electron. it turns out this and this, these charges are opposite and which belies a fundamental rule of electricity. opposite charges... attract. --attract. and like charges... repel. repel. repel. that's right. and so the negative charge is being attracted to the positive charge and whirls around, around, around in a very loose sense, in almost an incorrect sense. but we can think of it like a sun here and a planet going around and around and around. the force that holds the planet to the sun is the force that we don't understand it very well. we have a name for it begins with g. what is it? gravity. gravity. and the force that holds the electron to the proton is the force we call... electricity. begins with the e. -- ends with a l. electrical. electrical. it's the electrical force. so there's an electrical force between these two. now, we normally say that that atom has no net charge. do you hear me when i say no net charge? there is much positive as negative. in fact, if i had another charge

any electrons on your seat? yes, any electrons on your seat? and when these electrons squished closer and closer, what do they do? begin with "r" end with "l". they repel and this is an electrical repulsion, my friend, between you and the chairs upon which you sit. let's put it this way. let's suppose this table-- pretend this table is a magnet. you guys know about magnets repelling. turn around, they attract, yeah. but you know magnets repel. you've all played with magnets. wow, how come that happened? there's no reason for that. come on, we'll talk about it later, yeah? but pretend that this table is a magnet and pretend that my shoe here is a magnet. and i have a force of repulsion, magnetic repulsion between my shoes and the table. can you picture in your mind's eye me walking across the table and not making contact such that someone could come up and take a piece of paper and slip it right under my shoe? can you imagine that? can you? how many people say no, i can't imagine such a thing? you have to show me. show your hands. hey, but you k

begin with e. - electricity. - electrons. the electrons in a piece of copper wire. you can make those things slosh back and forth too. and you plug it in the plug in your house, and what do you do? what the power company does, it'll just move them. and by the way, did you catch in the chapter? how many electrons come from the power plant to your house annually, about-- a lot or a little? a lot. answer don't begin with a l. what's the answer, gang? how many electrons come from the power company into your home in about one year, one year's time? give me an answer. - zero. - yeah, zero. none. the power company doesn't send any electrons at all to you. that power company says, "you give me something "chock-full of loose electrons, honey, and we'll make them move." see? that pipe that was filled with water, you gotta supply the water. you look inside there, honey, it's dry. there's just two pistons, okay? and they're gonna push the water you supply. and when every time you take a piece of wire and you plug it in to light up a lamp, honey, that wire is chock-full of loose

>>> electronics in the air. today the faa changed the safety rules. >> what does it mean for your next flight? >>> hello again. i'm jessica kartalija. >> i'm don scott. >> here's what people are talk talking about today. if you stay connected while you fly the skies are about to become friendlier. today the faa is loosening its rules on the use of portable electronic devices on planes. danielle nottingham reports for wjz from reagan national airport. >> the faa said announcements like this are going to be a thing of the past. >> with electronics we asked that you power them off and stow them. >> the agency is lifting its ban on the use of electronic devices during take offs and landings. >> airlines can safely expand passenger use of portable electronic devices during all phases of flight. >> individual airlines will have to do some additional interference testing then it will be up to them to decide when our if electronic devices still need to be turned off. >> in some instances of low visibility, about 1% of a

so it's so so to be clear that there are two possible electronic paths there is the path that you're describing which is to basically replicate the current monetary system but electronically and create a parallel currency by the government they can tax that money and they can therefore devalue that money and they can become more competitive in the global economy and they have a way to leverage and to negotiate with the i.m.f. that's one path the other path would be just take bitcoin off the shelf start using bitcoin what you're describing as a short comings there is that you don't have the ability to increase the supply of bitcoin on a on the spur of the moment because the supplies very carefully regulated through the bitcoin protocol and some people refer to that as a deflationary problem others would see that as more of a need to keep the economy being productive to be competitive but either way either way is a good solution might my case for bitcoin is that it would be available today and that the greeks can stop their paying and mediately if they want to the choice for pain going

