Battery Operated Televisions

What can I do with my battery operated handheld television now that analog TVs are obsolete? I was wondering if analog battery operated televisions can still be of any use now that the signals have been switched over to digital. I know you can't get any TV stations but I was thinking it could be possible to turn it into something else like a police scanner. Mine is a Casio TV-970

Where can I buy a battery operated television for Hurricane Season? I would like to buy a small battery operated television to watch the local weather during the Hurricane.

New digital TV service for battery operated TVs? I have a small hand held 3.5" screen television that works on batteries. It is at least 5 years old. Do I have to throw it away when the new digital signal is put into place? I also have another larger B&W 8" one that we use for electrical blackout emergencies. It is also at least 5 years old.

Would you by a battery-operated car? There was a guy from the Wall Street Journal on television last night (I can't remember his name, I was in the kitchen cooking when I heard him talking) who said this: "If we give the auto industry this money, there will be provisions...One of those provisions will be to create battery-operated 'green' cars, to appease the Democrats and make the government look good (like they're trying to do something about global warming and energy self-sufficency)...It will look good on paper, and it will sound good to the public, but in reality people will not buy these cars in mass quantities, that's not what the auto buying market tells us...Americans like vehicles with power...After the auto makers spend billions of dollars producing these vehicles, they will have a hard time selling them, then they will fail again" That's not word for word, but it was the best I could do. Think about this seriously for a minute...I know you care about the environment and all of that, but would you buy a battery-operated car?...Honestly and truly?...Or is this guy from the Wall Street Journal completely off his rocker? You guys know you can't edit these things after you hit the submit button...I didn't notice the typo until it was too late. And I really don't think very many people would BUY these things...I know I wouldn't.

just for laughs..Hurricane survival tips!? In light of the visit we recently recieved from Ike I thought these were very cute and believe me when I tell you most are also very true! coffee and frozen pizzas can be made on a BBQ grill. Hot pockets taste pretty good deep fried on the outdoor cooker! My car gets 23.21675 miles per gallon, EXACTLY (you can ask the people in line who helped me push it). He who has the biggest generator wins. A new method of non-lethal torture -- showers without hot water. TV is an addiction and the withdrawal symptoms are painful. Flood plain drawings on some mortgage documents were seriously wrong. People will get into a line that has already formed without having any idea what the line is for. Cell phones work when land lines are down, but only as long as the battery remains charged. Hampers were not made to contain such a volume. If I had a store that sold only ice, chainsaws, gas and generators... I'd be rich. Waterfront property can quickly become someone else's fishing hole. Tree service companies are underappreciated. MATH 101: 30 days in month, minus 10 days without power equals 30% higher electric bill?? I can walk a lot farther than I thought. Heat makes you be brutally honest!!!! A MUST for all blackouts with kids... GLOWSTICKS! It is a great time to teach the children the fine art of gambling (penny ante poker) card playing. You can never have too many gas cans! 7 dogs that do not normally live together still do not get along during a hurricane.they have no comprehension of sharing. Suddenly you realize you DO have neighbors! Neighbors are much more sociable when your trees are being removed from their houses. That neighbor who knows how to use a chainsaw is your new best friend. What looks acceptable by candlelight in your bathroom will scare you when you look at yourself in the mirror at the office Coffee is NOT a luxury - it's a staple! And withdrawal is hell! Rather than campfires, you find families huddled about tiny battery-operated televisions to watch The Simpsons. Peanut butter and jelly is a perfectly acceptable meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner in the same day. Ice is a form of currency. Coming home from work with a pizza and a charged-up laptop so the kids can watch a DVD makes you a hero. You run out of things to barbecue after Day 3. Hair can dry without a blow dryer, but it may not look the way you planned. Baseball caps go with any post-hurricane ensemble. You can't train yourself not to flip on light switches when entering a room. Lukewarm is the new cold. It's easier to ignore a dirty house when you can't see it A new opening phrase when seeing someone: 'Got lights yet?' Daydreaming consists of thinking about what you will do when the freak'n power comes back on!

Does this make you feel bad for Roger Clemens? http://www.nypost.com/seven/09232008/news/regionalnews/rockets_sad_stare_130357.htm I mean, really, the writing was overly dramatic. Here's (I think) the "best" part of the article... "Clemens was sitting at home in hurricane-ravaged Texas, in front of a battery-operated television on his living room couch, when the team delivered a final crushing blow to its former star. Clutching wife Debbie's hand on one side and mother-in-law Jan Wild's on the other, Clemens tuned in to his final team's last home game hoping for some recognition for helping win two World Series titles, Wild said. But that Rocket never launched." ---- Was the purpose of that article to make us sympathize with Roger Clemens?

Portable TV use after digital programming switch? How will I use my small portable battery operated black & white television after the switch to all digital broadcasting? I live in a rural area and our electricity goes out frequently. During a storm or another disaster, this TV is my only way to see impending weather or emergency instructions. Please help!

DIGITAL TV mandatory signal changes coming in 2009, does anyone have a SIMPLE explanation of what will happen? When the the electric goes out, will we be able to use our emergency battery operated TV's ? Do I have to buy new TV sets ? Do I have to hook up to cable, dish or some other expensive outlet to watch (what has always been FREE) television? When and why was this law passed and who will profit from this change?

How can something that operates off of batteries interfere with a television cable signal 5 feet away?

portable television? Does anyone know what will become of small handheld televisions or small emergency tv's that run off of batteries when the signals switch to all digital? It's not like you can put a converter box on it. I am from New Orleans and during Katrina with no power the battery operated tv was one of the few ways of staying up to date.

The idiotic changeover to "All-Digital" TV: Can the new administration change it? The "reason" (beyond the ridiculous change of 'improved quality') is that the analog signal would potentially interfere with CD emergency broadcasts on the VHF and UHF frequencies. But the real reason is that the frequencies were sold -- to the cellphone companies, I heard. The point is that in times of real emergency there may well be no electricity, and so none of the line-powered "converter boxes" will work, nor will any plug-in televisions. So much for Civil Defense broadcasts. In peacetime, this means your battery operated TV's will not work in your backyard, when you go camping, on your boat, etc., etc. With WIFI and wireless becoming a must for every electronic gizmo, you'd think people would see through the propaganda. We are going straight backwards, irretrievably -- much like the selling of the electric and water infrastructure of Iraq to Halliburton before the invasion sent us in there. Obviously the poor and elderly will suffer as well, despite the offer of "discount coupons" we see being advertised as a smokescreen. I spoke to a representative of the FCC at a Brooklyn, NY town meeting to introduce and explain the scheme, and was surprised to hear that the FCC had nothing to do with the change, which was forced on them by the government itself. According to the FCC's representative there, the agency was fundamentally against the change, but had no choice once the order was given except to inform the public as best they could. So the question is, assuming the Obama government can stop the change due for mid-February (after the inauguration), how would you begin to lobby for such a thing to take place, when there is so little time? Won't even address the "picture quality" argument, except to say that it IS nicer to drive a Ferrari than a Volkswagen -- so what? As to it being a "minor issue", I'm not ashamed to say that I am among the many for whom TV is my primary source of information and entertainment. Sure, emergency broadcasts can be has on radio. But how many people still own a transistor, and why would we want to go back to the '60s anyway? The program is like offering a coupon to buy a new car that runs on diesel. How about people -- the MANY people like me who don't WANT to change, or can't? Once again: over-the -air TV is a necessary resource in times of emergency, and as a resident of Florida I know what I'm talking about. This change will eliminate that resource, not enhance it. Those that want Home Theater are welcome to it! All I want access is what has always been a FREE public service without being tied to the wall-socket.

do you like christmas or? Is it just not the same anymore? for instance when I was a small child we had very little for choice of what to have for christmas I remember once getting a slinky and appreciating it my brother got a game where you had to flick frogs and try to make them land in a bowl/saucer. and for a joint prezzie we got that fantastic game mouse trap and some sweets and that was it. and as a gift to our mum we gave her a framed photo of her beloved dog copper.(we weren't members of the aristocracy as you may have guessed) in fact we were quite poor. nowadays tho television seems to do it's very best to belittle you into buying as much as possible for your kids and if you dont they behave like a degenerate until you rush off out and buy the most expensive battery operated remote control car just so they can chase the cat round the room with it forcing poor kitty to climb the curtains! whatever happened to a nice christmas where the family having a good time and being together really mattered?

Question about digital TV ( read on)? We all know now the television signals are now digital and old fashioned "rabbit ears " won't work anymore, but I have a question about this. I live in South Florida and there is always a chance of being hit by a hurricane . During and after Hurricane Wilma we had no power for over two weeks. We relied on our battery operated TV for the slightest entertainment and news coverage. How will this work during natural disasters such as a hurricane and the like? Since the signal is digital and those battery operated Tv will no longer pick up the signals anymore. How will this now work during disaster times? Does anyone know?

