Rolling blackouts ( also called load shedding ) are intentionally engineered electrical power outages, used to distribute insufficient power when the demand for electricity exceeds the supply.

Rolling blackouts affecting 97, 000 customers hit the San Francisco Bay area on June 14, 2000 and San Diego Gas & Electric Company filed a complaint alleging market manipulation by some energy producers in August 2000.

Rolling blackouts were avoided when the state halted two large state and federal water pumps to conserve electricity.

Rolling blackouts may be localised to a specific part of the electricity network or may be more widespread and affect entire countries and continents.

Rolling blackouts generally result from two causes: insufficient generation capacity or inadequate transmission infrastructure to deliver sufficient power to the area where it is needed.

Rolling blackouts are a common or even a normal daily event in many developing countries where electricity generation capacity is underfunded or infrastructure is poorly managed.

Rolling blackouts in developed countries are rare because demand is accurately forecasted, adequate infrastructure investment is scheduled and networks are well managed ; such events are considered an unacceptable failure of planning and can cause significant political damage to responsible governments.

Rolling blackouts of three hours were expected to last until the end of April 2011 and will affect the Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Yamanashi, Chiba, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tochigi, and Gunma prefectures.

Rolling blackouts began nation-wide in Pakistan in early 2008 and continue presently in June 2012.

Rolling blackouts were again imposed in late August 2005 in Southern California due to the loss of a key transmission line ; the transmission line shut itself off because of a faulty sensor.

Rolling blackouts continued to affect about 5 % of the population on the next two days ( 29-30 September ) as the electricity company ENEL continued its effort to restore supply.

Operation Market Garden and Operation Rolling Thunder are examples of battles known by their military codenames.

The Studio Notes section of the November 27 issue of Rolling Stone stated that " Devo are working on their first album of new material since 1990's Smooth Noodle Maps.

Musicians who are primarily known as singers or performers on another instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, John Mayall, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bono of U2, Rick Davies of Supertramp, and Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz of The J. Geils Band.

Recognition of the band's importance built over the years, and they are now regularly represented in many assessments of all-time great rock music, such as the Rolling Stone lists of the 50 Greatest Artists of All Time and 25 Greatest Live Albums of All Time, VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, and Mojo's 100 Greatest Albums.

Rolling tobacco can be additive free, although premium additive free products are available.

In July 2008, Rolling Stone commented that " Rush fans are the Trekkies / trekkers of rock ".

Rolling blocks are most often associated with firearms made by Remington in the later 19th century ; in the Remington action the hammer serves to lock the breech closed at the moment of firing, and the block in turn prevents the hammer from falling with the breech open.

Remington has once again made their No. 1 Rolling Block rifles available H & R was later acquired by NEF, and both are now part of the Marlin Firearms family.

Famed " Gonzo " writer Hunter S. Thompson covered the game for Rolling Stone magazine, and his exploits in Houston are legendary.

Rolling and mountainous terrain and the absence of large rivers are conspicuous features of the South.

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Rolling Stone's, noting that " critical acclaim and popular consensus has accorded them the title of the “ World ’ s Greatest Rock and Roll Band .” Rolling Stone magazine ranked them 4th on their " 100 Greatest Artists of All Time " list, and their album sales are estimated to have been more than 200 million worldwide.

Examples include polka versions of Jimi Hendrix's " Purple Haze " and The Doors ' " People are Strange ", The Rolling Stones ' "( I Can't Get No ) Satisfaction " as a cha-cha, and " Sixteen Tons " as a cumbia.

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The last names " Flintstone " and " Rubble ", as well as other common Bedrock surnames such as " Shale " and " Quartz ", are in line with these puns, as are the names of Bedrock's celebrities: " Gary Granite " ( Cary Grant ), " Stony Curtis " ( Tony Curtis ), " Ed Sulleyrock / Sulleystone " ( Ed Sullivan ), " Rock Pile / Quarry / Hudstone " ( Rock Hudson ), " Ann-Margrock " ( Ann-Margret ), " Jimmy Darrock " ( James Darren ), " Alvin Brickrock " ( Alfred Hitchcock ), " Perry Masonry / Masonite " ( Perry Mason as played by Raymond Burr ), " Mick Jadestone and The Rolling Boulders " ( Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones ), " Eppy Brianstone " ( Brian Epstein ) and " The Beau Brummelstones " ( The Beau Brummels ).

In some cases this was not credited at the time-many recordings by acts such as The Rolling Stones, The Small Faces, Donovan, The Kinks and The Who are credited to their various producers of the time, Andrew Loog Oldham.

It is stated that Roger and Edith Stone from The Rolling Stones are now living in Fiddler's Green.