operations including collection of enemy electronic transmissions.to discuss the initiative is colonel gym eckball and colonel carpal men chickalees. welcome back. >> great. >> let me start with you, cyber obviously is a very important field right now. there's a government shutdown going on, a lot of the folks who are in the cyber community are civilians and contractors. what's the impact of the shutdown on your operation? >> well, the army has already furloughed over 150,000 da civilians and they are a crucial part of our team including our cyber team so i don't have the exact numbers on what we have had to give up out of the army cyber command and the network command that defend army networks and the like but they are a big part of our team so we are going to have to cover any of the gaps created by that. >> but there is a little bit of uncertainty in your mind about security at this point or are you pretty confident that you've got a good beat on the problem? >> i'm confident we can step up and fill any of the gaps that we have. >> colonel, let me

one electronic billboard may be going up in palo alto. >> reporter: good evening. the city of palo alto is considering putting up an electronic billboard like the one you see here in east palo alto. all that advertising has the potential to generate millions of dollars for palo alto, but tonight some residents are asking, at what cost? did this catch your eye? that's the point. companies pay thousands of dollars to advertise on this electronic billboard in east palo alto. now palo alto is considering putting up a similar sign here at the end of colorado avenue. an electronic billboard can generate much needed money for repairing its ageing buildings, including the police department which is too small. >> we have already identified $40 million we would like to catch up on on our maintenance. we have a variety of multimillions of dollars of work we would like to get done for our capital improvements. >> reporter: but some neighbors aren't putting out the welcome sign for the sign. >> i think it is annoying. people in the apartment complex are going to see it all days

those electrons are bopping around and those electrons-- hit their neighbors-- and that energy cascades all down the middle. so it turns out that things with lose electrons are good heat conductors. later on, we're gonna learn things with good-- with lose electrons are good electrical conductors. and how many say, "oh, that's probably a coincidence"? it's not a coincidence. it's a good electrical conductor for the same reason. those lose electctrons can flowight through a piece of metal, gang and when that--now, we're talking about electricity. we'll be talking about that soon, yeah? but for now, those metal-- those little electrons will bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, which are se in metals and cay that eney ght along. so somthings conduct betr than other things. piece of wood, very, very good insulator. this wood is a good insulator at any tempetu. this wood is good insulator even if it's very, very hot. yep. did you ever reach in a hot oven and grabbed on to a frying fan that's about maybe 400 degrees fahrenheit? you're gonna cook someood or something, you got a frying pan in there that's a

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the pilots already have an electronic flight deck, electronic flight bay.sued laptops. they're already using them. some of the testing airline has to do if determine the electronics pose a danger closer to the cockpit or not. so they will be checking into that too. pretty hard to argue there is a problem when the pilots are up there working on laptops. tracy: truth of the matter, if you can get wi-fi you can face time and make calls and do all that kind of stuff anyway. don't really need the cell phone to come on board. do you think they are going to pursue this with fcc? >> no. i don't think i will pursue with the fcc you're exactly right. airlines have incentive to make sure their planes are certified for peds, personal electronic devices and airlines with newer, modern equipment will be able to do it literally, not overnight but right away. they have to come up with placards and warnings and what they tell passengers and those kind of things. once you can do that, and you will have to airline wi-fi network. you pretty much have equivalent of all communic

[eerie electronic tones] [electric guitar whines] as the century developed, the electric guitar cameo very general use, taking the sound of the guitar and picking up the sound on little pick-ups which are like tiny microphones behind the strings and putting those sounds into an amplifier and back out of a speaker. and then, of course, after that, you begin to come to electronic music synthesizers, and on into the future, who knows what will be next. (stubbs) timbre is connected with musical instruments mostly by structure of the instrument and the materials that the instrument is made from. it's significant that musical instruments use precious natural materials from all over the world, and many times these were living materials like the sinews or guts from different animals. wood is my main medium. i've been working wood most of my life. and an instrument-maker tries to figure out which of the design aspects of an instrument are mutable and which have to be preserved. and an instrument-maker will change something about an instrument every time they build that instrument, but they wi

