An imperceptible electrical charge ran from the meter through his body.

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Stand in the center of the rotunda and gaze up to the heavens through the eight-meter-high oculus at the center of the five-ton concrete dome --a stunning feat of ancient engineering, still intact after two thousand years.

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The remarkable amusement park is the brainchild of La Machine, a street theater company famous for such creations as the 15-meter spider that crawled through Liverpool, in Britain, as part of the city's Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008.

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The company's network can allow power producers to save money through the automation of manual services like meter reading.

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ADM, which the company claims is simple to set up and operate, has been designed to provide half-hourly meter reading data direct to suppliers through secure information gateways.

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And finally, when the water receded, there was over a meter or mud that they had to be wading through.

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He plans to put the storage bags through smaller scale land-based tests, with four-meter-diameter bags, to prove that his calculations are right.

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The meter on top of the dash showed that the hour-long, 13-mile pass through congested Brooklyn, running the air-conditioner the entire time and being aggressive on the throttle, drained the battery by about 20 percent.

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