's not the game, I don't think we like it," Jerry Reinsdorf, the White Sox's owner, said Friday. "We're not happy about it. But I think it's over with now."
Is it? Is it ever over with Guillen? He was fined by Commissioner Bud Selig and ordered to attend sensitivity training. But after Guillen heard his penalty Thursday and apologized to the community - though not to Mariotti - he lampooned the idea of sensitivity training the next day.
"What does sensitivity mean?" Guillen said. "Like be nice with people? I've got to do what they tell me to do, but I've got to learn the language first before I go do anything."
Presumably, Guillen, who has worked in the United States for more than 20 years, was joking. It was another Ozzie- esque answer and another chance for him to make the White Sox squirm. And, very soon, team officials squirmed.
After Guillen answered questions in English on Friday, he spoke to an ESPN Deportes reporter in Spanish. ESPN ran an article in English on its Web site in which Guillen, who is from Venezuela, was quoted as saying he would probably bypass the training.
When Guillen was asked about the comments after the game Friday, a game in which Jose Contreras won his 16th straight decision, he snapped. He warned that he might "get nasty" with reporters, said that he did not "need this job" and stalked out of his postgame interview session.
Back in the clubhouse, Guillen, drinking a Corona, was angry as he barked out revised interview rules to a public relations official. "No ESPN, no TV, no Spanish," Guillen said. "Tomorrow, when they ask me, I talk about the game."
Could Guillen ever suppress himself? He insisted that he could, but that seems doubtful. Would Guillen's words ever force the White Sox to muzzle him or dismiss him? The general manager, Kenny Williams, has said that Guillen needs to exert better control.
Reinsdorf said: "Ozzie is a very smart guy. I would be shocked if he ever did the same thing again."
Guillen called his reputation "real bad" because of what he said, but he is as likely to change his personality as he is to fly a helicopter to the mound for the next pitching change. The White Sox players adore Guillen and like that their manager absorbs so much attention.
"If it ever came down to it, I think he'd tell them they'd have to fire him because he's not going to change," the pitcher Mark Buehrle said.
Ozzie Guillen Jr., a 21-year-old who is a more polished version of his father, said Friday at U.S. Cellular Field, "My mother has been trying to get him to change for years."
Showing that the baseball does not fall far from the manager's office, Ozzie Jr. added: "The whole sensitivity thing, that's just stupid. He's not going to learn. He's not going to change."
Viv Bernstein contributed reporting from Charlotte, North Carolina.Continue reading the main story


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I live in South Florida. The tropics. Sun, sand (all over the house), palm trees, rain and heat.
We, ok, I'll say I, am blessed with a few days throughout the year of cooler weather. Being from Wisconsin, I tolerate the heat when I'm outside, which isn't often. I mostly stay indoors, out of the sun and the heat. So when the temperature drops to 75 or lower, the windows get opened and the fresh air comes in.
This past weekend, it was COLD. I enjoyed it, knowing it wouldn't last long. But I did have a blanket in the truck with me to lay across my lap. Sunday morning, I woke to rain. And wind. And cold. Not a good combination. Brrrrrr!
This morning, it was cold in the house. I had wished I had another blanket to sleep with. When the alarm went off, I got up to make coffee and peeked at the thermostat. 65. Walking around the house in shorts and it's 65 inside. I wonder what it's like outside? No, I didn't open the door to check. I was still sleepy. 😉 I checked weather.com and it said 37. Scott is still under the covers, wishing away the alarm. He asked me how cold it was. I told him if I said how cold it was, he wouldn't want to get up. He insisted. I told him. It took him another 10 minutes or so to get out of bed. Hee hee.
I think my early risers may sleep in a bit this morning. They won't want to get out from under the covers. Maybe then I can sleep in a bit. Ha ha!
So, I like the cold, but this is freezing. Not literally, of couse. I do know that freezing is 5 degrees colder than what it is right now. But in my book, it's freezing. It's a simple reminder that I love where I live. I do not miss being so cold I can't get warm. When it feels as if my hands are burning because they are so cold. No, give me Florida heat over Wisconsin winters anytime.
My kids keep begging me to see snow. I try to tell them they can live perfectly happy, productive lives without ever seeing that stuff. But the unknown has intrigued them. They pray for snow. They ask if we can take them to see snow someday. Sigh. Ok. One day we'll go see snow.


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About three weeks have passed since the Republican majority in the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a budget bill, which Gov. Tom Wolf quickly vetoed.