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begin with e. - electrons. - electrons. and guess what those electrons will do when that electromagnetic energy hits it like this. hit, boom, they'll start moving the same way. they'll be set into vibration, okay? now, what's a vibrating electron do? oscillating. did we talk about that before? what's a vibrating electron do? what does it emit? oscillates. an electromagnetic wave. so that light will be captured by the atom. and them, boom, the atom will vibrate. and, foom, send out its own light wave. that catches the next atom. when that light wave hits that atom, what's that atom do? how many say, "oh, it probably don't vibrate"? come on, it vibrates, too, all right? so, boom, it's absorbed. now, what's the vibrating atom do? boom, spit, burp, bam, bam, bam--it cascades, when it gets to the end. here's your piece of glass like this, yeah. here's your first atom just sitting like that. here comes a wave--choo, choo-- okay, hoop, i spit. next atom, boom, okay, boom. hit, boom. here's the atom right on the edge over here. whi

synthesizers, as we make them, are electronic instruments. described with a series of cosines and sines. this was a very, very powerful mathematical leap at the time, and it really has had profound effects on everything we do in terms of electronics, because basically it means that we can break down any phenomenon that we either observe or want to create in nature into a set of sines and cosines. acoustic instruments typically are limited in their sound capability by the physics of an instrument. for instance, an acoustic guitar can only vibrate in certain ways, and when you hit a string, that string can only oscillate in certain modes and excite certain frequency resonances of the cavity of the guitar, same as a violin or a bass or a flute. an electronic instrument usually has a lot wider variety of expression and tones that it can get. this is close to a sine wave here. like a single oscillator making a periodic waveform that i can control the amplitude to, which is how loud it is -- louder and softer -- and the frequency of, if i play an o

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you may have heard of electronic cigarettes. they are designed to look like cigarettes and use paper to blow over nicotine, and sometimes use flavors to entice the users. >> they say they can help a person kick the habit, but there are no long-term studies to back up those claims. we look beyond the smoke and mirrors with this report. >> it is the latest trend to take the tobacco world by storm, the electronic cigarette. when it came on the scene in 2007, it was virtually unheard of. in just six years, it has turned into a billion-dollar industry. even though it is still -- still called a cigarette and can look like one, any users say it is the furthest thing from smoking. >> no tobacco at all. if that is jonathan elias, owner of one of the only full-service shops in virginia. he says it is the nontobacco aspect that is appealing to customers. the cigarettes use a battery and nicotine that is served in thy stored in cartridges. as substance is converted into vapor. it allows users to adjust the nicotine level, which helps adults

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this is one example of how electronic eavesdropping overseas can help.lso i would say that the french have a similar capability, and france and the united states are intelligence partners. to the extent that the united states comes across information that is of security interest to the united states, but also security interest to france. it is in their interest to exchange information. in connection with the boston marathon bombings of this year, it was the russian government who came to the united states government who said there are two citizens in your midst who have security concerns for us, they have security concerns for you. you might check these guys out. this information that one country may acquire could be of benefits to the other. >> the french are coming out and saying it's unacceptable that the united states spies on 70 million of its french citizens. what do you expect the fallout to be? >> reporter: well certainly it is politically awkward when some of these intelligence activities do come to light. in terms of the u.s. program and the co

prescriptions and at that time four out of five did not use electronic health records and 9 out of 10 hospitals did not use health records to order prescriptions and take care of patients. >> that is in 2009. >> 2009. >> and today? >> it doubled and tripled and quadruple and quintupled among hospitals and now we see two- thirds of doctors offices and three quarters of hospitals, they are on this path towards meaningful use of electronic health records. that is only the first stage. the first stage. and you will have undoubtedly seen this in your own doctor's experiences, where they are going through a transition and now they're trying to think about how to use these computers. >> and cursing at them. >> yes, cursing at them. but that is just the first step. that is just digitizing it. but the next step in the process is where it gets really exciting which is the sharing. and that is stage two. >> of inter operability. which is the standards now, they have been promulgated, in the 2014 certification requirements, for these electronic health records. and if we can continue on the same a

