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It is nothing you can put your fingers on but the air suddenly fills with a high charge of electricity.
Even the officer in charge, be it a captain ( for small display ) or a general, is restrained by monitoring.
The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.
A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.
There is no charge and no state aid.
`` There is a man named Grabski who is the foreman in charge of the bricklayers at Majdanek.
It is an answer in its way, individual and highly dramatic, to the charge that the democratic process is necessarily vicious in its campaign characteristics.
If the Department of State is to take primary responsibility for foreign policy in Washington, it follows that the ambassador is expected to take charge overseas.
Information is hereby given that Mr. Timothy Palmer of Newburyport, Mass. has agreed to take charge of the concerns of the Patentees of the Chain Bridge, in the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, so far as relates to the sale of Patent rights and the construction of Chain Bridges.
At some cities, this pick-up and delivery service is without additional charge, and, if you are budget-wise, when you are planning your itinerary, you will take advantage of these free delivery and collection stations in major cities within the larger European countries.
If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.
The average charge for this additional insurance coverage is roughly $1.00 a day.
As in the United States, there is a flat fee-per-day rental charge plus a few cents per kilometer driven, and the per-day rate drops if the car is retained for a week.
Further, there is no mileage charge or mileage limitations when you lease a car, and you pay only the flat monthly rate plus a nominal charge for documents and insurance since the car is registered and insured individually for your trip.
Your chauffeur's expenses will average between $7.00 to $12.00 a day, but this charge is the same whether you rent a 7-passenger Cadillac limousine or a 4-passenger Peugeot or Fiat 1800.
The big spread is in the charge for each kilometer driven, being governed by the rate at which gasoline is consumed.

charge and variable
There is only one kind of electrical charge, and only one variable is required to keep track of the amount of charge.
The term now applies to any signal that can be measured or decomposed along a continuous variable such as energy in electron spectroscopy or mass to charge ratio in mass spectrometry.
Most of what was then known about electricity and magnetism, however, could be explained on the basis that charge is a continuous variable ; in much the same way that many of the properties of light can be explained by treating it as a continuous wave rather than as a stream of photons.
The General Electric Company's Charles Steinmetz, who had previously thought that charge is a continuous variable, became convinced otherwise after working with Millikan's apparatus.
This results in a controlled, variable electrostatic charge on each droplet.
Most of what was then known about electricity and magnetism, however, could be explained on the basis that charge is a continuous variable ; in much the same way that many of the properties of light can be explained by treating it as a continuous wave rather than as a stream of photons.
Thomas Edison, who had previously thought of charge as a continuous variable, became convinced after working with Millikan and Fletcher's apparatus.
The BROACH warhead features an initial penetrating charge to clear soil or enter a bunker, then a variable delay fuze to control detonation of the main warhead.
A more modern technique, variable valve timing, attempts to address changes in volumetric efficiency with changes in speed of the engine: at higher speeds the engine needs the valves open for a greater percentage of the cycle time to move the charge in and out of the engine.
Under the Act, universities in England could begin to charge variable fees of up to £ 3000 a year for students enrolling on courses as from the academic year of 2006-07 or later.
The Guardian's Martin Hall however said that there would be a " social cost of variable tuition fees " and said that institutions rated highest in the league tables would be able to charge more and so force out poorer students.
If variable rate electric plans are available with reduced rates at non-peak hours ( typically in the wee hours of the morning ), overnight kWh rates can be as low as 1-3 cents ( US ), thus a full charge could be had for as little as 3-9 cents.
Unlike the 18 pounder, the 25 pounder used howitzer type variable charge ammunition.
The double warhead called Mephisto ( Multi-Effect Penetrator, HIgh Sophisticated and Target Optimised ) features a precharge and initial penetrating charge to clear soil or enter a bunker, then a variable delay fuze to control detonation of the main warhead.
where the fields are calculated at time t and position vector r, r ' is a point in the charge or current distribution ( also the integration variable, within volume Ω ), and t < sub > r </ sub > is the retarded time.
The Office for Fair Access is a non-departmental public body responsible for ensuring that any university or higher education institution in England which plans to charge variable tuition fees starting with the academic year 2006 / 7 has in place an acceptable plan to promote equitable access among its undergraduate applicants and those considering applying.
On March 17, 2005 OFFA announced that the first 118 access agreements had been approved and thus that these institutions could charge variable fees from the academic year 2006 / 7 and for up to the following four years.
In a criticism of Pape's link between occupation and suicide terrorism, an article titled " Design, Inference, and the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism " ( published in The American Political Science Review ), authors Scott Ashworth, Joshua D. Clinton, Adam Meirowitz, and Kristopher W. Ramsay from Princeton charge Pape with " sampling on the dependent variable " by limiting research only to cases in which suicide terror was used.
Dark current is greatest at " hot pixels " within the image sensor ; the variable dark charge of normal and hot pixels can be subtracted off ( using " dark frame subtraction "), leaving only the shot noise, or random component, of the leakage ; if dark-frame subtraction is not done, or if the exposure time is long enough that the hot pixel charge exceeds the linear charge capacity, the noise will be more than just shot noise, and hot pixels appear as salt-and-pepper noise.