Help me edit my story? Everybody says that it won’t happen to me. But when it does you can’t quite believe it. On June 11, 2008 the day started like any other day. Waking up to the sound of birds singing and the sizzle of eggs being cooked, I took a quick breakfast and when outside to go to the pool. The weather was fine that morning but during the afternoon clouds started gathering up. The pool lifeguard finished talking to the manager of the pool and came out to tell us that the pool was going to be closed because of bad weather. All of us sighed knowing that the money we just used was wasted and that we still had five more hours. I went home after that because there was nothing else that interested me. Walking home annoyed I went to my room. Then I turned on the television and looked for anything exciting. But to my avail nothing was on that interested me. So I turned on my computer and started playing the first game that came up. While I did this; unknown to my attention, a storm was brewing of epic proportions. Playing on the computer for a little while longer the power suddenly went off. Alone in my room I started searching for the flashlight in my drawer. I got it out, turned it on and started going down the stairs to the living room. Asking if anything else was working, my mom answered with a negation. I went back to my room and started to wonder what to do. While I was thinking about what to do, it occurred to me that I was really lucky to have electricity. I thought about what the world would be without electricity and what came to me was a grim nightmare. Looking at the time on my battery operated clock it said 4:00 P.M. and started reading a book. I couldn’t read so well with the flashlight on so I went outside to read. The sky outside was a freakish gray color but it wasn’t the clouds that upset me it was the air. Any normal person would think that with a storm there would be a lot of wind but as Looking at the air it was calm and peaceful. I went inside when the tornado siren blew. “Let’s go into the basement”, I said to my mom. My dad and my brother were in Wichita doing some program for Duke University. So that left my mom and two sisters with me. Going down to the basement we stayed there for about 15 minutes. Inside of the basement there was a small window with bars so that I could see outside. All of a sudden my ears started popping and the wind started to blow at tremendous speeds, this went on for about two minutes and then it stopped. Waiting for a while we made sure it was safe then we went out of the basement. At first there was nothing wrong inside of the house but we went outside and found to our amazement that there was trees everywhere. The lawn was trashed and the rain was awful. Some of our neighbors come out and asked if we were all right. “Yes we’re alright”, telling them of my approval. “Are you O.K.?”, Asking them. They answered with a yes but they told me that their father had been so scared that he went outside and got hit by a branch and that the paramedics took him to the hospital. The rain died down a little a few hours later so I went outside to see the full extent of the damage. Walking down main street I saw that the bank was damaged and glass was shattered everywhere. The side of the post office had collapsed and bricks were lying everywhere. The tennis court was lying everywhere and the electric lines were broken. I walked further down the street and saw that everywhere there was debris; it was as if Godzilla had stepped on. The time was around the middle of the night but everyone is was outside inspecting the damage. Police and ambulances were on Main Street looking for anyone hurt. “I heard someone died”, said someone from the crowd. “Yeah a girl named”, someone else said. Going back home I was told by the police to get out of the streets incase of live electric wires. When I got to my house I could not get to sleep because there was no light, no air conditioner, police sirens were on and the fear of another tornado hitting again. I finally did get to sleep but the time was already 6:00 a.m. Waking up to the sound of helicopters, sirens, and news crews, I went outside to look at the damage and to my amazement the city was completely trashed. I thought I saw everything that night but actually all the houses were damaged and most of the houses were gone, the schools gone, mostly everything in the middle of. Going to the Red Cross tent I got some Gatorade and some chips. Walking home I saw that the army had blocked off all entrances to in case of looters. The army had given families two days to get everything out of their houses. Two days passed and the army started letting volunteers into and that’s when the cleanup of started. I wasn’t their to help out because the next day I was getting ready to go to Egypt but that is a whole different story. But to say this when I came back everything was like it was before but without a lot of houses. Yeah I know I left

Forbidden Holiday Gifts (any addittions?)? Toy Soldier Nutcraker Chia Pet Sets (of any kind) Block Calendars Office desk-top Christmas Light w/no ornaments Fruit Cakes GA Lottery Tickets Discounted Perfume/Cologne Sets (unknown names of fragrances I wouldn’t put on a domestic pet) Leopard Pattern Cummerbund Homemade dubbed CDs of mixed holiday musicals Solar Powered Calculators Porcelain Figurines Rabbit Ear Television Antenna (why?) Fruity Flavored Candy Canes Scented Candle Sets “Yes We Can” 40-piece Dishware Set Soap/Bath/Lotion Gift Baskets Cheese/Sausage Gift Sets Coffee/Latte Mug Sets Holiday Designed Sweaters Near real-like Poinsettias Audio Cassette Tape of Christmas Music sung by Bing Crosby Boxed Chocolates (unless it’s Godiva’s) Holiday Lapel pins Mini-light (battery operated) Key Chains A pair of open Toe-Cowboy Boots Gift Certificates to McDonalds Imported (foreign) Crackers Jane Fonda Exercise Tapes (VHS or Beta format) Pet Rocks Christmas Socks Salt/Pepper or Spice Rack Set BMW Windshield Wiper Blades

Can electrical apliances affect laptops? I operate my laptop mainly on electric not batteries, but within approx. a half metre of my television: I always make sure telly s switched off at the socket, can this harm a laptop in any way being so close?

Algebra 1 H SAT Question(s)? 1. Every 5 months, Hal has to replace the batteries in his calculator. He changed them the first time in Mt. In what month will they be changed the 25th time? 2. The energy saved from 1 recycled aluminum can will operate a television set for 3 hours. How many aluminum cans would have to be recycled to furnish enough energy to operate 680 tv sets for 4.5 hours per day for 1 week? Please help. Thanks in advance.

The Eternal Struggle Part Two anyone do a third because my brain has gone dead? Menopause: When a woman reaches menopause, she goes through a variety of complicated emotional, psychological, and biological changes. The nature and degree of these changes varies with the individual. Menopause in a man provokes a uniform reaction -- he buys aviator glasses, a snazzy French cap and leather driving gloves, and goes shopping for a Porsche. The Telephone: Men see the telephone as a communication tool. They use the telephone to send short messages to other people. A woman can visit her girlfriend for two weeks, and upon returning home, she will call the same friend and they will talk for three hours. Offspring: Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best friends and favorite foods and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in his house. Low Blows: Let's say a man and a woman are watching a boxing match on television. One of the figures is felled by a low blow. The woman says, "Oh gee, that must hurt." The man doubles over and actually feels the pain. Directions: If a woman is out driving, and she finds herself in unfamiliar surroundings, she will stop at a gas station and ask for directions. Men consider this to be a sign of weakness. Men will never stop and ask for directions. Men will drive in a circle for hours, all the while saying things like, "Looks like I've found a new way to get there." and, "I know I'm in the general neighborhood. I recognize that White Hen store." Admitting Mistakes: Women will sometimes admit making a mistake. The last man who admitted he was wrong was General George Custer. Richard Gere Women like Richard Gere because he is sexy in a dangerous way. Men hate Richard Gere because he reminds them of that slick guy who works at the health club and dates only married women. Dressing Up: A woman will dress up to: go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail. A man will dress up for: weddings, funerals. Nicknames: With the exception of female body builders, who call each other names like "Ultimate Pecs" and "Big Turk," women eschew the use of nicknames. If Gloria, Suzanne, Deborah, and Michelle get together for lunch, they will call each other Gloria, Suzanne, Deborah, and Michelle. But if Mike, Dirk, Clint, and Jack go out for a brewski, they will affectionately refer to one another as Bullet-Head, Godzilla, Peanut-Brain, and Useless. Toys: Little girls love to play with toys. Then when they reach the age of 11 or 12, they lose interest. Men never grow out of their obsession with toys. As they get older, their toys simply become more expensive and silly and impractical. Examples of men's toys: little miniature TV's. Car phones. Complicated juicers and blenders. Graphic equalizers. Small robots that serve cocktails on command. Video games. Anything that blinks, beeps, and requires at least 6 "D" batteries to operate. Plants: A woman asks a man to water her plants while she is on vacation. The man waters the plants. The woman comes home five or six days later to an apartment full of dead plants. No one knows why this happens. Mustaches: Some men look good with mustaches. Those men are Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds. There are no women who look good with mustaches. Cameras: Men take photography very seriously. They'll shell out $4000 for state of the art equipment, and build dark rooms and take photography classes. Women purchase Kodak Instamatics. Of course women always end up taking better pictures. Locker Rooms: In the locker room men talk about three things: money, football, and women, They exaggerate about money, they don't know football nearly as well as they think they do, and they fabricate stories about women. Women talk about one thing in the locker room -- sex. And not in abstract terms, either. They are extremely graphic and technical, and they never lie. sana II Am Working on it WANNA HELP ME

Is my custom made Laptop good? To start, I have bought this laptop at the Black Friday sale. The website I bought it from was www.hp.com. It was only 580$ (tax included). It will arrive as soon as 2 weeks. All I want to know is these following question: Is the Graphics Card good? Is the Processor and the speed of the Processor good? Is the RAM good? Is the Hard Drive good? Should I have gotten a 320GB instead of the 250GB? Is the screen good? Is my operating system good? My battery life good? Does is play Television? I will only use this Laptop for basic needs. These are the components of my Laptop that I bought. Please, I need professionals to answer this question... Thank You. - HP Pavilion dv5t Entertainment Notebook - Onyx - Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit) - Pentium(R) Dual-Core Mobile Processor T3200 (2.0 GHz) - 15.4" diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800) - FREE Upgrade to 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) - Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD - FREE Upgrade to 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection - Webcam Only - HP Color Matching Keyboard - Wireless-G Card - No Modem - SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support - No TV Tuner w/remote control - 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery - Microsoft(R) Works 9.0 - HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope

Is my Custom Made Laptop good? To start, I have bought this laptop at the Black Friday sale. The website I bought it from was www.hp.com. It was only 580$ (tax included). It will arrive as soon as 2 weeks. All I want to know is these following question: Is the Graphics Card good? Is the Processor and the speed of the Processor good? Is the RAM good? Is the Hard Drive good? Should i have gotten a 320GB instead of the 250GB? Is the screen good? Is my operating system good? My battery life good? Does is play Television? I will only use this Laptop for basic needs. These are the components of my Laptop that I bought. Please, I need professionals to answer this question... Thank You. - HP Pavilion dv5t Entertainment Notebook - Onyx - Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit) - Pentium(R) Dual-Core Mobile Processor T3200 (2.0 GHz) - 15.4" diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800) - FREE Upgrade to 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) - Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD - FREE Upgrade to 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection - Webcam Only - HP Color Matching Keyboard - Wireless-G Card - No Modem - SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support - No TV Tuner w/remote control - 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery - Microsoft(R) Works 9.0 - HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope

