http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com This is my review of the HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition netbook. It runs Windows XP SP3, and in the configuration I was sent, costs $724 USD directly from HP. It has an Intel 1.6 Ghz Atom CPU, 1 GB of RAM, a 60 GB 4200 RPM hard drive, an SDHC card reader, two USB ports, 802.11 b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 3-cell battery. Watch for the follow-up written Q&A review with the person who has used this most...my wife! It will be published on Digital Home Thoughts.
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significance of bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki: Nuclear Bomb Effects Hiroshima Film
Tale of Two Cities is a famous American-produced film about the aftermath of the devastating nuclear weapon attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima from World War 2. The powerful footage shows the destruction of the two cities months after the attacks, including ground zero and the shadows of vaporized people. The film is punctuated by interviews with locals, including atomic bomb survivors. The narration hints at the guilt that America as a country felt after the attacks, with the dubious claim (repeated twice) that the bombs had been detonated at a high enough elevation that fallout would not harm the populace. A pillar of American and World history, Tale of Two Cities is a gripping examination of the first atomic bomb explosions and the death and destruction they caused.
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1948 Women in War Nazi Exploitation Film Virginia Christine
Women in the Night is a dramatic exposé of the treatment that women received throughout Nazi controlled territories during World War II. In Shanghai, the Nazis have taken over and rounded up women of all different ethnicities and backgrounds. They plan to use the women as “comfort girls” to entertain the local Japanese fascist leaders. This is a story of courageous women who band together and do everything within their power to undermine their evil captors. The group finds a leader in the classically beautiful Virginia Christine. They soon realize that their situation is more dire than they’d assumed, as the Nazis have developed a weapon even more powerful than the atomic bomb! Spies, murders, weapons of mass destructions, and world politics come flying as the climax is approached, but ultimately the film is about strong women who refuse to surrender.
This 1950s U.S. Army training film deals specifically with the psychological trauma that soldiers who witness mass casualties on the battlefield due to a nuclear attack would experience. Far from adequately prepping military officers for a post-apocalyptic disaster and its emotional scarring aftermath, the film informs its audience that nervousness, confusion, and sadness can all be expected as a normal part of dealing with such a catastrophe. Don't dwell on the destruction of nuclear weapons and atomic bombs, the film claims! A soldier can soon recover from this mental trauma and get back out on the front. Laughably, the only physical effects that are touched upon deal with minor burns. Management of Mass Casualties provides an astonishing examination of military psychology in the 1950s.
Google Tech Talks July 24, 2008 ABSTRACT Faculty Summit 2008 - Day 1 Google Data - Mark Stahl & Jeff Fisher This presentation will give an overview of the Atom Publishing Protocol, a simple but powerful way of publishing and interacting with data stored on the web. The Atom Publishing Protocol is used as the basis of the Google Data APIs, which provide programmatic access to several Google applications. We will demonstrate a simple example that uses a web application to crowdsource the semantic labeling of image content. Data is both retrieved and published via Data APIs. We will also show how to publish the results of this example as an AtomPub API, and discuss ways you can use AtomPub as the mechanism for sharing your own data. Speaker: Mark Stahl Speaker: Jeff Fisher
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1961 Mad Scientist Erotic Dancer Monster Disfigurement Film
Atom Age Vampire is an Italian-made production also known as Seddock, L'Ereda de Satana. In it, a young and beautiful exotic dancer is disfigured in a car accident. A mad doctor uses a new treatment to restore her beauty; however, one of the side effects of the treatment is that she periodically becomes a monster. He continues, however, to give her the treatments since he has fallen in love with her. Unfortunately, the treatment itself is derived from the bodies of other women, who must be murdered so the doctor can harvest what he needs. In the end, the police and the disfigured girl’s boyfriend target the doctor for his misdeeds.
Narrated by actor Glenn Ford, this brilliantly produced documentary made by CBS is of a mock evacuation of Portland, Oregon during a nuclear attack. The film shows how a typical American city can evacuate its citizens in a safe and timely manner when under threat of an atomic bomb assault. A wonderful piece of the history of the atomic bomb, the film utilizes expert timing and narration to elicit a feeling of dread and suspense that would accompany such a disaster. But organization and readiness are stressed, allowing the emergency to be coped with. This is a great civil defense film and one of the best movies in Portland ever shot that details the evacuation routes and emergency procedures necessary to keep a city safe against the threat of nuclear war.
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Mad Scientist Movie: The Atomic Brain (1964) aka Monstrosity
If the name The Atomic Brain didn’t tip you off, this film is gruesome science fiction at its campiest. This vintage piece of “bad” cinema is as great to laugh at as it is creepy. It’s so wonderfully bad that it aired on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Morbid, sick, sexy, and silly, the story revolves around an old woman who coaxes her mad scientist lover to transfer her brain into the body of a young vixen. But first she must find the hottest girl! In a bizarre sort of beauty pageant, young women are conned into the house where they’re then appraised. The mixture of sex, fake science, exploitation, bad acting, and pure ridiculousness make The Atomic Brain the perfect unintentional comedy.
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Atomic Energy and Nuclear Power Film: A is for Atom (1953)
A is for Atom, an award winning short film, promotes the peacetime applications of atomic energy. The animated residents of Element Town illustrate nuclear fission â the process of an atom splitting that produces byproducts, including massive amounts of nuclear energy. The film is a cutesy plug for all the advantages of nuclear power while answering the question "what is an atom?" Known for its destruction in the past, atomic energy is represented as a harmless figure, which, with âmanâs wisdom, on his firmness in the use of that power,â can be controlled and purposed for better things. Nuclear medicine is one of the stressed uses. Still an effective teaching resource today, A is for Atom is a clever depiction of the history of the atom that will entertain children and adults with its 1950's style presentation of what nuclear fission reactions could mean for the future of America.