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Munch Family Restaurant Review0
Yesterday I hauled Ben and his car seat into the Zip car and we hit the road from downtown to the north part of our city for a lunch date. There is nothing like a nice summer day lunching with a girlfriend! Our date was to meet up with a friend and her baby girl B at Munch Family Restaurant (formerly called Babyeats). The thing that got me excited about this restaurant was that they offered a baby food menu and had a play area for tots. Reason enough to make the trip from downtown. I felt good knowing I could bring my loud boisterous baby boy and we wouldn't get the stare down from fellow dining patrons if he decided to sing!
The scene was mum's lunching with their tots or mum's with babies and young children who were meeting up with a friend. The cool thing is that everyone seemed to be having a stress free time. I was really looking forward to the baby food menu, especially because you are asked to not bring in outside food for your baby. I was curious what they would have to offer and had high expectations. You might have read about what Ben likes to eat here.
I was disappointed that the baby food options were applesauce or carrots but we ended up going with carrots. The actual baby food was so so and a very small portion for a baby. We also ordered yogurt and the portion was still really tiny too. I was hoping for some thick creamy full fat yogurt but what we got was a little watery and hard to spoon into a baby's mouth because of the consistency.
I liked that Munch served wine and had a full menu to choose from. My friend and I both ordered the same thing: a free run chicken, double-smoked bacon and avocado with chipotle aioli served open face on a nice toasted foccacia with a side of salad. Sounds delicious doesn't it? This is how it goes: pretty tasty, nice choice of bread, excellent crispiness of the bacon, chicken a bit dry, salad just okay. Nothing fantastic to rave about: it was all just okay.
However, the absolute best part of our experience was the great play area for children! It made the experience and is probably what would bring me back if this city mama decided to make the trek again. There was a good choice of age appropriate toys for babes up through toddlerhood and older. Bring up the quantity and quality of food and I would be giving it more top marks. Next on the list of baby friendly eateries to try is Little Nest in Vancouver.


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G'day, Adam Williams here,
How was tutorial 2? Importing your photos into Lightroom (click here if you missed it)
Ok, we are not quite in Photoshop yet, however, at least we are cracking into processing our photos!
Step 1 of the 5 step workflow is completed in Lightroom (or Adobe Camera Raw) and basically focuses on correcting the photo ready for all that Photoshop Pizzazz!!!!
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DZ1Floatplane History
In 1992 during the spring I was approached by Roger Day to help him construct a new type of float plane based on using an inflatable dingy. When I got to Rogers facility in Kemah, Texas, he had already constructed a welded stainless steel chassis and was preparing to bolt it to the dingy. This was to be a joint venture between Sunrise Ultralights and Roger Day in the construction and completion of the floatplane. The idea to marriage a full winged ultralight airframe to this Avon inflatable dingy was a novel idea. Others had already produced dingy planes using the trike weight shift approach and had made successful operational aircraft. But they had some inherent flying problems aerodynamically using a dingy cause from excessive drag. But the DZ1 did not exhibit any of these problems.
The DZ1 had some great flying characteristics not realized in aircraft built over the years that made flying off water a little more bearable. One such reason is this plane is unsinkable. In one of the test flights that Roger had performed accidentally he launched the plane off the water in an unexpected take off and climbed it directly into a stall about 100 feet off the water. The float plane then nosed over and went directly nose down into the drink diving head first and disappeared below the surface. Roger was clearly shaken but still strapped into the seat of the plane. But still under full throttle nosed up out of the water dumping all the water in the dingy out the back and started picking up speed for takeoff. Coming out of the sudden shock Roger shut the ignition down and brought the plane to a halt. Inspection of the float plane showed no visual damage and the video was reviewed by some NASA Engineers and were totally amazed by the incident.
The above drawings illustrate the 3 views of the design. These drawings were made in 1992 when Kim Zorzi was operating under the name of Sunrise Ultralight. Many details of the aircrafts design were lost when Kim underwent a divorce from his ex wife in 1993.
These pictures are really all that remains from the project.
DZ1 was conceived to be a single seat type of plane but later proved it could fly two grown adults. Powered by a Rotax 582 engine and a 3:1 drive produced the needed 65 HP to get the floatplane off the water in the shortest distance. A Kevlar prop was also used in order to take the punishment of water splash.
The wings were a stretched version of the regular Spitfire 2 wing structure and were fully sleeved for strength. All tubes were given an anodized coating to protect it from the corrosive salt water environment.
Top view of Avon dingy with wings attached and tail boom
In the seat area, only one center mounted control stick was used. But the rudder pedals were designed to be operated by two adults. So this used the double Teleflex control system to operate the rudder as also used on the Spitfire designs. A third cable was used to control a water rudder that was later installed off the keel of the dingy. You may also notice the boom tube attached to the rear of the boat which held the tail section in place. The tail feathers were bent aluminum tubing and covered with ceconite. After priming and painting, the surfaces turned out to be very slick and smooth. Both the rudder and the elevators were sized up a bit larger in order to have a better response on the water.