charge and however
It would, however, reach the proctors and other officers in charge of the public-school performances of the incepting bachelors, and the place that any individual obtained in the lists depended greatly on how he comported himself in the public schools during his acts therein as he was incepting.
But the practice is likely to be misleading, since it may seem to support a conclusion that, as long as the revenues from any class of service cover the imputed operating expenses plus some return on capital investment, however low, the rates of charge for this service are compensatory.
Intuition told him, however, that she was tired and winded from the run up the Reef and would not charge, yet.
Gershwin was on hand to " supervise " the recording ; however, Shilkret was reported to be in charge and eventually asked the composer to leave the recording studio.
The service however is only free for receiving and AOL will charge a user of 14. 95 a month for unlimited calling plan.
Some high-skilled consultants, however, may garner some benefits such as a bonus, sick leave, or food and travel expenses, since they usually charge a high flat-fee for their services, or otherwise garner high hourly wages.
The caracole was not particularly successful, however, and the charge ( whether with sword, pistol, or lance ) remained as the primary mode of employment for many types of European cavalry, although by this time it was delivered in much deeper formations and with greater discipline than before.
The Third Council of the Lateran of 1179 guaranteed the access – now largely free of charge – of all able applicants, who were, however, still tested for aptitude by the ecclesiastic scholastic.
The field lines are the paths that a point positive charge would seek to make as it was forced to move within the field ; they are however an imaginary concept with no physical existence, and the field permeates all the intervening space between the lines.
A capacitor connected to a voltage supply initially causes a current as it accumulates charge ; this current will however decay in time as the capacitor fills, eventually falling to zero.
The man behind the Frisbee's phenomenal success, however, was Edward " Steady Ed " Headrick ( Pasadena, Cal., June 28, 1924 — La Selva Beach, Cal., August 12, 2002 ), hired in 1964 as Wham-O's new general manager and vice president in charge of marketing.
There are also many smaller film festivals in the United States, such as the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island, New York, the Northwest Filmmakers ' Festival, or the Sicilian Film Festival in Miami, Florida, which do not charge entry fees ; however, acceptance of films is usually more limited, and such film festivals do not necessarily attract big names in their audiences like Sundance and Telluride do.
The Kazaa Media Desktop client could be downloaded free of charge ; however, it was bundled with adware and for a period there were " No spyware " warnings found on Kazaa's website.
If the monopoly were permitted to charge individualised prices ( this is termed third degree price discrimination ), the quantity produced, and the price charged to the marginal customer, would be identical to that of a competitive company, thus eliminating the deadweight loss ; however, all gains from trade ( social welfare ) would accrue to the monopolist and none to the consumer.
Towards the end, however, there was a general slide away from the combined arms approach back to using the phalanx itself as the arm of decision, having it charge into the enemy lines much like earlier hoplites had.
The Apostolic Brief of his appointment, however, came from the new pope, Julius III on 24 May 1550, and he was named not Vatican Librarian, but Bibliothecarius Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae because he was the first Cardinal to be in charge of the library.
Methylation does not alter the positive charge on the side chain, however.
Drawing on this knowledge, both René Just Haüy and Antoine César Becquerel posited a relationship between mechanical stress and electric charge ; however, experiments by both proved inconclusive.
Upon exiting, however, the ions pull an equal number of electrons with them, creating a plume with no net charge.
There are no private schools in Wellfleet ; high school students may, however, choose to attend Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich free of charge.
Because the electron has such a tiny charge, however, shot noise is of relative insignificance in many ( but not all ) cases of electrical conduction.
Critics charge that Gartner vastly overstates his case, however.
Recent evidence has suggested, however, that the lance charge was effective without the benefit of stirrups.

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