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Spy Movies: Flight to Nowhere DVD, Atomic Bomb Espionage
Flight to Nowhere is an exemplar of post World War II action and espionage films: bring on the foreign countesses, double agents, and briefcases with atomic secrets! The dashing Alan Curtis stars as an ex-FBI agent who happens to pilot a private plane transporting several spies and various government emissaries who’ve stolen top secret information on uranium deposits. Hollywood horror movie queen Evelyn Ankers is also along for the ride. As Curtis figures out that the nuclear secrets are to be sold to the highest bidder, the plane gets landed in the middle of nowhere and murder ensues! Dangerous, vicious, and insidious, Flight to Nowhere is a thrilling spy adventure.
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An Introduction to Radiation Detection Instruments (1950s)
Trailer: This educational radiation film shows how radiation detection devices - such as “RADIAC” instruments - are used to measure the ionization of radiation amounts not visible to the human eye. The movie discusses how and when certain instruments are best utilized and includes footage of pocket dosimeters, Geiger counters, and workers being inspected for radiation.
This is our pilot episode of the upcoming weekly feature Meet Cleaver Theatre: Sub-Atomic. It features a super short trailer for the film: "Gold Told Me To" and mentions the website iGod as well. It is not on our website and may never be published for mass consumption, as it is an experiment to check chroma-key, TRT etc.
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Scientist John Hopkins On Atomic Energy & Submarines (1952)
Special guest John J. Hopkins joins the editorial panel on the Longines Chronoscope to discuss atomic energy and the jet industry, as well as the United States’ relationship with Canada. Hopkins speaks about harnessing atomic energy to power submarines and other electrically operated machines. While atomic energy is progress, it is dangerous and must be handled with caution. Hopkins feels that the United States and Canada benefit from each other and share many of the same opportunities. Within the next few years, Hopkins predicts the usage of jet airplanes for travel. See the full length video at: www.qualityinformationpublishers.com
SEE MORE ON VBS TV: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/motherboard/the-atomic-trucker John Coster-Mullen takes a break from trucking to build his own nuke. John Coster-Mullen drives a truck for a living and reverse-engineers America's early nuclear weapons in his spare time. Last year he published a book on how to build your own atom bomb. SEE MORE ON DELL LOUNGE: www.delllounge.com
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Stay Safe, Stay Strong The Facts About Nuclear Weapons â60
This film was produced in order to educate U.S. Air Force members about atomic bombs. Through a combination of animation and stock footage of actual bomb tests, the bombs themselves are thoroughly explained and described. The film then sets out to dispel the âmythâ that atomic bombs can be dangerous in peacetime. In a striking example of American propaganda, the film shows various situations during which a bomb might be dropped or otherwise damaged during peaceable transport and reassures the audience that the explosions that might result are not dangerous in any way. This film was an attempt to calm and reassure US Air Force pilots about the dangers of nuclear weapons, nuclear attacks and about nuclear war in general.
Produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films, this video seeks to educate American schoolchildren on how to take cover in the event of a nuclear warning or attack. The child safety tips are dated and hilarious, consider what little help covering up is against a nuclear weapon or a nuclear explosion. Three different situations are shown, including when children are at school, at home, or at a playground. Children are shown cowering against buildings and hiding in basements. Fictional characters, Sue and Ted, are shown at home alone during an attack. The narrator even recommends that children caught outside far from home enter a random house for shelter, advising them that âstrangers will understand.â The film also gives a simplified explanation of how nuclear bombs work throughout the lessons on child home safety. This is a classic Cold War era propaganda film that is light on atomic bomb facts and heavy on reassuring government rhetoric.
SEE MORE ON VBS TV: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/motherboard/the-atomic-trucker John Coster-Mullen takes a break from trucking to build his own nuke. John Coster-Mullen drives a truck for a living and reverse-engineers America's early nuclear weapons in his spare time. Last year he published a book on how to build your own atom bomb. SEE MORE ON DELL LOUNGE: www.delllounge.com
IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. This result, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), signals a significant step forward in tools for molecular biology and nanotechnology by offering the ability to study complex 3D structures at the nanoscale. By extending MRI to such fine resolution, the scientists have created a microscope that, with further development, may ultimately be powerful enough to unravel the structure and interactions of proteins, paving the way for new advances in personalized healthcare and targeted medicine. This achievement stands to impact the study of materials from proteins to integrated circuits for which a detailed understanding of atomic structure is essential.
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Wildfire Kids Safety: Fire! Patty Learns What to Do (1951)
In Fire! Patty Learns What to Do, filmmakers use the tragic Chatsworth California fire of 1947 to give fire safety instruction. At the time, San Fernando Valley lost 50 homes to the fire damage, which was finally extinguished on the Garman family farm. The film focuses on how the Garmans, including their children, helped to stop the fire. The Los Angeles fire chief illustrates techniques and rules for fire prevention training geared toward children. In one scene describing fire hazards, he does so by lighting a doll on fire! Don McNamara, narrator, advises children to expect fires after earthquakes and atomic bombings, hinting at the post world war 2 a-bomb hysteria. Fire! Patty Learns What to Do is a sweet bit of vintage Americana that's great for improving family safety and preventing burn injuries.
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StumbleUpon Inks More Deals with Web Video Publishers
http://www.beet.tv/2008/11/stumbleupon-ink.html StumbleUpon, the content recommendation site owned by eBay, has extended it premium service to several new publishers including Funny Or Die, Atom, Scientific American, and 5min.com, according to a report in CNET this morning. In June, I caught up with founder Garrett Camp for an overview on how his service works and the value StumbleUpon provides to publishers. I've republished the interview today. Here is the company's press release. -- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer
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