Is My Customized Laptop Good? To start, I have bought this laptop at the Black Friday sale. The website I bought it from was www.hp.com. It was only 580$ (tax included). It will arrive as soon as 2 weeks. All I want to know is these following question: Is the Graphics Card good? Is the Processor and the speed of the Processor good? Is the RAM good? Is the Hard Drive good? Should i have gotten a 320GB instead of the 250GB? Is the screen good? Is my operating system good? My battery life good? Does is play Television? I will only use this Laptop for basic needs. These are the components of my Laptop that I bought. Please, I need professionals to answer this question... Thank You. - HP Pavilion dv5t Entertainment Notebook - Onyx - Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit) - Pentium(R) Dual-Core Mobile Processor T3200 (2.0 GHz) - 15.4" diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800) - FREE Upgrade to 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) - Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD - FREE Upgrade to 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection - Webcam Only - HP Color Matching Keyboard - Wireless-G Card - No Modem - SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support - No TV Tuner w/remote control - 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery - Microsoft(R) Works 9.0 - HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope

Is my Custom-Made Laptop Good? [Need Details]? To start, I have bought this laptop at the Black Friday sale. The website I bought it from was www.hp.com. It was only 580$ (tax included). It will arrive as soon as 2 weeks. All I want to know is these following question: Is the Graphics Card good? Is the Processor and the speed of the Processor good? Is the RAM good? Is the Hard Drive good? Should i have gotten a 320GB instead of the 250GB? Is the screen good? Is my operating system good? My battery life good? Does it play Television? I will only use this Laptop for basic needs. These are the components of my Laptop that I bought. Please, I need professionals to answer this question... Thank You. - HP Pavilion dv5t Entertainment Notebook - Onyx - Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit) - Pentium(R) Dual-Core Mobile Processor T3200 (2.0 GHz) - 15.4" diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800) - FREE Upgrade to 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) - Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD - FREE Upgrade to 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection - Webcam Only - HP Color Matching Keyboard - Wireless-G Card - No Modem - SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support - No TV Tuner w/remote control - 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery - Microsoft(R) Works 9.0 - HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope

i need help on these siece questions? can u plz help me with these questions? 1 . Electric charge that has built up in one place is called what kind of electricity? A. current B. circuit C. static D. current circuit 2 . Static discharge differs from an electric current in that a static discharge A. is a flow of electrons. B. lasts for only a fraction of a second. C. involves the movement of ions as well as electrons. D. results because a force is exerted on the electrons. 3 . Which of the following describes lightning? A. a very large discharge of static electricity B. a high voltage electric current C. a build up of neutrons D. harmless 4 . A circuit that has two or more separate paths for electrons to follow is a A. parallel circuit. B. series circuit. C. circuit diagram. D. electron circuit. 5 . Which is a path created for a current that allows only one route of travel? A. series current B. parallel current C. parallel circuit D. series circuit 6 . A material through which electrons do not readily flow is a(n) A. transformer. B. insulator. C. conductor. D. fuse. 7 . Resistance is measured using which unit? A. volts B. ohms C. coulombs D. amperes 8 . Which scientist discovered that "current is equal to the potential difference divided by the resistance"? A. Ohm B. Newton C. Faraday D. Watt 9 . A television that requires .40 ampere of current is operated on a 120-volt service for 5 hours. How much energy is used? A. .67 kWh B. .15 kWh C. .24 kWh D. 1.5 kWh 10 . Which of these contains a source of constant electric current? A. switch B. transformer C. dry cell D. wire 11 . Where is the location of the strongest magnetic forces in a magnet? A. atoms B. magnetic fields C. magnetic poles D. magnetic domains 12 . What is the region around a magnet where the magnetic forces are acting? A. magnetic field B. magnetic poles C. ammeters D. domains 13 . Which of the following describes the atoms in a magnet? A. They are positively charged. B. They are negatively charged. C. They are lined up according to their charges. D. They are arranged randomly. 14 . The function of a generator is to change A. electrical energy to mechanical energy. B. chemical energy to electrical energy. C. mechanical energy to electrical energy. D. electrical energy to chemical energy. 15 . What is a transformer called that increases voltage? A. step-up transformer B. resistance transformer C. step-down transformer D. voltage motor 16 . Current that does not reverse direction is called A. direct current. B. circuit current. C. magnetic current. D. alternating current. 17 . The function of an electric motor is to change A. electrical energy to chemical energy. B. mechanical energy to chemical energy. C. chemical energy to electrical energy. D. electrical energy to mechanical energy. 18 . A generator creates a 90-Hz alternating current. How many times does the current reverse each second? A. 45 times B. 180 times C. 90 times D. 360 times 19 . Which of the following produces direct current or DC? A. nuclear power plant B. hydroelectric dam C. wind turbine D. 12-volt battery 20 . Which of the following would not change the strength of an electromagnet? A. increasing the number of loops B. inserting an iron core inside the wire C. changing the current's direction D. increasing the amount of current

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A stupid lawsuit!!! WHO AGREES!?!? HMMM... WHAT DO YOU THINK??? A high school student who uses an electric wheelchair faces three misdemeanor charges for allegedly running over the toe of another student at school. Joshua Martinez told television station KDVR-TV Wednesday that he received a summons alleging assault, battery, and reckless endangerment for the incident at Rangeview View High School in the suburb east of Denver. Martinez said he does not remember the incident. Aurora police could not immediately provide additional information. A spokeswoman for Aurora Public Schools said she could not comment, citing student privacy. A police report obtained by the station quotes a school resource officer as saying Martinez sometimes had been reckless in operating his electric wheelchair, zipping around corners without slowing. Martinez told the station he uses the wheelchair, which resembles a mobility scooter, because of a form of cerebral palsy. He said does not go around purposely running over people

digital camera what memory type do I need Minolta DiMAGE F300? Hi hav'nt a clue about this stuff was wondering what type of memory this camera will take is ses SD so I assume anything as long as its a SD card. Have look at the specs if u dont mind. Its a Minolta DiMAGE F300 5.0-megapixel CCD delivering image resolutions as high as 2,560 x 1,920 pixels. 3x, 7.8-23.4mm lens, equivalent to a 38-114mm lens on a 35mm camera. Maximum aperture of f/2.8 at full wide-angle and f/4.7 at full telephoto. Automatic and manual focus control, adjustable focus area. Subject Tracking AF system. Intelligent Video AF focusing system. Up to 4x digital enlargement. Real-image optical viewfinder and 1.5-inch color LCD monitor. Auto and Manual exposure control. Shutter speeds from 1/1,000 to four seconds, with maximum 15-second Bulb setting. Program AE, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual exposure modes. Built-in flash with four operating modes. Adjustable White Balance with six settings, including a Custom setting. Multi-Segment, Center-Weighted, and Spot metering modes. Sensitivity equivalents of 64, 100, 200, and 400 ISO, plus an Auto setting. Auto-Exposure Bracketing, Continuous Advance, Voice Memo, Self-Timer, Movie (with Night mode), and Audio modes. Special "Scene" exposure modes and Automatic Digital Subject Program Selection. Optional remote control. Image color, sharpness, saturation, and contrast settings. Histogram display for checking exposure. JPEG and uncompressed TIFF file formats. SD memory card storage. Power from two AA NiMH or alkaline batteries, one CRV3 lithium battery, or optional AC adapter. Video cable for viewing images on a television. USB cable for quick connection to a computer, and interface software CD with new Dimage Viewer software. DPOF (Digital Print Order Format) compatibility for printing images. Hi thanks for link but not much use the camera's pritty old so there was not much info on it. thanks guys and girls, will check that link out smash, I did find a chart saying it can take 528mb cards, but yer ill buy a 2 gb and see. and yes a nice little camera for 50$.....cheers

Which MacBook Pro is right for me? Hi, I'm looking to buy a new mac laptop- I'm fairly sure it's going to be a 15" MacBook Pro. However, as the price on this class of laptop ranges from roughly 1,600-4,200 I'm not sure which to purchase. I want to get the cheapest one that suits my needs. As a student, I will use my laptop both in school and at home, so it will see a lot of movement. It will be lugged around from class to class in a backpack along with binders and textbooks and used routinely throughout the day. It will also be used often at home and elsewhere. Durability is key. Tremendous battery life is a plus, but is not TOTALLY VITAL because I will usually be able to plug in and charge during classes and at home. On my laptop I will store a few thousand songs, a few hundred photos, 5-10 full length movies (avg. 90 mins each), roughly 50-100 television episodes (avg. 45 mins each), many documents, and programs/applications. I will use only basic applications such as those included in iLife '09 and iWork '09 as well as Safari, Mail, iTunes, QuickTime, Microsoft Office, and others. I will need to add some academic/recreational programs to the laptop as well. While I will only use relatively basic applications, I will be using them fairly heavily. I will not install games on the laptop. I will often be using multiple applications at once, so the ability to handle multiple applications running simultaneously is crucial. I don't need BLAZING fast processing speeds, but something that can browse the web and operate applications at a reasonably fast speed is what I'm looking for. Finally: lifespan. I would like my laptop, obviously, to last as long as possible, at least 4-5 years, without needing to be replaced. Overall, I'm looking for the cheapest specs for a 15" MacBook Pro that can easily suit the needs of the average student, running smoothly and without difficulty. OPTIONS: (view mac store for pricing) Processor: 2.53 GHz, 2.66 GHz, 2.8 GHz, or 3.06 GHz Memory: 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB, or 8GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB Hard Drive: 250GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm, 320GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm, 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm, 320GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm, 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm, 128GB solid-state drive, or 256GB solid-state drive Please feel free to ask additional questions. I'm looking for a final answer that defines which three specs (Processor, Memory, and Hard Drive) I should customize my 15" MacBook Pro with given my outlined needs and expectations. Again, feel free to voice questions or inquiries. (Please, don't try to persuade me from buying this particular laptop- I hate windows, not a huge Linux fan, and 15" is the size of laptop I want) THANKS!