This picture was taken in front of Roger's workshop in Kemah as it was the first time the wings had been attached to the airframe. The wing attached to the root area by sliding the leading and trailing edges over a machined stainless steel tube welded onto the cockpit structure. This type of mounting had never been tried elsewhere and proved to work very well. Wings were outfitted with three quarter span ailerons. Sponsons were added to the outer part of the wings to stabilize the wings in the water. The Rotax 582 engine was hung upside down and rubber mounted off the stainless cage area. The radiators were also mounted below the engine for maximum cooling efficiency.
This picture of the tail feathers shows much more detail of the tubing configurations used and also shows the larger rudder for better performance on the water. Dual cables were used for the rudder and also for the elevator as also copied from the Spitfire design. The four inch boom tube was also drilled to mount the tail feathers as was used in previous designs.
Above is a picture of it being assembled and prepared for a day at the lake. Notice the landing gear that was also welded together out of 1 ½ inch stainless steel so as the plane could be driven to the water. The front wheel was steer able so it made it very easy to drive around on dry ground. As you can see a enclosed trailer was purchased and modified in order to carry the DZ1 FLOATPLANE.
The DZ1 floatplane was flown around Kemah, Texas for quite awhile accumulating the forty hours required by the FAA for new aircraft. It proved it self to be a very airworthy aircraft and much video was produced on days when the seas was very rough and very calm. This aircraft could make take off and landings on 3 foot swells. There is not any other floatplanes that I know of that can be capable of doing this without going to the larger commercial types.
Picture of Roger Day sitting in his Dingy Plane on Clear Lake
Imagine a craft like this could be used for a hot shot service to deliver parts to the off shore oil platforms being capable of landing and taking off in the rough seas. Many tourist resorts would have loved this design for giving sight seeing flights or intro flights for it could be flown right off the beach not needing a runway. Delivering goods or medical supplies to unincorporated areas in South America or Africa where the rivers and lakes are the only place to land and take off. The ideas are endless considering the uses for this floatplane.
So why did this floatplane never make it to the market place? What price would you pay to have a floatplane of this type? Americans just are not use to paying a high price for rag and tube design aircraft. The cost of this baby was well into the 50k market place and nobody wanted to pay that so the plane was mothballed for many years. Now is the end to another very good prototype design that spanned a distance of nearly fifteen years. Many improvements could have been made as with the addition of the 100 hp 912 Rotax engine that would have greatly improved the performance.
In 2007 the floatplane was purchased by an inexperienced individual who after flying it for several hours crashed. It was investigated to be pilot error. The floatplane was completely destroyed. Since Roger had suffered some serious medical issues with his sight, repairs could not be made.
Don't look for any specification sheets for they were never
written. There was not any Assembly Manuals or Pilots Operational Manuals ever
written. Roger was a very kind hearted man and a genius with stainless steel and
basically forged this design from off the top of his head. I only helped him
make his dream a reality by overseeing that all the work was done to acceptable
engineering standards and materials. Roger invested a lot of time and money into
this DZ1 PROJECT. No investors could be found to further the production after
the prototype had proved its worth. This was a sad ending to a great piece of
aviation history.
Pictures taken after it was destroyed and recovered from Lake Conroe.
Hopefully some video may be presented along with this material to show the plane
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English Muffin Bread
Last Thursday, I was in a pretty amazing state of procrastination. You know those moments when you'll choose to do anything other than the task at hand? Things like cleaning toilets, sorting socks or attempting some crazy craft you found on Pinterest even though you're lacking 85% of the required materials. I was having one of those moments.
After organizing my pantry, brushing my dog's teeth, chasing dust bunnies around my office and having a lengthy conversation with said dog regarding the Frito odor emanating from his feet, I decided to do something useful – make a loaf of English Muffin Bread.
Initially, I didn't plan on blogging this bread – I find that bread is difficult to photograph and I really wasn't in the mood to challenge myself. I haphazardly threw the loaf together and honestly wasn't expecting much, but in about an hour and half, I had one of the most amazing loaves of bread cooling on my counter. I don't use the word best on MBA very often, because well, in my opinion there can always be better, but this is without a doubt the best loaf of bread I've ever made.
Just as the name suggests, this coarse-textured English Muffin Bread is ideal for toasting. It's full of those little nooks and crannies that are perfect for containing pools of melted butter and jam. The crust has an amazingly crisp texture that is only enhanced by toasting.
Not only is this bread undeniably delicious, it's also ridiculously simple to prepare which makes it great for those of you just getting started with yeast baking. You toss everything into a mixer, let it rise, bake it and you'll pretty much be deeming yourself a master baker by the time the first slice is toasted.