A proper name may appear to refer by having a descriptive meaning, even though it does not ( the Rolling Stones are not stones and do not roll ; a woman named Rose is not a flower ).

Two chart hits from the album, " Somebody to Love " and " White Rabbit ", are listed in Rolling Stone's " 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ".

The introduction generally starts in major, but examples where it doesn't are the Gladiator, the Picadore, the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Rolling Thunder, and Hands Across the Sea ' ' Click here to listen to the introduction of " The Thunderer " by John Philip Sousa.

However, in the original article on Young from the first edition of the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll and a subsequent article in the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide, critic Dave Marsh used this album to accuse Young of deliberately manufacturing a self-mythology, arguing that while his highlights could be seen to place him on a level with other artists from his generation like Bob Dylan or The Beatles, the particulars of his catalogue did not bear this out.

In addition to proverbs being used in songs themselves, some rock bands have used parts of proverbs as their names, such as the Rolling Stones, Bad Company, Mothers of Invention, Feast or Famine, Of Mice and Men.

When compared to the Everly Brothers, who often used the same session musicians, Orbison is credited with " a passionate intensity " that, according to The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, made " his love, his life, and, indeed, the whole world to be coming to an end — not with a whimper, but an agonized, beautiful bang ".

Seizing the chance, the duo's U. S. producer, Tom Wilson, inspired by the Byrds ' hugely popular electric versions of Bob Dylan songs, used Dylan's studio band ( who had collaborated with him on his landmark hit " Like a Rolling Stone " that year ) to dub electric guitars, bass and drums onto the original " Sound of Silence " track, and released it as a single, backed with " We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin '".

*" Rolling " ( from El Oso ) is used in one of the 2012 commercials for Odyssey Metal-X putters.

While other artists such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones had used the Moog in studio recordings, Emerson was the first artist to tour with one.

Van Vliet used the ensuing publicity, particularly with a 1970 Rolling Stone interview with Langdon Winner, to promulgate a number of myths which were subsequently quoted as fact.

Former MI-6 agent Richard Tomlinson alleges that Pentel Rolling Writer rollerball pens were extensively used by MI-6 agents to produce secret writing ( invisible messages ) while on missions.

Shortly after, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones used a sitar in " Paint It, Black " and a brief fad began for using the instrument in pop songs.

The caves have also been used as a venue for live music ; Jimi Hendrix, the Who and the Rolling Stones have all played there.

Using an artillery concept used in World War I ( Rolling Thunder ) which was the only time during World War II it was used and after 25, 000 rounds of HE / WP the hill was taken.

In addition to extensive national radio coverage and critical acclaim from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard Magazine, and other national press, three songs from Ever Since have been used in television shows and films: Better Angels, in CSI: Miamis fourth season premiere episode, " Words We Don't Say ", in an episode of The L Word, and " It's Gone ", in the Jeff Lipsky-directed film Flannel Pajamas.

In music, double negatives can be employed to similar effect ( as in Pink Floyd's " Another Brick in the Wall ", in which schoolchildren chant " We don't need no education / We don't need no thought control ") or used to establish a frank and informal tone ( as in The Rolling Stones ' "( I Can't Get No ) Satisfaction.

Rolling Stone writer Paul Nelson wrote: " Red Headed Stranger is extraordinarily ambitious, cool, tightly controlled .... Hemingway, who perfected an art of sharp outlines and clipped phrases, used to say that the full power of his composition was accessible only between the lines ; and Nelson, on this LP, ties precise, evocative lyrics to not quite remembered, never really forgotten folk melodies to create a similar effect, haunting yet utterly unsentimental.

There used to be a club in Aylesbury in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s renamed the Friars ' Club in 1969 where many of the top bands of the time played, including Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Cream, Otis Redding, The Clash, Hawkwind, Queen, Genesis, U2, David Bowie, Marillion & The Ramones.

In the performance filmed for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus in December 1968, Richards used standard tuning ; and ever since the band's appearance at Hyde Park on 5 July 1969, he has played it in open G tuning with a capo on the fourth fret.

In the 1990s, a morphing-based variation on time-slicing was employed by director Michel Gondry and the visual effects company BUF Compagnie in the music video for The Rolling Stones ' " Like A Rolling Stone ", and in a 1996 Smirnoff commercial the effect was used to depict slow-motion bullets being dodged.

In Guatemala, Mexico and other Latin American countries, the word used to describe this kind of vehicle is " Casa Rodante " ( Rolling House ).

Led Zeppelin recorded its version of the song in December 1970 at Headley Grange, where the band used the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.

Van Zandt's Roadsongs album version of The Rolling Stones ' " Dead Flowers " was used during the final scene of the Coen Brothers ' 1998 film, The Big Lebowski.