Is the Magnavox TB100MW9 DTV converter required to comply w/ NTIA Appendix 1 of the Final Rule #18 &21? Manufacturers of coupon-eligible converter boxes will need to build devices that include specific features and meet certain performance specifications set forth in Technical Appendix 1 of the Final Rule. 18. Remote Control: A remote control to operate the equipment shall be provided with batteries. Standard codes will be used and provided so the consumer can program an existing remote control to, at a minimum, change channels and turn on and off the converter box and the consumer’s existing analog television receiver. 21. Owner’s manual: An owner’s manual shall be include information regarding the remote control codes used to permit the consumer to program a universal remote control. This unit does not comply. This is the only DTV converter Walmart has in store. Therefore you can not exchange for a different model and you basically loose your $40 coupon.

Electromagnetism Questions? The scientist who first discovered a link between electricity and magnetism is a. Hans Oersted b. Albert Einstein c. Michael Faraday d. William Gilbert Which of the following is "not" a characteristic of a step-down transformer? a. There are fewer loops on the secondary coil than on the primary coil. b. It converts alternating current into direct current. c. The voltage of the secondary coil is less than that of the primary coil. d. It is necessary for a doorbell to operate. A step-up transformer is used in a. tape players b. calculators c. doorbells d. television sets The best core for an electromagnet is a. alnico b. iron c. aluminum d. magnetite Which of the following will "not" strengthen an electromagnet? a. increasing the number of loops of wire around the core b. increasing the current flow c. decreasing the voltage d. all of these In order for a motor to run off direct current, it must contain a a. glvanometer b. U-shaped magnet c. primary coil d. commutator The phenomenon in which a current is produced by a changing magnetic field is called electromagnetic a. conduction b. transformation c. induction d. generation Alternating current in the United States has a frequency of a. 30 hertz b. 60 hertz c. 120 hertz d. 240 hertz Almost all of the electricity that people use is produced by a. generators b. motors c. batteries d. transformers A step-down transformer is used in a. doorbells b. X-ray machines c. fluorescent lights d. television sets

Is this a good televison 1080p honeywell 42"? I am wondering if this is a good choice. is it a good tv all the pros and cons would be nice is it worth it? price:$668 Honeywell 42" Class 1080p Widescreen LCD HDTV, MT-HWJCT42B3AB Item DescriptionTop of Page See the difference TV picture excellence makes with the extraordinary Honeywell 42" 1080p Widescreen LCD HDTV with HDMI Cable. This high-definition 42" LCD offers a 16:9 widescreen display that gives you nothing short of a cinema-like experience. The progressive scan technology displays high-speed motion with optimum clarity, so you always see crystal clear images that practically jump off the screen. Note: You must have a source of HD programming in order to take full advantage of an HDTV. Otherwise, the picture quality of an HDTV without an HD source may not be much better than a standard-definition TV. Please contact your local cable or satellite TV provider for details on how to upgrade to HD programming. # Full HD 1080p performance - offers exceptional picture quality # 5' HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) cable included - provides optimum picture quality from your peripheral HD devices, such as Blu-ray players # Universal remote - allows you to operate your DVD, DVR/VCR and satellite/cable box with your TV remote; eliminates the clutter of multiple remotes # Screen Type: LCD - provides excellent picture quality, long life and a thin profile # Screen Size: 42" # Aspect Ratio: 16:9 widescreen display # HD Ready: Yes # Resolution (in pixels): 1920 x 1080 # Brightness: 500cd/m^2 # Contrast Ratio: 50,000:1 # Progressive Scan: Yes # TV Tuner: Digital # Speakers: 2 stereo # Audio Output Per Channel: 5 watts per channel # Child Lockout/V-Chip: Yes # Multi-Brand Remote: Yes # Power Consumption: 205 watts # View Modes: 16:9, 4:3, Zoom, Auto, Normal, Just Scan (HDMI) # Viewing Angles: 178 degrees # Languages: English, French, Spanish # Refresh Rate: 4ms # Tabletop TV Stand: Yes # Cabinet Color: Piano black # Inputs: 5 HDMI, coaxial, VGA, component, composite, S-video # Outputs: Coaxial audio/digital audio out # Measures approx. 40.35"L x 12.95"W x 28.54"H # Weighs approx. 50.71 lbs. # UL listed # Accessories Include: 5' HDMI cable, remote control, AC power cord, tabletop TV stand, stand hardware packet, connector reference guide, 2 "AAA" batteries for remote, owner's manual Do you have questions about this product? Ask a question. Specifications Top of Page General Product Type: 42" LCD TV Series: ML PC Interface: VGA (HD-15) Weight: 50.7 lbs Width: 40.4 in Depth: 13 in Height: 28.5 in Dimensions: With stand Digital Television Certification: HDTV Display Technology: TFT active matrix Diagonal Size: 42" - widescreen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Progressive Scan: Progressive scanning (line doubling) Image Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Viewing Angle: 178 degrees Brightness: 500 cd/m2 Comb Filter: 3D digital Additional Features: Black level expander, gamma correction, white peak limiter, Color Transient Improvement (CTI), Luma Sens (Auto Contrast) Display Format: 1080p (FullHD) Widescreen Modes: Conventional 4:3, Auto Wide, Zoom, Normal, Just Color Depth: 24-bit (16.7 million colors) Color Temperature Control: Yes (Normal/Cool/Warm/User) Picture Adjustment: Vivid/Soft/Standard/User Dynamic Contrast Ratio: 50000:1 TV Tuner Stereo Reception System: MTS Secondary Audio Program (SAP): Yes Analog TV Tuner: NTSC Remote Control Type: Universal remote control - infrared Audio System Sound Output Mode: Stereo Speakers Included: 2 speakers Output Power / Total: 20 Watt Additional Features: Digital noise reduction, auto volume adjustment Speaker(s): 2 x right/left channel speaker - built-in - 10 Watt Audio Controls: Balance, bass, treble Built-in Decoders: Dolby Digital Connections Connector Type: 5 x HDMI ( 19 pin HDMI Type A ) ¦ 1 x VGA input ( 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15) ) ¦ 2 x component video input ( RCA phono x 3 ) ¦ 1 x composite video input ( RCA phono ) ¦ 1 x S-Video input ( 4 pin mini-DIN ) ¦ 1 x digital audio output (coaxial) ¦ 1 x audio line-in ( mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm ) Miscellaneous Compliant Standards: FCC Class B certified, CE, FCC Part 15, cULus Cables Included: 1 x HDMI cable - 6 ft Power Power Device: Power supply - internal Power Consumption Operational: 205 Watt Dimensions & Weight (Shipping) Width (Shipping): 52.9 in Depth (Shipping): 11.7 in Height (Shipping): 32.4 in Weight (Shipping): 57.3 lbs Video Features HDTV Ready: Yes Parental Channel Lock: Yes Closed Caption Capability: Yes Stands & Mounts Stand Included: Yes Stand Design: Tabletop Digital TV Tuner Digital TV Tuner: ATSC Manufacturer Warranty Service & Support: 5 years warranty Service & Support Details: Limited warranty - 5 years More Information Shipping Weight (in pounds): 66.32 Product in Inches (L x W x H): 40.35 x 11.65 x 28.54 Assembled in Country of Origin:

How does the 2009 digital TV change affect my 5" portable emergency television? I have a little 5 inch screen analog TV that operates on either 120v house current, Eight D Cell batteries or a 12 Volt cigarette lighter outlet in my vehicles. I use this little TV for when my electricity goes out in storms to keep up with the weather warnings in my area. It just has an antenna connected directly to it, no RCA plugs or any other way to connect a converter box. Is there any other way to adapt this little TV to receive a digital signal or do I have to junk it and buy one that is compatible with the new digital TV signal?