Whether you're looking to kill some time, or just wanting to make a killer loaf of bread, I hope you find this English Muffin Bread as incredible and addictive as I do.
English Muffin Bread
3 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon instant yeast
1 cup milk
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons vegetable oil or olive oil
cornmeal, to sprinkle in pan
1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, and instant yeast; stir to combine.
2. In a microwave safe bowl, combine the milk, water, and oil and heat to between 120°F and 130°F. Make sure to stir the liquid before measuring its temperature. If you don't have a thermometer, don't worry, King Arthur states that the liquid should feel quite hot (hotter than lukewarm), but not so hot that it would be uncomfortable as bath water.
3. Pour the hot liquid over the dry ingredients in the mixing bowl. Beat at high speed for 1 minute, the dough will be quite soft and sticky.
4. Lightly grease an 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" loaf pan, and sprinkle the bottom and sides with cornmeal. I just tossed in about a 1/4 of cornmeal and tilted the pan until the inside was thoroughly coated.
5. Scoop the dough into the prepared pan. I used a rubber spatula sprayed with nonstick cooking spray to level the top of the dough out a bit.
6. Cover the pan (I used plastic wrap), and let the dough rise until it's just barely crowned over the rim of the pan. King Arthur Flour notes that when you look at the rim of the pan from eye level, you should see the dough, but it shouldn't be more than about 1/4" over the rim. This will take about 45 minutes to 1 hour, if you heated the liquid to the correct temperature and your kitchen isn't very cold. While the dough is rising, preheat the oven to 400°F.
7. Remove the cover, and bake the bread for 22 to 27 minutes, until it's golden brown and its interior temperature is 190°F. Mine baked for 26 minutes and it was perfect.
8. Remove the bread from the oven, and after 5 minutes turn it out of the pan onto a rack to cool. Let the bread cool completely before slicing.
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A few months ago, Jim and I set out to clean up our diet and we started by eliminating as much white flour, white sugar and white carbs as possible from our diet. The results have been great and we now embrace whole grains and a variety of green vegetables we might have otherwise overlooked. I am never hungry and certainly never feel deprived….
Well, let's back up for a minute. Even though I am not much of a "sweets" person, the one treat I both crave, and love to make, is pie. For most of the summer, I have been turning the idea of making a healthier pie over in my head and finally had an idea of how I wanted to try it. I came home from work on a Thursday night and started pulling out my baking supplies. Baking a pie just couldn't wait another minute!I use whole wheat pastry flour quite often in my cookies, substituting it for at least half of the white flour, so I knew that it would be my starting point. Whole wheat definitely requires a lot more liquid and can have a tendency to be tough, if it is not handled with love, so I thought it would be interesting to add some grated sharp white cheddar cheese to give it a little personality.
Gravenstein apples just happen to grow in my yard and they were ready for the picking – so the choice of apples was a no-brainer! The next challenge was how to sweeten it. Since this was a spur-of-the moment pie, I ended up using 10 individual packets of Truvia (stevia) sweetener. A generous addition of cinnamon, a dash of fresh nutmeg and a little bit of apple cider vinegar completed the filling.
The pie baked beautifully and filled the air with the scent of apples, pastry and cheese. After letting the pie cool for a couple of hours, I nervously served Jim a slice and we were both amazed at how delicious it was. We were actually unsure if it tasted so good just because we hadn't had anything sweet for such a long time or because it was really that good. After making a repeat for friends the following week, I had confirmation that it really was that good!
So the next time you want to make a pie, try this "healthier" version and you will be able to have your pie and eat it too!
Sugar-Free Apple Pie with Whole Wheat White Cheddar Crust
- 3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 tsp. kosher salt
- 6 tablespoons good quality butter
- 6 tablespoons leaf lard (use additional butter if you don't have leaf lard available)
- ½ cup shredded sharp white cheddar cheese
- 12 tablespoons or more ice water
Mix flour, salt and cheese and then work the chilled butter and lard into the dry ingredients with your hands until you have a rough mixture with pieces ranging in size from small flakes to peas.
Begin sprinkling 3 tablespoons water over the flour mixture and work with your hands. Whole wheat flour requires a lot more liquid, so repeat this process 2 more times. At this point, you can start adding water a tablespoon at a time, working it and evaluating. You are looking for it to hold together. Don't panic, if it takes a lot more water than you think it should – remember this is whole wheat. Once you are there, simply divide the dough in half, form into 2 chubby rounds, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and pop it into the refrigerator to chill while you prepare the filling.
