The Charge of the Goddess is a traditional inspirational text often used in the neopagan religion of Wicca.

The Charge is the promise of the Goddess ( embodied by the High Priestess ) to all witches that she will teach and guide them.

The Charge of the Goddess is recited during most rituals where the priestess is expected to represent, and / or embody, the Goddess within the sacred circle.

The Charge of the Goddess is also known under the title Leviter Veslis.

Like the Charge found in Freemasonry, where the charge is a set of instructions read to a candidate standing in a temple, the Charge of the Goddess was intended to be read immediately before an initiation.

Charge is possessed not just by matter, but also by antimatter, each antiparticle bearing an equal and opposite charge to its corresponding particle.

Charge is the fundamental property of forms of matter that exhibit electrostatic attraction or repulsion in the presence of other matter.

Charge taken from one material is moved to the other material, leaving an opposite charge of the same magnitude behind.

Among them is Charge !, a leading international fanzine exclusively for miniature wargaming enthusiasts for the American Civil War period.

Charge bargaining in weak cases is not the exception ; it is the norm all around the country.

* December 1 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II ( on January 4, 1970, the New York Times will run a long article, " Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random ").

The Explosively Formed Penetrator ( EFP ) is also known as the Self-Forging Fragment ( SFF ), Explosively Formed Projectile ( EFP ), SElf-FOrging Projectile ( SEFOP ), Plate Charge, and Misznay-Schardin ( MS ) Charge.

Charge flow in a BJT is due to bidirectional diffusion of charge carriers across a junction between two regions of different charge concentrations.

" Sperk ", as described in Matter, is a mood-and energy-enhancing drug, while other such self-produced drugs include " Calm ", " Gain ", " Charge ", " Recall ", " Diffuse ", " Somnabsolute ", " Softnow ", " Focal ", " Edge ", " Drill ", " Gung ", and " Crystal Fugue State ".

The 72nd Pennsylvania is seen briefly during Picketts Charge, and when the Confederates try to overrun the Union defenses.

In the early years he is rather given to sudden and short-lived infatuations, under the influence of which he proposes to Florence Craye ( in Jeeves Takes Charge, the second story in terms of publication and the first in the internal timeline of the books ), to Pauline Stoker, and to Bobbie Wickham.

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with its galloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of this, though Rudyard Kipling had written a scathing reply, The Last of the Light Brigade, criticising the poverty in which many Light Brigade veterans found themselves in old age.

Part of the area is within the Central London Congestion Charge Zone.

* In Flashman at the Charge Flashman is forced by Yakub Beg to shoot Congreve rockets against the Russian army during the period of the Crimean War.

This is a play on Field Marshal Pierre Bosquet's memorable line, referring to the Charge of the Light Brigade, C ’ est magnifique, mais ce n ’ est pas la guerre (" It is magnificent, but it is not war ").

Charge in the universe is conserved.

The change from a progressive local taxation based on property values to a single-rate form of taxation regardless of ability to pay ( the Community Charge, but more popularly referred to as the Poll Tax ), led to widespread refusal to pay and to incidents of civil unrest, known colloquially as the ' Poll Tax Riots '.

The Charge will be levied as an ad valorem tax to be paid by the purchaser, for property above $ 500, 000 in value, and is payable at the time a transfer document is lodged for registration with Land & Property Information ( LPI ).

This was replaced under the Thatcher government by the Community Charge ( popularly known as " poll tax "), which proved even more unpopular than the rates, and was replaced by a mixed Council Tax which combines elements of property tax and a poll tax.

While less harsh on lower-income earners than the Community Charge, the new tax took no account of the income earned by the taxpayer, but did take into account the value of the property on which the householder was taxed, being in effect the old rates system restored.

Within the British Army, such was the consternation over the events at Chillianwala that, after the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade, when Lord Lucan remarked " This is a most serious matter ", General Airey replied, " These sort of things will happen in war.

Terry Brighton in Hell Riders: the Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade ( London: Penguin 2004 ) gives a critical account of Cardigan as Brigade Commander, but finds him in no way to blame for the Charge.

Wodehouse's short story " Jeeves Takes Charge ," the butler Jeeves ' first act for his master Bertie Wooster is to make him a hangover cure very similar to a prairie oyster in description: " It is the Worcestershire sauce that gives it its color.

At the end of each episode, the group gives the viewers a moral, then wrap up the episode vocalizing the Charge music and shouting out their team name.

As the amount of the Community Charge began to rise and the inefficiency of local councils in collection of the tax became apparent, large numbers of people refused to pay the tax.