Is my custom made Laptop good? To start, I have bought this laptop at the Black Friday sale. The website I bought it from was www.hp.com. It was only 580$ (tax included). It will arrive as soon as 2 weeks. All I want to know is these following question: Is the Graphics Card good? Is the Processor and the speed of the Processor good? Is the RAM good? Is the Hard Drive good? Should i have gotten a 320GB instead of the 250GB? Is the screen good? Is my operating system good? My battery life good? Does is play Television? I will only use this Laptop for basic needs. These are the components of my Laptop that I bought. Please, I need professionals to answer this question... Thank You. - HP Pavilion dv5t Entertainment Notebook - Onyx - Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit) - Pentium(R) Dual-Core Mobile Processor T3200 (2.0 GHz) - 15.4" diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800) - FREE Upgrade to 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) - Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD - FREE Upgrade to 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection - Webcam Only - HP Color Matching Keyboard - Wireless-G Card - No Modem - SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support - No TV Tuner w/remote control - 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery - Microsoft(R) Works 9.0 - HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope

If the media is not liberal then why are they not reporting the progress in Iraq? Evidence of improvement in Iraq. By Bill Crawford An important step in stemming the violence in Iraq is to find a formula to share the country’s oil revenues fairly between the three main groups: Shiite, Sunnis, and Kurds. Iraq is preparing to take a step in the right direction by providing opportunities for foreign oil firms to invest in the country, thereby increasing its output and revenues: The production-sharing agreements (PSAs) would allow oil giants to sign 30-year contracts for extracting Iraqi oil. Under PSAs, the state retains legal ownership of its oil but gives a share of the profits to companies that invest in infrastructure and in operating the wells, pipelines and refineries. The newspaper [the Independent] said that under the draft law, oil companies could recoup 60 to 70 per cent of revenue until initial costs had been recovered, which compares to around 40pc usually. Along the same lines, Lt. General Graeme Lamb, Deputy Commander of Multinational Forces-Iraq, sees 2007 as the year that Iraq moves forward, and says he sees plenty of progress to base his optimism on: Let me give you an example. I was out at Hit the other day, Ramadi. The battalion commander out there, young battalion commander — actually, I suppose he's not that young; he just looks it — had been in Ramadi two years before, had done a full year's tour. As far as he was concerned, he always just seemed to be going backwards. When I saw him the other day, as far as he was concerned, they were making huge progress. Ramadi. Four months ago I don't think there was any policemen in the town. Seven hundred and ninety-one now. They were shot at from a building. Two hundred policemen drawn together surrounded the building, cleared it. Now, that's just an example of some progress. I then look at some of the economic issues. I look at the megawatts of power that are coming on line. I see some of the reconstruction programs that are going out. Now, that gives me a degree of optimism. I see this prime minister. I see this government. I see the challenges they face, and I'm not trying to dismiss the difficulties or trying to give you some sort of political upbeat spin. I don't do optimism. I don't do pessimism. I just do realism as I see it. And I do spend a lot of time out here. I spend a lot of time out here. I got a feel for the Arabs. So it's just the way I see it, and it's not sort of in effect trying to — I don't know — make something out of nothing. I think the situation here — you know, as someone once said — I think it was a field marshal of ours said things are never as good or as bad as you think they are. I just see these in fact at a point in turning. Mosul and al Qaim are other areas where significant progress has been made over the past year. In Mosul, Iraqi police and army forces have brought law and order to a historically violent area: “Yes, there is violence in this city. But, there is violence in American cities that have nearly two million people in their population as well,” said [Maj. Gen. Benjamin R.] Mixon. Recognizing the similar levels of violence in a comparable city in America, Twitty paints an optimistic picture of the current state of Mosul and Ninewa Province. “Amidst the turmoil and issues that persist in Iraq, there is a semblance of peace and normalcy in the north. Ninewa’s leadership works hard to provide its citizens security, build its economy, and implement programs that will continue to keep sectarian violence from the province,” said Twitty. “One thing we cannot do is attempt to put an American standard on any Iraqi city,” said Twitty. “We have to remember that this country lived under a dictator for more than 30 years. The major and significant difference between U.S. cities and Mosul is the use of improvised explosive devices, rocket-propelled grenades, and other military - grade weapons. Anti-Iraqi forces persist in their attacks, but the Iraqi security forces, consisting of the Iraqi Army, border patrol and police, continue to quell those attacks daily,” Twitty continued. Al Qaim was frequently called the “Wild West,” but the Marines cleaned the area up in 2005, and the situation is improving daily: Two years ago, the same streets were fraught with roadside bombs and snipers, and sellers and buyers stayed away. The area was considered too dangerous even for a quick tour by a U.S. general in his armored Humvee. The Al Qaim region routinely was described as an out-of-control "wild west" where the Marines were fighting, with only limited success, to control the smuggling of insurgent fighters and weapons from Syria. Today, Marines walk the downtown beat, chatting with residents, fielding their complaints, encouraging them to contact the Iraqi police if they suspect insurgent activity. In a country studded with areas where the United States either has failed or had only limited progress toward stabilization, Husaybah and the surrounding Al Qaim region stand out as a success, officials said. Unfortunately, the American people aren’t hearing about this, as Army medic Corporal Ignacio Garza observes: Based on his experiences in Iraq, events there are not as bad as the news media make it seem, an Army medic from Adrian said. Cpl. Ignacio Garza, a medic in the 1st Armored Division home on leave after serving in Iraq for six months, said the troops don’t watch television news for war updates because they think none of the networks show an accurate depiction of what’s happening. He said they ignore large parts of the country, including the Kurd-dominated north, that are stable. In fact, if the mainstream media isn’t ignoring a story in Iraq they could just as easily be making one up. For the second time in six weeks, the Associated Press has put out a story from Iraq that isn’t backed by the facts: The Associated Press has again put out an Iraq story detailing events that did not happen. This time, it involves an airstrike that, " killed a family of four during a firefight." However, according to the press desk of Multi-National Forces-Iraq, no air strike happened during that firefight, and MNF-I also reported that which six insurgents were killed by American troops in Baghdad on January 1. This is the second time in roughly six weeks that the AP has been caught fabricating events. Iraqi Security Forces In an operation on January 7, members of the 6th Iraqi army division captured the leader of a cell responsible for kidnappings, murder, IED attacks, and car bombings. Near Baqubah, soldiers of the 5th Iraqi army killed three insurgents during an operation to capture a cell leader. The Iraqi patrol came under fire from men exiting a mosque. They returned fire, killing three. The 1st Iraqi army division assumed tactical command of the 2nd Brigade on January 9. The brigade will operate within Fallujah: “We will be loyal soldiers to defend our precious country and to implement security and stability,” said Brig. Gen. Khalid Juad Khadum, the commanding general of 2nd Brigade. “And this will hit the pages of history in godly words, and we promise Allah that we will take care of this handover and to protect it, God willing, until the last drop of our blood, and Allah is a witness of what we say.” The Iraqi police enlisted 301 recruits during a recent recruiting drive in Fallujah and Habbaniyah. The new recruits will undergo six-week basic training in Jordan. Another 400 were enlisted during a recruiting drive in Ramadi. The situation was far different last year: One year ago a murderous intimidation campaign prevented local Iraqis from enlisting in Ramadi. Recruiting numbers for police were insignificant. More than 1,000 enlisted in the police force last month. Over 800 are expected to enlist in Anbar Province this month. “The local tribes stood up to the intimidation campaign and are taking back their city from the terrorists,” said the Coalition spokesman in Ramadi Marine Maj. Riccoh Player. “Hundreds of Iraqi Police are holding areas cleared by Iraqi and American forces in recent operation in the worst neighborhoods of Ramadi,” said Player. “Building and manning a police station in Ramadi is what progress looks like in a counterinsurgency.” Based on tips from Iraqi civilians, the Iraqi national police, with Coalition forces, detained ten and uncovered several weapons caches during an operation in Baghdad: The operation was the result of tips from local citizens of possible insurgents and weapons caches in the neighborhood. The national police seized three large weapons caches containing one rifle fitted with a silencer, one machine gun, one sniper rifle, assorted small arms ammunition and bomb-making materials. In Fallujah, Iraqi police and army troops captured 47 insurgents during Operation Ar Bead. The operation was planned and executed by Iraqi troops, who have tamed the once restless city: “The district police chief – this was his idea,” said Lt. Col. Race Roberson, the RCT-5 police implementation officer. “It was (an Iraqi Security Forces) operation; they were the owners of it.” ”The police are a strong force, and they will go anywhere at anytime in the city of Fallujah,” Roberson said. The Iraqi army has begun a major operation in Baghdad. Thirty terrorists were reported killed on the first day, including five from Sudan. The 2nd Division of the Iraq army is now operating independently of Coalition forces. In Qasaiba, soldiers of the 5th Iraqi Army Division captured the leader of an insurgent cell operating in the area: The insurgent cell leader is suspected of limiting the travel of Iraqi civilians in the area through intimidation and violent criminal activities. It is also believed the cell leader coordinates and conducts kidnapping, torture and murders of Iraqi civilians and security forces in the area. On January 10, Iraqi soldiers rescued a kidnapping victim: Working on a tip, Iraqi troops from the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division (Mechanized) searched for the kidnapping victim’s vehicle. They discovered it on a farm. Upon conducting a cordon and search of the farm, the soldiers found the kidnapped Iraqi in a farmhouse unharmed, with his hands tied. Iraqi Special Security Forces captured two leaders of an insurgent cell during an operation in Al Doura. The cell is responsible for car bombings against civilians in Sadr City and IED attacks against Iraqi security forces. In Tal Afar, Iraqi police killed four insurgents after they came under attack while on patrol. A later