- 8 – 10 Gravenstein apples, peeled cored & sliced (you can also use a combination of sweet and tart apples like Golden Delicious and Granny Smith)
- 10 packets Truvia or 7 ½ tsp. stevia sweetener
- 1 tblsp. Whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- Freshly grated nutmeg (a few pass on a rasp) or 1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon good quality apple cider vinegar
Slice the apples into both thick and thin slices. If the slices are too thin, you will end up with "applesauce" pie and if they are too thick, the fruit doesn't cook down enough. Use your pie dish to figure out how many apples you need. The apples should completely fill the dish and be mounded high. In a mixing bowl (you can use the same one that you mixed the crust in), combine the apples, Truvia, cinnamon, flour, nutmeg and apple cider vinegar. Set to the side to allow the fruit to slightly macerate while you roll out the crust.
For the best success working with this crust, I recommend using a pastry cloth and a little bit of white flour for the cloth and your rolling pin. Remove the first disc from the refrigerator and roll it out for the bottom crust allowing at least an additional 1 inch overhang – use your pie dish to measure. Fold the crust over your rolling pin and gently transfer it to the pie dish, rearranging as necessary to center. Seal any cracks with a dab of water and your fingers.
Add the apples, arranging them so they fit nicely into the pan and mound up in the center.
Follow the same procedure for rolling out the top crust and gently lay it over the filling. Trim the edges to about a 1 inch overhang. Bring the top and bottom crust together by rolling the top crust under the bottom. Then seal by either pinching with your fingers to flute or simply crimp with a fork. Optional – brush the crust with an egg wash and sprinkle with a little bit of raw sugar.
Cut a few vent holes in the top and pop it into the oven at 425 for 15 minutes. Then turn the heat down to 375 and cook for another 45 minutes. If the top starts to get too brown, simply tent a piece of foil over the top.
Remove to a cooling rack and let cool at least 2 hours or preferably overnight prior to serving.


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The Government has announced that foreign chief constables could be brought in to lead forces and a fast-track scheme for business leaders and former Army officers could halve the time taken to reach the top job from the current 20 to 25 years.
The move could see officers leading police forces in their 30s, instead of in their 40s.
Theresa May, the Home Secretary, will also unveil plans to change the law to enable candidates such as American "supercop" Bill Bratton, the former head of the New York Police, to fight crime in the UK.
Mr Bratton, who was blocked from applying for the role of Metropolitan Police Commissioner two years ago amid objections that his appointment would have torn up the convention that British citizens should police their own communities, has indicated that he would be interested in leading London's force.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Green that that the UK will have a foreign chief constable or commissioner in "years rather than decades".
He compared the situation to the appointment of Mark Carney, a Canadian, as the Governor of the Bank of England.
"If five years ago you'd said, 'Can you envisage the governor of the Bank of England talking to you in a Canadian accent?' we would have thought, 'That's a bit odd'," Mr Green said.
"But actually Mark Carney is, I am told, the best central banker in the world and it's great that he's going to apply those talents in this country and the same will be true of senior policemen around the world as well."
Mr Green said that allowing foreigners to lead British police forces will allow UK forces to become "even better in the future".
"It will happen," he said. "We're consulting on how best to do it but I think bringing in new talent so that our very, very good police service becomes even better in the future is absolutely essential to continue the reform that has successfully led to a fall in crime in this country."
The Government reforms would also end the requirement for officers to work their way up from the lowest ranks, and seek to recruit more graduates and former Army officers.
There were reports that David Cameron had wanted Mr Bratton to take over as Met Police Commissioner following the resignation of Sir Paul Stephenson over the phone hacking scandal.
Mr Bratton was credited with cutting crime in New York with his "zero tolerance" approach to crime, including minor offences, when he was in charge of America's two largest police departments in New York and Los Angeles, as well as in Boston.
Derek Barnett, president of the Police Superintendents' Association, said: "The Home Secretary's proposals send out a very strong message that the senior leadership of the police service isn't valued or trusted or else she wouldn't be wanting to bring in foreign police chiefs.
"Bringing people in at superintendent level, inexperienced, unqualified, will bring some risks with them
"You don't reach the senior ranks of the police service by sitting in the classroom for 15 to 16 months."


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The Gospel concludes the journey of Jesus to Jerusalem that was inaugurated by the healing of a blind man (8:22-26), which symbolizes the journey of discipleship for followers of Jesus. It also provides a contrast to the failure of the disciples throughout the journey and presents a mini-drama of the path to faith. The narrative erupts with action. The blind man sits begging; he hears and cries out with a cry for saving help, Jesus, Son of David have mercy [pity] on me. Many, most likely the followers of Jesus from Mk 10:46, rebuke him, but Jesus stops and simply says call him. Others speak out and tell the blind man, Take courage; Jesus is calling you. Bartimaeus then throws off his cloak, jumps up and comes to Jesus. In response to Jesus' simple question, What do you want? he says, That I may see. Echoing his earlier response to the suffering woman (5:34), Jesus says, Go your way; your faith has saved you, but the man does not go his way; he follows on the way with Jesus.