. >>> plus loosened restrictions on when passengers can turn on electronic devices on planes. >> good afternoon, i am tori campbell, an aide arrested for inappropriately touching a student, janine de la vega talked to police about a second school he previously worked at and she joins us now live. good afternoon, janine. >> reporter: good afternoon, well detectives were here at bar russford elementary school in san mateo earlier talking to the staff and parents here. they know the suspect worked here for about a year and now they want to know if he inappropriately touched any of the students here. last friday san mateo police arrested 20-year-old eric michael rinse at his home for allegedly kissing an inproperty operation touching a girl that attends the after school program at carol elementary school, the school district says an employee witnessed him alone with the girl and that is against the policy and when the incident was investigated further police found probable cause for an arrest, parents have been informed about that inspect. >> i am really worried and really i am scared you

>> it's minerals we use in electronic products. things that make our factories function more efficiently. things that make our cell phones work silently. things that keep these electronic products together. >> to help draw that connection, how does my purchase of an electronic product end up making its way to someone in these mines? >> in the mine, they extract tin, that product then is exported in -- from congo to its neighboring countries and from there it makes its way to the east african coastline shipped to asia to go to production companies, which will take the raw material and turn it into a different form. >> how is it -- by reading this piece, i learned that the congo is one of the most mineral rich countries on the planet. yet at the same time, it's one of the poorest places on the planet. they have these resources, what's been keeping them from exercising that sort of economic independence. >> the problem is, there's no control. 23i6r9 of all, within an environment like that, the government there is not really in control

the electronic system made life convenience.e any other technology, it has its risks. >> apparently here, one of the officials really thought twice about the documents and had their concerns but because he was pressured saying this is the law, i have to let them go. >> sure. there are so many moving parts in the prison system. the communication between the court system is not always so smooth. it's no surprise that each person who reviews the document had concerns could have run it up the flag pole. a signature is a signature. a signature is a signature until it didn't. we are in an era where people are signing things and cutting and pasting images. i found a signature, an electronic signature, a slash, s and slash and sign your name. a lot of documents don't use the hand signature anymore. it's slash s slash and my name typed out. court order. >> do we know how many people have done or could be trying to do this same thing? >> who knows. it requires some level of sophistication. they need a laptop and they don't have them in pr

. >>> the faa is now relaxing in-flight rules on electronic devices. fliers are one step closer to being able to do something closer to touchdown and takeoff. >>> and please, join our conversation on twitter any time. you can find me @tamronhall. my team is @newsnation. ♪ ♪ nothing says, "you're my #1 copilot," like a milk-bone biscuit. ♪ say it with milk-bone. >>> today i'm proud to announce that i'm expanding and enhancing select usa to create the first ever fully coordinated u.s. government effort to recruit businesses to invest and create new jobs in the united states. >> president obama of course speaking in the past hour at a conference in washington designed to attract foreign investment. the president did not talk about the problems with the health care rollout today, but these comments come at a time our new nbc news "wall street journal poll" shows americans are increasingly unconfident in the president. our poll shows the president's approval rating is now at an all-time low of 42%. that is down from 52% in our poll in january. it's approach

so the grandfather in this case that has hearing loss and so we have no electronics i'd like to point out here but rather a way by way of speaking to just to get the signal up to the ear. if we go to the next slide you see a whole collection of beethovens, ear trumpets or ear horns. so before we got into the age of electronics we have choices in terms of that collecting of sound like i showed you in the beginning we've been doing but collecting it into the device and bringing it into the ear. fortunately beginning about 1901 we started having access to electronic hearing aids and in reality those first electronic hearing aids were nearly as big as this table and eventually they got more -- smaller sized and so on. we went to body style nadz the '40s and '50s, ear level aids in the '60s at least and these days hearing aids are pretty excellent i would like to point out to be positive before we look at how a hearing aid works. all hearing aids, even since the beginning of electronic hearing aids at the turn of that century all hearing aids had to have a place to pick up the sound, that