search of the area found a weapons cache consisting of 12 RPGs and two mortar shells. Iraqi army special forces captured 19 during an operation targeting the leader of an insurgent cell responsible for attacks against Iraqi civilians and Coalition forces. During two operations in Fallujah, Iraqi soldiers captured six members of al Qaeda. The men are suspected of involvement with IED attacks against Coalition troops and weapons trafficking. Iraqi security forces joined Marines and U.S. soldiers in conducting a successful operation to clean up Ramadi: Iraqi Army, police and Coalition forces seized hundreds of weapons and explosives during the operation, including three mortar systems, 101 mortar rounds, 90 pounds of explosives, eight rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 47 AK-47s, five Dragonov sniper rifles, 26 grenades, 26 mines, 34 artillery rounds, 12 rockets and other items used to attack Ramadi’s security forces and civilians. During the operation 44 enemy combatants were killed and 172 suspected insurgents were detained. The Iraqi army captured a high-level insurgent leader during a raid in Hajjan: The suspect is allegedly an experienced IED builder and an illegal armed group member. He was believed to be training other illegal armed group members how to construct and employ IEDs. Prime Minister al-Maliki has finally been convinced to drop his protection of the Mahdi army. The move came after U.S. officials convinced al-Maliki that the militia was infiltrated by Shiite death squads. In related news, Sadr’s political block is ending its two month boycott of parliament. Two tips led Iraqi national police to a kidnapping victim and a sizeable weapons cache in Baghdad: “This raid was planned and executed entirely by the Iraqi national police,” said Maj. Blaine Wales, the team chief for the 1st Battalion, 7th Brigade, 2nd Iraqi National Police Transition Team. The weapons cache consisted of 31 mortar and artillery rounds, 12 rolls of detonation cord, one can of ball bearings, three blocks of C4 explosive, 100 blasting caps and fuses, two completed improvised explosive devices, multiple batteries of all types, four handheld radios, nine cellular phones and seven completed electronic circuit boards similar to those found in roadside bombs. In eastern Baghdad, an Iraqi patrol found an IED before it could be detonated. In Baghdad, an Iraqi army patrol successfully fought its way out of an ambush: While conducting a routine patrol in Baghdad’s Fahhama neighborhood, an element of the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army was ambushed by a group of insurgents armed with pistols and AK-47s. The patrol immediately returned fire on the men attacking them. Two insurgents were killed and four others wounded in the fire fight. Tips from citizens led Iraqi police to two large weapons caches: The first cache included fifteen 9mm TNT rounds, a dozen 90mm Composition A3 rounds, five 155mm High Explosive rounds, four artillery fuses, six 20mm rockets, and nine RPG rounds among other items. The second cache included two 105mm rounds rigged as improvised explosive devices. Iraqi Police captured the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq’s cell in Samarra during an operation on January 18. Iraqi forces captured two high-level insurgent commanders in separate raids: Special Iraqi army forces, with coalition advisors, captured a high-level terrorist leader today during operations in eastern Baghdad, military officials said. The suspect is allegedly affiliated with Abu Dura and other Baghdad death squad commanders, and is responsible for assassinating numerous Iraqi security forces members and government officials. Military officials said he has also organized kidnappings, torture and murder of Iraqi civilians. During operations in Samarra yesterday, Iraqi police forces with coalition advisors captured the suspected leader of several al Qaeda in Iraq terror cells. The suspect is responsible for directing several IED and small arms attacks against Iraqi security forces, coalition forces and Iraqi civilians. During the operation, combined forces captured an additional insurgent and confiscated IED components, assault rifles and ammunition. In Morocco, security forces have disrupted a cell responsible for recruiting terrorists to fight in Iraq: Moroccan security forces have dismantled a radical cell recruiting volunteers to fight in Iraq and arrested 26 people, the government said on Thursday. In Tal Afar, Iraq forces discovered a tunnel leading below a house where they found a weapons cache consisting of 200 pounds of explosives, more than 125 rockets, and 2,500 rounds of ammunition. Over at the Department of Defense website, a map of Iraq shows the progress made by Iraq’s army over the last year. “Green areas” indicate areas under control of Iraqi forces. The “green areas” increase significantly as the year progresses. Check it out. Security Operations Raids across Iraq targeting al Qaeda resulted in the capture of 25 suspected terrorists. Nine terrorists were killed in a series of raids in Baghdad over the weekend: Nine terrorists, including an al-Qaeda leader, were killed during raids conducted by coalition forces in Baghdad today and yesterday. Also, one terrorist was wounded, and three were detained during the raids. A known al-Qaeda weapons dealer was among those killed during today's Baghdad raid, according to officials. Another terrorist was wounded in the action, while two more were detained. The wounded terrorist was provided first aid and transported to a nearby medical facility. Coalition forces had targeted the weapons dealer, whose body was identified by his wife. In other news, coalition troops killed six terrorists and detained one suspect during a fierce morning firefight in Baghdad yesterday, officials reported. Intelligence reports indicated the targeted location was used as a possible al Qaeda in Iraq safe house for terrorists to conduct operational planning. Another 90 al Qaeda terrorists were killed by American and Iraqi forces during a ten-day operation near Baghdad. A patrol consisting of troops from the 1st Cavalry Division uncovered seven weapons caches in the village of Arab Salman Salman: …uncovered the caches, which included 51 rocket-propelled grenade rounds; 11 RPG launchers; two assault rifles with 13,000 rounds of ammunition; six 57mm rockets; eight plastic explosives; two 120mm artillery shells; two 137mm missiles; 225 pounds of explosives; and other IED-making materials. Iraqi and Coalition troops discovered a weapons cache in Yusufiyah consisting of materials used in the manufacture of IEDs: The cache, which contained a variety of improvised explosive device making items and weapons included six 120mm mortar rounds, a directional charge, five rocket propelled grenade launchers, seven RPG charges, nine RPG rockets, 150 small metal cylinders filled with plastic explosives, 1000 7.62mm rounds, 200 ft. of detonation cord, seven hand grenade fuses, five hand grenade shells, five long-range antennae, 22 transformers, four cordless phones, two cordless phone base stations, two cell phones, 12 cell phone cases with assorted parts and 12 60mm mortar round casings. Twenty-eight suspected terrorists were captured during raids across Iraq which targeted the safe houses of foreign terrorists. Over the past month, paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne have found more than 500 artillery rounds that could have been used to make IEDs or VBEIDs. Reconstruction & Economy If it were any other country, the reconstruction of Iraq would be a huge story. As of December 31, 2006, there are 658 projects underway at a cost of $2.67 billion, 3,026 projects have been completed at a cost of $7.11 billion, and 94 more projects are planned. A $43 million upgrade to the Al Basrah oil terminal is expected to be completed by April. The upgrade includes an emergency shutdown system, control valves, metering system, and fire protection. The upgraded terminal will meet all international safety and metering standards. Twenty hospitals throughout Iraq are currently undergoing $103 million in renovations. A small water project was completed in Dahuk Province. The new water storage tank and pipeline serves more than 1,000 residents of Dahuk. An $8.6 million renovation to the Samawah Railroad Maintenance Center has been completed. The Samawah site is one of two railway maintenance centers in Iraq, and employs more than 250 Iraqis. Iraq’s power grid is now being monitored by a central control system, called SCADA: “The main function of SCADA is to create and maintain a digital connection in order to check the provinces’ power loads and control them easily by connecting them to the central power distribution points,” Perry said. The SCADA system includes input and output signal hardware, controller networks, and communications software. There are 47 primary health-care centers under construction in northern Iraq. The first completed center recently opened in Salah Al Den Province: More than 112,000 people in the Salah Al Den Province are receiving healthcare from the first completed Primary Healthcare Center (PHC) in the north. Built by local construction companies with quality assurance managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, this $3.35 million dollar facility provides routine and initial emergency care to patients including X-ray, laboratories and dentistry. Medical supplies and laboratory equipment were included in the contract to make this facility complete and operational. On January 15, three new schools were opened in Mushahidah: an elementary school for girls, a secondary school for girls, and an elementary school for boys: “This is a great example for the projects in this area,” said Shiek Naif Moutlak, the chief of the city council. “We thank the coalition for all they have done and hope for other projects in the area to help the people.” The Pentagon is helping fight unemployment in Iraq by reopening factories that were once owned by Saddam Hussein: Under a new program, the U.S. Defense Department is already helping reopen factories that were owned by Saddam Hussein's government and abandoned by occupation authorities shortly after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. The Pentagon may also start providing them with contracts to support U.S. troops. One factory restarted operations in the past two weeks, and nine more are to open by the end of this month, adding some 11,000 Iraqis to employment rolls, a Pentagon official said Wednesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the information had not been released yet. The president’s speech this week put Iran on notice that the U.S. was going to work to prevent its interference in Iraq. Iraqi forces took the first step in confronting Iran when they raided Iran’s diplomatic mission in Irbil: Iraqi officials said today that multinational forces detained as many as six Iranians in an overnight raid on Tehran's diplomatic mission in the northern city of Irbil just hours after President Bush gave details about his new military plan for Iraq. The forces stormed the Iranian mission at about 3 a.m., detaining the five staffers and confiscating computers and documents, two senior local Kurdish officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. Irbil is a city in the Kurdish-controlled north, 220 miles from Baghdad. Japan is preparing to loan Iraq $3.5 billion for reconstruction. In the city of Al Qosh, Medics from the 1st Cavalry Division treated more than 80 people during a humanitarian mission to the city: During the mission, one female physician’s assistant and one female pediatrician medically examined over 80 people; 65 percent children, and 35 percent women. Three dozen soccer balls were distributed to the children of the town, courtesy of a donation from a radio station in the United States, as well as clothing, toys, shoes, and school supplies.