Bartimaeus is one of those little people of faith in Mark who embodies true discipleship in contrast to the blundering disciples. The narrative may also reflect stages in the journey of faith of many in Mark's community. A person is in dire need, blind and begging; he or she hears of Jesus, utters a prayer for help, meets strong opposition, but persists in prayer (kept calling); others in the community help the person and speak of the call of Jesus; Bartimaeus throws aside his cloak (symbolizing perhaps the baptismal divesting); a meeting with Jesus brings the gift of sight, and the person becomes a disciple.
This Gospel could be an acted parable of journeys to faith for many people who are being initiated into the church as adults. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults and other programs that help nominal or lapsed Catholics to return are among the most vital movements in the church today. These are Scripture-based, as people hear of Jesus, and generally are lay directed. Millions of people at different stages of life sit by some road, not able to see where they are going. Through friends or by other promptings of God's Spirit, they hear of Jesus; opposition often follows. Still others enter their isolated world with encouragement (take courage); they throw off many old garments and come directly to Christ and hear his saving voice saying simply that their faithi.e., their loving trust and hope in the face of oppositionwill make them whole (save them). They become disciples in a community of disciples. These programs of entrance and return not only witness to the conversion of people to a deep understanding of God's mercy and love; they also convert the converters, who as companions on the journey find their own faith revitalized.


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England won the toss and elected to field against Bangladesh in the Super Eights match at the Kensington Oval here on Wednesday.
England remained unchanged from their seven-wicket defeat against Australia in Antigua on Sunday, while Bangladesh brought back vice-captain Shahriar Nafees in place of Javed Omar from their team which upset South Africa by 67 runs in Georgetown, Guyana last week.
England: Michael Vaughan (capt), Andrew Strauss, Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Paul Nixon, Ravi Bopara, Sajid Mahmood, James Anderson, Monty Panesar
Bangladesh: Habibul Bashar (capt), Shahriar Nafees, Tamim Iqbal, Aftab Ahmed, Saqibul Hasan, Mohammad Ashraful, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mohammad Rafique, Abdur Razzak, Mashrafe Mortaza, Syed Rasel
|Simon Taufel (AUS) and Steve Bucknor (WIS)
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|Rudi Koertzen (RSA)
|Reserve umpire:
|Billy Bowden (NZL)
|Match referee:
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Female squash blossom
First time growers of the cucurbit family, which includes all those plants mentioned in the title, as well as other melons and gourds, often run into problems when the plant does not set fruit, one solution to this is through hand pollination.
Flowers on these plants are either male or female. The plants almost always produce male flowers first or more often, because it takes less energy to produce a male blossom than a female one, female ones usually come second, once the plant has grown larger and stored more energy. So often a new gardener will be alarmed that at first their plant is producing all these flowers, but never any fruit, not realizing they're just male flowers. Not all plants have different sexed flowers. Some other species carry both parts in a single flower structure, other plants (such as kiwi) might on the whole be either male or female and every flower on the plant will be either always male or always female. But the squash family produces separate male and female flowers on the same vine.
You can very easily tell male flowers apart from female ones. In addition to the inner bits being different, male flowers arise from a skinny stem whereas on female flowers there is a miniature fruit just behind the flower. In the below pictures, which are of a yellow summer squash plant, you should be able to easily identify which flower is which.
Female squash blossom
Assuming you're getting female flowers and not just male flowers, but rather than growing in side the little fruits on the female flowers seem to whither away, your problem is likely insufficient pollination. The fix for this is to hand pollinate your blossoms.
There are three ways to hand pollinate plants in this family. The first is to use a clean unused paintbrush. Simply wiggle it inside the male blossoms to pick up pollen, then wiggle it inside the female blossoms to deposit it. You can also use a Q-tip to achieve the same result. Finally, you can snip off the male flower from the vine, remove the petals to expose the anther, which is the little male bit with the pollen in the middle of the flower, and, well, simply stud that flower out by rubbing the anther inside against the stigmas (girl parts, pollen receptors) of your female flowers. Hand pollination is best done in the morning before it gets too hot.
Sometimes bees and other insects don't do the trick 100%, and you need to resort to hand pollination. It may not be an option if you're a farmer growing a whole field, but for the home gardener it works.