. >>> new changes to the electronics rules on airlines.'ll walk you through it coming up. >>> then how about this to get you into the halloween spirit? our own bob riddell will take us inside what's considered one of the most haunted places in the entire state. christine, ab frayed, very afraid. >> i am. i am, marla. good morning to you. now, temperatures are climbing nicely. we've got a gorgeous day ahead, but we're going to tell you what to expect when the sun goes down and those trick-or-treaters get ready to pound the pavement tonight. i can tell you right now, it's definitely going to be a treat this year. your full forecast, nbc bay area news at 11:00 comes right back. >>> 10 people are relieved to be back in the bay area this morning after a scare in the sky caused an unexpected 24-hour journey. an engine problem forced a flight from tokyo to sfo to make an emergency landing in the very remote city of cold bay, alaska. the landing went smoothly, but the 167 passengers on board were forced to wait 13 hours for another plane to come a

regulations. >> we know the drill: prepare if take off and turn off all electronic devices.that will change. you will be able to keep your device in the "on" position gate to gate. >> like any regulation around for a long-term the world has changed in 50 years. let's take a fresh look. >> the f.a.a. is changing rules. >> i am pleased to announce airlines can safely expand passenger use of portable electronic devices during all phases of flight. >> that means tablets and players with games are allowed during take off and landing. the devices have to be in airplane mode and disengage to listen to the safety breaking. if the crew says turn it off, turn it off. most can tolerate radio interference with some exceptions. >> there is a small percentage, maybe in certain weather conditions, low visibility conditions, there could be some potential. >> you still can fought talk on your cell phone. sit back, relax, and enjoy your flight. >> the changes do not take effect right away. the f.a.a. is hoping they are in effect bit end of the year. to read the full report go to abc7news.comu

(electronic beeping) code on 12. stand by. i'll check it out. great. you just tripped an alarm. the kid you've been talking to was here in this building today. so which way to the psych center? cara: hold on, john. that guard, he's headed your way. you gotta get out of there. there's an exit directly behind you. straight it is. (sighing) (electronic beeping) man: (on walkie-talkie) someone just accessed suite 112 with the missing key card. copy that. i'm outside the door. john: all right, i got his file. (electronic beeping) man: we're on his tail. (train whistle blowing) what were you thinking? we don't use our powers out in the open. i didn't have a choice. they were ultra agents. must have been following me. are you sure you lost them? yeah, cara, i'm pretty sure. i just hope your mystery patient was worth it. what do you think? stephen jameson. it can't be. woman: stephen? wake up. stephen jameson? it's nice to finally know your name. (screaming) oh, my god! man: what the... okay, okay, okay, i can explain, just... okay. you don't want to listen. what? what happened? guess w

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insert mobile phones and electronic devices are turned off. if you're -- >> i love that little video there. delta, chris lawrence, reagan national airport. i'm one of the people in the back of the plane on my phone trying to get the last bit in here, if it's e-mail or message. >> you're not in the back of the plane. you're up the front. >> i am. at the front of the plane, still sneaking it in. what's the difference here? what can we do and not do? >> reporter: well, michael, i'm glad you called suzanne out on her first class travel, that's the first thing. you won't be able to stay on your phone during take-off, landing or while flying. you won't be able to make calls and be on the phone but you will be able to keep it on, listen to music, the same with it ipad, watch the movie or get a jump on reading your book on the kindle. you will no longer have to turn those devices off. that's the big change. it's going to be rolling out airline by airline, plane by plane. got to make sure that each plane is sort of set up to handle the any interference