What do you know about the Media and Abu Ghraib?? MASS MEDIA : ABU GHRAIB INTRODUCTION Although in recent months, Abu Ghraib has not been making front page news, it is still an issue at large in the United States and the world. Millions around the globe witnessed shocking images of tortured Iraqis at Abu Ghraib at the hands of their American captors; the reaction was anger and outrage. The constant bombardment of shocking photos and articles made sure that everyone knew about the problem at hand. And that something needed to happen to resolve this issue. In this paper I will be exploring the mass media coverage of the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal. I will examine a few different media outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Times. I will also attempt to compare the amount of coverage given to Abu Ghraib by the two newspapers as well as the underlying motives of the liberal New York Times and the conservative Washington Times. Also, I will be examining the Abu Ghraib coverage broadcasted on national television in the United States. CNN, a known liberal news station and The Fox News Channel a known conservative news station will be my mediums. I will be examining them to see if I can find distortions in the coverage, the amount of coverage, bias in the coverage, and more importantly the repercussions of the said statements from the newspaper and television. I chose these particular news mediums because they are all well known, trusted institutions of news. Also it is important to understand that each carry their own political views, whether they are Republican or Democratic. That being said, I believe we will find many differences in the coverage of the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal between the news agencies METHODS To acquire data for my analysis of Abu Ghraib media coverage I turned to the primary sources themselves. By using the internet to review old articles and the fact that I constantly watch cable news, I was able to review a fair amount of data. Some of which is stuff I remember from watching CNN and FNC during the height of the Abu Ghraib pandemic. By contacting staff writers at the Washington Times and using microfiche to review articles posted by the New York Times, I was able to see many differences in the media coverage. However, the internet proved to be my most valuable player in helping me compile my research. Depending on the key words used to research Abu Ghraib in the media I would get many different results. By typing in “Abu Ghraib” I would get websites that were mostly focused on the cold hard facts of the case without the left or right wing bias. However, when I typed in words like distortions, propaganda, and sensationalism attached with Abu Ghraib I found that the websites information changed dramatically. I noticed a great deal of what I would call finger pointing, people playing the blame game, and the attempted defamation of character was always popular. The three search engines used where; Yahoo, Google, and Ask.com. For the most part the three search engines returned most of the same information but it’s always nice to mix it up a little. It was difficult to sift through what I considered to be accurate coverage and what I will call uneducated coverage of the issue. Everyone’s got an opinion but I think it’s best to just stick to the facts of the cases and use the comments and statements of accredited news agencies In order to discuss differences in media coverage of Abu Ghraib I needed to first understand what actually happened at Abu Ghraib. To complete this task I used a number of internet sites describing the events that took place. Wikipedia on the web proved to be the most complete, unbiased information on the actual facts and timelines of the case. BACKGROUND In the early months of 2003, various abuses and torture tactics were being used on inmates at the Abu Ghraib Prison. Private contractors, CIA officers, and U.S. armed forces were among the many individuals who would ultimately be charged with cruel and unusual treatment of prisoners. On April 28th, 2004, the emergence of various reports of abuse and graphic pictures of Americans abusing POW’s appeared in the international media. CBS aired an episode of 60 minutes 2 that went into graphic detail of the events at Abu Ghraib. The New York Times published an article on the abuse just 2 days later. I will go into greater details of this story later in this report. The damage of this scandal to the U.S.’s credibility was tremendous. The news of the abuse reverberated throughout the entire Arab world, leading millions to believe that these instances represented a “broader American attitude of disrespect and violence towards Arabs.”(CNN) The U.S. countered by saying that the abuses were committed by a handful of low-ranking personnel, and that their individual actions did not represent the U.S. armed forces as a whole. In response to the scandal the removal of 17 officers from duty, the arrest 7 soldiers for dereliction of duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault, and battery, for which they were sent to prison, as well as 2 officers who spent 10 year prison terms. Ironically, the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal, led by the U.S. coalition, was not the first account of torture that the walls of the prison had seen. In fact, thousands of political prisoners held by Saddam Hussein were believed to have been tortured and murdered. “Up to 4 thousand prisoners are thought to have been executed there in 1984 alone. Prisoners are routinely executed, guards fed prisoners into plastic shredders, and there are even allegations that some of these detainees were subjected to experiments as part of Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons program.”(Wikipedia 2004) After Baghdad was invaded and the government was overthrown, the U.S. took over the prison where it would eventually come to hold over 5 thousand prisoners. Washington Times The Washington Times is a D.C. newspaper that reaches about 103,017 readers on a daily basis. It was created by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon to be the conservative counterpoint to the liberal Washington post. Both papers claimed to print neutral news coverage but reserve the right to print conservative and liberal opinions in the respective papers. The Washington times is known and is seen as a conservative newspaper. By conservative, I mean that their political views are in support of traditional values and the “existing social order.” The support of republicans in times of political discussions and events is also common place. This is precisely why we have seen a difference in the amount of coverage in Abu Ghraib by the New York Times versus the Washington Times. According to Jennifer Harper, of the Washington Times,” positive images and accounts of the U.S. armed forces is rare.”(Harper 2005) She goes on to give an example, “30 U.S. airmen and soldiers delivered school supplies and toys - gifts from American children - to an Iraqi village.” “Yesterday air force medical teams airlifted a critically ill infant and mother to an Ohio hospital for treatment.”(Harper 2005) The question is why are these stories being overshadowed by all the bad images of the war? The Washington Times claims it does an excellent job at staying neutral. The Washington times, as well as other agencies such as the Media Research Center, are very suspicious of the fact that there are broadcasters in news companies using their influence to build a case against the war in Iraq, as well as the Bush administration. Abu Ghraib proved to be the catalyst for many to turn away from the war on terror and question the legitimacy of the war in Iraq. For this reason, the Washington Times opted out of sensationalistic media coverage of the Abu Ghraib incident. The Washington Times was not one to publish a ridiculous amount of shock articles along with anger incising photographs to amplify the severity of the events. The liberal media has had no such qualms doing so; as the Washington Times has gone on to say in many of their articles. Why would the Washington Times shy away from an obscene amount of coverage of Abu Ghraib? Why would they retaliate and say that the liberal media is using the scandal to undermine Bush’s war efforts. The answer is simple. We have a Conservative in office. The Washington Times and any conservative media for that matter do not want to see their poster boy’s image tarnished. It is in the Washington Times best interest to keep a republican in office and writing stories that discredit Bush’s control on the situation at hand would have a negative effect… As we have seen from the “bombardment of Abu Ghraib images from CBS, CNN, Washington Post, and especially the New York Times.”(O’Reilly, 2004) Fox News Channel Another entity with similar conservative ideology is the Fox News Channel, with their “hardballer” Bill O’Reilly. Fox News Channel was founded by Rupert Murdoch in an attempt to combat the liberal media. They operate under the slogans “Fair and Balanced”, “We report you decide”, and as Bill O’Reilly says, “your now entering a no spin zone.” Although Fox News Channel was criticized in the 2000 election for being, “the last to retract the call of Florida for Gore and first to call Florida for Bush, their record of being unbiased is pretty good.”(Wikipedia 2003) Perhaps the most well known and noteworthy television personality on the Fox News Channel is Bill O’Reilly. He is known for his conservative political views, unorthodox methods of interviewing guests on his show, and sensational commentary. As someone who watches the O’Reilly Factor, it was not hard to compile the feelings and articles from O’Reilly on the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal. On a side note, O’Reilly does not believe he is either a conservative or a liberal. As he has stated time and time again. In response to the Abu Ghraib scandal, O’Reilly was forthcoming to say that the photos did show abuse but was reluctant to admit that the photos showed what the New York Times Dubbed as torture. O’Reilly’s focus was more turned toward what he perceived as sensational coverage of Abu Ghraib by the leftist media and the consequences of their journalism. O’Reilly goes on to say that “the New York Times, of course is using the prisoner story to hammer the Bush administration and continue to do so, but here’s the unintended consequence of that. By creating hysteria over Abu Ghraib, the much more important war on terror story has vanished from the newspapers. Last weeks dog and pony show by Senators Kennedy and Bidden once again placed blame on the Bush Administration. And the senators did everything they could to mandate no coercive interrogations of suspected terrorists. Meantime foreign governments are encouraging suicide killers and we are the targets. Yet it’s all Abu Ghraib, all the time in much of the media, politics once again trumping your safety.”(O’Reilly 2004) He also states that the New York Times ran with 43 front page stories on Abu Ghraib in 47 days. An incredible amount of coverage. New York Times The New York Times is published in New York City but is an international newspaper. “It is owned by the New York Times Co. which also publishes some 40 other newspapers including the international Herald Tribune and the Boston Globe.” We will return to the Globe later in the essay. The New York Times is viewed by many to be a liberal newspaper. By liberal I mean that they are concerned with individual rights, civil liberties and the redistribution of wealth from rich to poor. Tax breaks for the poor are generally favored over tax breaks for the rich. The New York Times is usually thought of as supporting the Democratic Party. It has been suggested that “during presidential campaigns the paper systematically gives more coverage to democratic topics, but only when the incumbent president is a republican.”(FNC 2005) Based on these facts some might assume that the New York Times would have much to gain from extensive coverage of Abu Ghraib. Much like their opponent conservative paper, the New York Times has a stake in the reactions of their readers. For the liberal side of the news Abu Ghraib was the Holly Grail of leverage points. There is no doubt that the New York Times covered the Abu Ghraib prison scandal extensively. In fact from April 29, 2004 to may 31, 2004 the Abu Ghraib scandal was on the front page of the New York Times in full color. A few of the 32 headlines read,” Iraqi recounts hours of abuse by U.S. troops. The solider; from picture of pride to symbol of abuse, and abuse; afghan deaths linked to a unit in Iraq.” (NYT 2004) All articles painted vivid images of the tortured and mutilated Iraqis in the minds of Americans and the world. Many of the articles also attempted to illustrate the incompetence followed by the underhand ness of the bush administration and the U.S. armed forces as a whole. One article in particular, Abu Ghraib, Stonewashed, published by the New York Times read, “while piously declaring its determination to unearth the truth about Abu Ghraib, the Bush Administration has spent nearly 2 months obstructing investigations by the army and members of congress. It has dragged out the Armies inquiry, withheld crucial government documents from a senate committee and stonewalled senators over dozens of Red Cross reports that document the horrible treatment of Iraqis at American military prisons.”(NYT 6/30/04). This seems to be one of the running themes in the liberal media. As mentioned before the New York Times publishes the Boston Globe. Like the New York Times the Globe is also thought of as having liberal bias toward political issues. Apparently this bias carried over into the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal. “On May 11, 2004 after the Abu Ghraib photos were released, Boston City Council Chuck Turner called a news conference with activist Sadiki Kambo. At the conference Turner and Kambo claimed to have pictures of American soldiers raping Iraqi women which Kambo said he got from the Nation of Islam. The Americans have a right and responsibility to see the pictures, Turner said standing beside a poster showing some of these graphic photos.’(Zinsmeister, 8/4/04) After three days it was found that the photos were blatant fakes and the Globe was forced to publicly apologize for reporting the case of abuse when the photos were nothing more the commercially produced pornography.”(Wikipedia, 04)Let’s hope the Iraqis got that omission. CNN Created by Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld, CNN has been dubbed “the most watched 24 hour news network in the world.”(CNN) It is available to 1.5 billion people in over 212 countries. Also being dubbed as the Clinton news network, CNN has come under scrutiny by conservatives for the practice of liberal bias in their reporting. CNN has been known to be a mouth piece for the New York Times and the Washington Post. All three cover stories with the same slant and Abu Ghraib is really no different. CNN’s coverage of Abu Ghraib was also extensive and made a habit of plastering shocking photos on T.V. of tortured and tormented Iraqis at the hands of Americans. I also watch CNN. It’s not to say that the coverage was inaccurate or untrue but the constant harping on the issue six months after the fact led many to believe that CNN had a greater hidden agenda in the reporting of the abuse case. Perhaps to discredit the Bush administration and make themselves look right righteous crusaders trying to uncover the truth, increasing the credibility of the left wing. Discussion In order to best understand the juxtaposition of the conservative and liberal media outlets we must first understand the broader situation going on. I will attempt to give you a condensed background of the political forces at work when dealing with Abu Ghraib and the media in general. Currently we have a Republican president in office and have had one in office since 2000. This has not set well with the Democrats very well. As we have seen in the 2000 election with the Florida recall and again in 2004 when the Democrats tried to get the votes of soldiers in Iraq disqualified from the count. A noteworthy side note, most US soldiers are supporters of Bush and his administration. Perhaps the most talked about aspect in the media has been the American led war in Iraq. Since the beginning of the war, liberals have tried to slam Bush and the American people, as I see it, for going to war with the country that supposedly has nothing to do with terrorism. This is false. On the 16th of March, 1988 Saddam and his followers used chemical weapons on the Kurdish people in the town of Halabjah. “Around 5000 people were murdered, mostly civilians.”(CBS 2004) The fact that the United States was unable to find weapons of mass destruction has been a staging point for much of the liberal criticism. Perhaps someone should tell them that Iraq does have weapons of mass destruction and the United States has the receipt to prove it. A mistake made by the Reagan administration. However, since the weapons of mass destruction debacle has gone away the Liberal media has been starving for a new media headline to discredit the Bush administration. Abu Ghraib would come to be the headline. There is no doubt in my mind that what happen at Abu Ghraib was a horrible thing and those responsible should have been punished, but was the constant streaming of torture photos really necessary. The unfortunate aspect for all the coverage of Abu Ghraib is that the problem had been uncovered and fixed by the military six months before the media ever caught wind of it. The way the media portrayed the issue was that the supposed tortures were going on, on a daily basis when in fact the abuse had stopped. It wasn’t as if the media had uncovered the evil Americans torturing inmates, it was the military that discovered it and dealt with in accordingly. So I ask, if the Bush administration is so incompetent and don’t have a handle on the war and all its aspects, (AG), then why were they the ones to uncover the problem and fix it. Another problem I have with the coverage of Abu Ghraib was that of the photographs alone. When the Liberal media showed these pictures they never gave timelines of when the pictures were taken. They just showed pictures and led people to believe that these photos were taken over the course of weeks and even months when they were actually taken on the same day. Probably within hours of each other. But that’s not what the Liberal media would have you know. They attempted to make it look like the torture was an ongoing and everyday practice. Tim Graham of the Media Research Center noted that “this abuse story is just not going away” it is still the topic on most network news. And there strong focus of the court martial, on the bad apples-it’s as if those troops represent the military at large as far as the media is concerned. The center has been following the bias problem among broadcasters who use the abuse story to build a case against the war in Iraq and the Bush administration. As a sample the group tracked abuse stories from April 29th to May 11th on NBC and found that the network aired 58 stories on abuse in that period. In the past year NBC only aired 5 stories on mass graves found in Iraq from the Saddam Hussein era.”(Graham 2004) From this information it is easy to see where NBC, a known Liberal station, is focused. Another aspect of the Abu Ghraib case that needs to be addressed is the flagrant use of the word torture. I believe that the word torture really needed to be evaluated and defined before the media as a whole began tossing it around. The context the word carries with it is very different from country to country, culture to culture. To a great deal of Americans the photos were disturbing but were not viewed as torture. To me most of the” photos showed nothing more than you would expect to see at a fraternity hazing.”(Tim 5/3/2004) The others clearly showed textbook procedures in dealing with a person you were interrogating. Although I do admit some of the marine’s actions went too far and deserved to be punished. The media loved to show the image of an Army ranger restraining a snarling dog from ripping into an Iraqi they were interrogating. Using dogs and other “high stress” tactics to get information out of detainees is completely legal. Though I think the public could have gone without seeing that image. If you were to ask Iraqis who lived under the murderous Saddam Hussein, the Vietnamese and Bosnians if they thought the pictures showed torture, they would probably disagree. Overall, I would have to say that both the conservative and liberal media’s did a good job of covering the topic. However, Fox and the Washington Times may have been a little to relaxed about the whole issue but did cover all of the main focal points of the scandal. CNN and the New York Times on the other hand may have gone a little overboard on the Abu Ghraib coverage but were well within their rights to do so. I think all agencies had accurate coverage of the issue and presented their slants on the issue very well. It is my contention that a cross between the two media circles would be able to produce better and possibly fairer coverage in the future.