By the way, assuming you used the brush or Q-tip method, when you're all done the plant no longer has a need for male blossoms, but they are excellent eaten. They are incredibly perishable, best eaten mere hours after picking, so can be hard to find at stores, however they are awesome stuffed, battered, and fried (try stuffing with spicy cheesy polenta, use a frosting piping bag to fill it), battered and fried empty, or just sauteed. Obviously cucumber blossoms aren't big enough for this, but either winter or summer squash (which includes zucchini) work great. You can also eat the female blossoms, but most don't because if you did you would never get any fruit from the vine.
I have yet to feel the need to hand pollinate anything in the squash family. I get more than I can handle. Perhaps it's because I plant wildflowers along the edge of the garden which attract bees.
Great article! Thanks for sharing this!
My garden is in planters and pots on my deck. When I first planted last year it seemed no bees would come. I resorted to hand pollinating my tomatoes…But eventually the bees did come thanks goodness. I think they're better at it than I am1


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Ken Cohn led a consulting project that made collaboration between the medical staff and administration possible. Leaders from each department in the hospital presented to the Medical Advisory Panel which was composed of a broad representation from the medical staff. The result of this structured dialogue was four major clinical initiatives of importance to the majority of the medical staff, which were endorsed by the administration and approved by the board of directors.
Robert Schott, M.D.
Co-chair of the Medical Advisory Panel and Chairman of Cardiology
Sutter Medical Center Sacramento
The dance of the blind reflex prevents participants from seeing the enabling role they play in the conditions they deplore. With their carefully edited cases and analyses, Dr. Cohn and Mr. Fellows have skillfully addressed the elephant in the room— subjects that everyone else tiptoes around. I look forward to making their book available to my second-year graduate students in my capstone course.
Leonard H. Friedman, PhD
Professor and Director, Department of Health Services, Management, and Leadership, The George Washington University
Sometimes it feels like we still live in a wild-west habitat of hospital–physician relations. This book showcases stories and insights that can help any healthcare organization depersonalize differences to improve care. Each chapter offers key insights that help us move closer to relationships that best help those we serve— our patients and families.
Ruth W. Brinkley
President/CEO Carondelet Health Network
As a surgeon, department chair emeritus, and board member, I have lived through the challenges that Dr. Cohn describes in his book. Collaboration sounds simple, but is rarely easy. Dr. Cohn's book, as usual, is clear, succinct and on point. I hope this book will help to improve honest interaction among physicians, administrators, nurses and board members and ultimately promote improved care for our communities.
Dean Milos, MD, SCMD
Practicing Surgeon & Board Member
Chapter 14 is a very successful story in a situation that most seasoned healthcare administrators have been a part of in their careers. The distinguishing characteristic that makes this chapter different from other books on this subject is that the "sidebars" read like well thought out "recipes for success" and allow the reader immediate access to these tools and techniques for their own situations.
The stakes are very high when the knowledge and skills of all team members are not optimal; and fortunately, this situation had a "burning platform" that did not cause harm to the patients. The information in this chapter about the cost of staff and physician turnover and the correlation between quality and staff turnover is well-written.
Ms. Erin Yale
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Finally, a book that tells the truth about how the lack of collaboration undermines our nation's medical centers and how true collaboration, as opposed to disguised control, can save us time, expense and needless lives lost. Implementing just one of the strategies described in this book can make a tremendous difference for physicians, facilities and most importantly, patients.
Mark F. Weiss
Healthcare Attorney
Advisory Law Group
Getting It Done provides some applicable "real-world" scenarios of what happens on the front lines. While technology may help advance the capability of providing healthcare, it does not negate the use of old-fashioned but affirmative positive communication and collaboration.
Colleen Stukenberg MSN, RN, CMSRN, CCDS
Clinical Documentation Management Professional
Author, Successful Collaboration in Healthcare: A Guide for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinical Documentation Specialists
21st century healthcare leaders need to move beyond strategies and tactics that have worked in the past. They need to adapt to changes using new skills which include actively listening and learning from one another. Reading the stories in this book gives me hope that it will happen during my lifetime. These stories profile leaders who have adapted to create new and innovative models and structures.
Michele M. Molden
EVP, Chief Transformation Officer
Piedmont Healthcare
To improve performance and safety is a goal shared by all teams in all hospitals. However, the "human" element is often the "elephant in the room" which is invisible despite being in plain sight of all involved in dysfunctional hospital units. Dysfunction may start from a single individual, but it spreads faster than C. difficile, rapidly crippling the normal function and risking patient well being and safety. A model intervention, developed by the experienced teams described in this book, that can be rapidly implemented is a boon to hospital care, administration and most importantly, patient safety.
Jimmie C. Holland, MD
Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Actions speak louder than words, and Getting It Done is all about taking action. Cohn and Fellows demonstrate impact through action by providing thought-provoking, real life examples of what our health system could be if we effectively collaborate and align stakeholder incentives to meet our shared goals. With the noise level on health reform rapidly on the rise, this book could not have been timelier.