( a ) a blended or ' made-in-Canada ' price of oil, an average of the costs of imported and domestic oil, which will rise gradually and predictably but will remain well below world prices and will never be more than 85 per cent of the lower of the price of imported oil or of oil in the US, and which will be financed by a Petroleum Compensation Charge levied on refiners ...;

Notice that the magnitude of the electric field has units of Force / Charge.

Charge separation and accumulation continue until the electrical potential becomes sufficient to initiate a lightning discharge, which occurs when the distribution of positive and negative charges forms a sufficiently strong electric field.

Charge separation takes place within the generator, with electrons flowing away from one terminal and toward the other, until, in the open-circuit case, sufficient electric field builds up to make further movement unfavorable.

From 1937 to 1942, Lomax was Assistant in Charge of the Archive of Folk Song of the Library of Congress to which he and his father and numerous collaborators contributed more than ten thousand field recordings.

All four of John ’ s children assisted with his folksong research and with the daily operations of the Archive: Shirley, who performed songs taught to her by her mother ; John Jr., who encouraged his father's association with the Library ; Alan Lomax who accompanied John on field trips and who from 1937 – 42 served as the Archive ’ s first paid ( though very nominally ) employee as Assistant in Charge ; and Bess, who spent her weekends and school vacations copying song texts and doing comparative song research.

On 25 October 1854 at Balaclava, Crimea, ( see Charge of the Light Brigade ) Troop Sergeant-Major Berryman, whose horse had been shot under him, stopped on the field with a wounded officer amidst a storm of shot and shell.

As Special Agent in Charge of the San Antonio field office from 1980 to 1982, he had directed the successful investigation into the assassination of U. S. District Judge John H. Wood, Jr. Before this historic case, Lawn had supervised all FBI civil rights cases, including allegations of police brutality and color of law complaints.

* Charge ( physics ), the susceptibility of a body to one of the fundamental forces

The introduction in 1989 by the Thatcher-led Conservative government of the Community Charge ( widely known as the Poll Tax ), one year before the rest of the United Kingdom, contributed to a growing movement for a return to direct Scottish control over domestic affairs.

Doreen Valiente, one of Gardner's priestesses, recalls Gardner's surprise at Valiente's recognition of material from Aradia in the original version of the " Charge " that she was given.

To be recognized as certified lay speakers, they must be recommended by their pastor and Church Council or Charge Conference, complete the basic course and one advanced lay speaking course, and be interviewed by the District or Conference Committee on Lay Speaking.

Amos Steele was one of the ( relatively ) few Union soldiers to be killed during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.

It is possible for multiple controllers to share the same bus ; but only one can be the " Controller In Charge " at a time.

However, a final Allied cavalry charge, stemming from a misinterpreted order from Raglan, led to one of the most famous and ill-fated events in British military history – the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Cover Charge was one of six Jazz Age novels inspired by the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The title became notorious when George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, as cavalry commander in the Crimean War, was one of the men involved in the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade.

In the CCD, the diodes are all sampled simultaneously, and the scanning then achieved by passing the digitised data from one register to the next ( the Charge Coupled element ).

* The Charge Residue Model ( CRM ) suggests that electrospray droplets undergo evaporation and fission cycles, eventually leading progeny droplets that contain on average one analyte ion or less.

Those actions are Charge, Mixed and Cautious, which when used can raise / lower one of three hidden stats, Bravery, Prudence and Caring.

Basically this means a monster high in one of the three stats will be better at using an attack of that type and more likely to obey, for example a monster with the Personality type Reckless ( which is high in Bravery but low in Prudence and Caring ) will be more likely to use a Charge attack, whereas a monster with the Personality type Careful ( a type high in Caring but low in Bravery and Prudence ) will be more likely to use a Cautious attack.

He was an Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Although acknowledging the power of massed batteries to repel infantry assaults ( such as at Malvern Hill or against Pickett's Charge in the Battle of Gettysburg ), he urged his gun crews to fire slowly and deliberately and reprimanded them if they exceeded an average of one shot per minute.

There are two pieces of equipment made from materia in the game ; the Materia Blade ( which teaches " Ultima Sword " to Gladiators and " Ultima Charge " to Mog Knights ) and Materia Armor ( which has one of the highest defensive stats in the game ).

Also known as the TACAMO mission for " Take Charge and Move Out ," STRATCOMWING ONE operates the Navy's E-6 Mercury aircraft in two operational squadrons and one training squadron.

When one bag was used with Charge 1 it provided Charge 1 1 / 2.

When one was added to Charge 2 it provided Charge 2 1 / 3, and two bags, Charge 2 2 / 3.