Help please. Physical Science!? How does an atom become positively charged? A. The atom gains one or more protons. B. The atom loses one or more protons. C. The atom gains one or more electrons. D. The atom loses one or more electrons. A negative charge will attract A. another negative charge. B. a positive charge. C. a positive or negative charge. D. a neutral charge. The repulsion or attraction between electrically charged objects is a(n) A. electric charge. B. electric force. C. friction. D. discharge. What determines the strength of an electric force? A. The size of the object in the electric field. B. How many electrons are contained within the atom. C. The amount of charge that produces the field and the distance from the charge. D. How close the object is to the charge. When a pathway through which charges can move forms suddenly, __________ occurs. A. friction B. contact C. static discharge D. induction How can the electric force between two objects be reduced? A. Increase the distance B. Decrease the distance C. Increase the charge D. Reduce friction In which type of electric current does charge flow in only one direction? A. Alternating current B. Rotating current C. Direct current D. Straight current Electric current is the continuous flow of A. electric charge. B. electric resistance. C. protons and neutrons. D. electric voltage. Electric current flows easily through materials known as A. electrical insulators. B. electrical conductors. C. electrical resistors. D. electrical current boosters. In which type of current does electric charge regularly reverse its direction? A. Alternating current B. Switching current C. Reversing current D. Direct current Electric current does NOT flow easily through insulators. Which of the following is an example of a good electrical insulator? A. Battery acid B. Copper wire C. A silver spoon D. Air ____________is the opposition to the flow of electric charges A. resistance B. insulation C. induction D. voltage What is necessary for a charge to flow? A. The wire must have an energy source at one end. B. The wire must be connected in a loop that includes an energy source. C. Potential difference of 0. D. The wire must be connected in a loop. According to Ohm’s law, what happens if voltage is increased? A. The resistance is increased B. The resistance is decreased C. The current is increased D. The current is decreased According to Ohm’s law, if voltage is maintained and resistance is increased, what happens to the current? A. The current is not affected B. The current doubles C. The current is increased D. The current is decreased According to Ohm’s law, a circuit’s voltage is equal to A. current multiplied by charge. B. resistance multiplied by current. C. resistance multiplied by charge. D. induction multiplied by current. A battery is a voltage source that converts __________ energy to __________ energy. A. chemical; electrical B. electrical; chemical C. chemical; potential D. electrical; potential What affects a material’s resistance, therefore changing the current? A. Thickness, length, and composition B. Temperature and insulation C. Thickness, length, and temperature D. Composition, temperature, and current What type of circuit has two or more paths through which charges can flow? A. Parallel B. Series C. Multiple series D. Multiple parallel What happens if one element in a series circuit stops functioning? A. All of the elements have limited ability to operate. B. All of the elements in line before the non-functional one can operate. C. All of the elements can operate. D. None of the elements can operate. How does a fuse work? A. Transfers extra charge to the earth B. Prevents too much current from passing C. A wire in the center melts if too much current passes through it D. A switch opens when current is too high What is produced by continuously changing the voltage or current in a circuit? A. Direct current B. Analog signal C. Alternating current D. Digital signal Which device uses a crystalline solid to control current? A. Vacuum tube B. Super conductor C. Semiconductor D. Solid-state component Vacuum tubes such as cathode-ray tubes (CRT) used in some computer monitors and televisions A. can change alternating current into direct current. B. can decrease the strength of an electronic signal. C. never need to be replaced. D. produce a digital signal of 1’s and 0’s. DVD technology uses an electronic signal called a(n) A. analog signal. B. high-definition signal. C. vacuum signal. D. digital signal.