Gautam Gulati, MD, MBA, MPH
Founder & Chief Idea Experimenter
Gulati Group
This book has the best chance of any for improving how hospitals operate. For the first time, physicians and hospital leaders have a collaborative, evidence-based approach to delivering greater care at lower cost. From the administrative level to the way care is delivered this book enables hospitals to make a huge cultural shift toward consistently better care. The authors have created actionable, tested clinical and administrative strategies and procedures drawn directly from the experience research of medical and healthcare leaders from across the country. As a former Wall Street Journal reporter who covered healthcare and who has spent the past eight years researching and crafting collaborative strategies and communication I believe the book is so practical and well-researched that it can unite hospitals around a common vision and, more importantly, collective action.
Kare Anderson, Leader, Collaborative Strategies
Center for the Edge, Deloitte


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First air drop test of a thermonuclear weapon. The weapon was dropped from a USAF B-52 bomber (not seen) that flew from Fred Island, Eniwetak (sometimes spelled Enewetak or Eniewetok), on May 21, 1956. View appears to be from an aircraft flying above altocumulus clouds, below higher stratiform layers. The film begins with a complete whiteout from the initial fireball. As that subsides, local stratiform clouds take on a rosy hue and the center fireball is seen rising above them. As the fireball rises, it takes on a somewhat hemispherical shape, flat on the bottom, from which a straight stem-like column extends toward the ground. The light of the explosion slowly fades and complete darkness ensues. Official accounts state that the intended ground zero was directly over Namu Island, but the flight crew mistook an observation facility on a different island for their targeting beacon with the result that the weapon delivery was grossly in error. The bomb detonated some 4 miles off target over the ocean northeast of Namu. As a result essentially all of the weapons effects data was lost. ( Note: According to ancillary reports, the delivery error resulted in blast overpressures and thermal effects on the 6 structural response targets between Iroij and Namu Islands, greatly exceeding specifications for any use in scientific military modeling of high yield aerial detonations. Plans for graded damages analysis failed when all the structures collapsed. Effects cameras also failed from the intense fireball heat.)
Shows one of the many raydist site (HF & MF relay station) situated on the Bikini and Eniwetok atolls in Marshall Islands,Pacific Ocean . Aircraft carrier, USS Badoeng Strait in the Pacific Ocean. Several receiving antennas near radar trailers on the aircraft carrier. Radar dish on top of trailers on the Bikini atoll. Man checks radar antenna on top of trailer. Aerial shots of shoreline radar installations, an AFB and living quarters located on lagoon. Several United States Aircrafts that participated in Project Red Wing can be seen on the AFB.
Nuclear detonation on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean as part of the Operation Red Wing. A resultant mushroom cloud. Scenes of landing of several USAF-aircraft like B-52,B-47,B-66, B-57 on a United States AFB situated on the Eniwetok atoll (sometimes spelled Enewetak or Eniewetok) in Marshall Islands. Shows the aircraft carrier USS Badoeng Strait in Northwestern Pacific Ocean. Several US-airplanes like F-84F, F-101, B-52 and B-36 can be seen on the AFB. Maintenance crew can be seen working on a B-52's (Stratofortress) engines. Men working on the nose and wing section of a F-101 Voodoo. Technician working on the F-101's electronics equipment, opens its nose dome to reveal photo panel radiation gauges. Airman removes motion picture camera from the nose of F101. Technicians work at the instrumental panel of a B-57. Radiometer attached at tail section of B-66. Technician removes dust for radiation sample. Technicians work on the horizontal stabilizer of B-47 tail section.
Aerial view of mushroom cloud rising from detonation of atomic bomb in Test Able of the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. The mushroom cloud rises straight up from the Bikini Lagoon. Bikini Atoll visible in background.
The damage caused due to an atom bomb test during Operation Crossroads on Bikini Atoll in Micronesian islands, Marshall Islands. An aircraft carrier sinks. Damaged aircraft carrier. Damage caused to Bikini atoll. A damaged destroyer. Some of the damage of the destroyer. Aircraft on the carrier and water being sprayed on it. A destroyer and the fire fighting equipment in operation. Aircraft carrier tilting on one side. Aircraft carrier sinks.
U.S. sailors aboard a ship during Operation Crossroads (Atomic Bomb Test "Able") by the United States on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Sailors on the deck of the ship off the coast of Bikini Atoll. Two men wear head sets. Sailors cradle their arms across their face as the Able Day atomic explosion occurs on the atoll. A mushroom cloud rises. Sailors watch from the deck of the ship. A target fleet in the distant background.