could a new electronic billboard soon go up in palo alto? i'll take a look at the controversy coming up in a live report. >>> well, if you drive near there, you can spot electronic billboards up and down highway 101 and could soon see one pop up in palo alto just off 101 near colorado avenue. nbc bay area's marianne favro join us in east palo alto, why it may be going up and why some are not putting out the welcome sign. >> reporter: well, jessjessica,y of palo alto is considering putting up an electronic billboard like the one you see here already up in east palo alto. all that advertising has the potential to generate millions of dollars for palo alto, but neighbors are worried about the problems it may generate. the city of palo alto is hoping a billboard like this will help pay its bills. companies pay thousands of dollars to advertise on this electronic billboard off northbound highway 101 in east palo alto and now palo alto is considering putting a similar sign up here across the highway at the end of colorado avenue. the city says an

it's the latest trend to take the tobacco world by storm the electronic cigarette when it came on the scene in two thousand and seven it was virtually unheard of but in just six years the device has turned into a billion dollar industry even though it's still called a cigarette and can even look like one many of its users say it's the furthest thing from smoking but we call it paper was like water vapor. back when all you have it all tarring along and that's jonathan elias owner of my one of the only full service bathing shops in northern virginia and he says it's the non-tobacco aspect that's really appealing to customers unlike traditional cigarettes that burn tobacco and paper east cigarettes use a battery to heat a liquid containing nicotine which is stored in flavored cartridges and that substance is then converted into vapor it's a technological tool that allows for users to adjust their nicotine level which elia says is helping adults slowly wean themselves off of conventional smoking despite the anecdotal evidence the f.d.a. has yet to conduct a study proving that e.c. carets

. >>> changes to the use of electronic devices on planes. what you will and won't be able to do in the near future. >> hi, everybody. i'm mary bubala. >> i'm kai jackson. here's what people are talking about. >> if you like to stay connected while you fly, the skies are about to become a lot more friendly. the faa is relaxing the rules on electronics like phones and laptops. danielle nottingham reports. >> reporter: airline passengers will soon be able to go gate to date, use -- gate, using e- readers, laptops. >> airlines can safely expand passenger use of portable electronic devices during all phases of flight. >> reporter: business traveler taznim cambati says the change will make her more productive. >> because you're waiting in a terminal for 20, 30, 40 minutes. that could be spent doing work. >> reporter: phone calls are still not allowed. and neither is surfing the web unless you're using the terminal's wifi connection. >> reporter: all gadget the will have to be put down during the safety instructions. >> i certainly believe there is

the first electronic cigarette to. leave the real that's why i'm in love with louise six now the next switch to blue i feel better about myself and i feel free to have one almost anywhere when i'm driving at home watching t.v. when i'm in the clear the point is you can smoke blew virtually any. we're all adults here. time we take our freedom according to an august new york times report this industry advertising is booming with a spending increase of two point seven million in two thousand and ten to twenty point eight million in two thousand and twelve ericus ward of the american lung association warns that this kind of marketing is dangerous they are trying the some of the same old tactics that big tobacco did that have resulted in millions of americans dying from from tobacco use and they are working very hard at exploiting the loopholes associated to that that is cigarettes have to be able to glamorize their existing products however representatives of these east cigarette companies reject the accusation that there

. >> rose is among the record 48 million americans who shop for groceries by presenting an electronic benefits card. but she'll are to stretch it further when on average, it drops $1.40 per meal. that's less than a cup of coffee at starbucks. president obama's agenda of higher taxes on the rich and extended benefits for the needy would have a lot of appeal. once staunchly democratic, they gave mitt romney 70% of its vote last year. it has been voting for republicans since 1996. they include freida turner, a democrat who runs her own chart. and packs free lunches for hundreds of local school kids. she said the hunger here is genuine, but it's made worse by generations of reliance on welfare payments >> i'm talking about 45% of the people that don't work with their families. we have a lot of parents on drugs. they get their ssi payments, and food stamps, and cash it in at the store. >> but cutting the food starches would hurt the truly needy, including seniors. >> some people think that everybody that draws food stamps are trying to live off the system, and they don't think about people