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 are a last-resort measure used by an electric utility company to avoid a total blackout of the power system.

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 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.

In the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark for its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazine's political section.

Rolling Stone began a new, much more limited message board community at their site in late 2005, only to remove it again in 2006.

* Australia – Rolling Stone Australia began as a supplement in 1969 in Go-Set magazine.

" Guitarist Richard Thompson has openly acknowledged the album's influence on Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief, and journalist John Harris has suggested that The Band's debut also influenced the spirit of The Beatles ' back-to-basics album Let It Be as well as The Rolling Stones ' string of roots-infused albums that began with Beggars Banquet.

Going freelance in 1981, O ' Rourke began publishing in magazines such as Playboy, Vanity Fair, Car and Driver, and Rolling Stone.

He played several dates in support of it, at first as one of the opening acts for The Rolling Stones, who were then on tour in the U. S. He began 1982 with a small tour of college towns where he was the headlining act.

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 incorporation of other areas, especially between the years of 1959 and 1982, into the city lines of Rolling Hills Estates began in the city ’ s early years.

In November 2006, the Dolls began headlining " Little Steven's Underground Garage Presents the Rolling Rock and Roll Show ," about 20 live gigs with numerous other bands.

The latter hit won them more fans as they began touring outside the United States, first opening for The Rolling Stones.

Despite this, a cult following began to develop and following the group opening for The Rolling Stones on their U. S. tour, the group switched labels, going to CBS Records in 1974, signing with the subsidiary Epic.

In 1975 Wood began working with the Rolling Stones, which brought differences between Stewart and the others to a head, and in December the band announced that they were splitting.

Perhaps the most important contribution of British blues was the surprising re-exportation of American blues back to America, where, in the wake of the success of bands like the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac, white audiences began to look again at black blues musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin ' Wolf and John Lee Hooker, who suddenly began to appeal to middle class white Americans.

On 8 March 1996, the film began a limited theatrical run in North America through Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder distribution company under Miramax.

The following year, he began work as a freelance artist for major corporations and magazines, including Architectural Digest, Harper's Magazine, IBM, ITT Corporation, MGM, Oui, Rolling Stone, United Artists, and Universal Studios.

The second part of the concert began later in the afternoon and lasted into the night and included Justin Timberlake, The Guess Who, Rush, AC / DC, and The Rolling Stones, who performed a 90-minute set to end the concert.

* 1953-Regular production of the " Toyota Jeep BJ " began at Toyota Honsya Plant ( Rolling chassis assembly ), and body assembly and painting was done at Arakawa Bankin Kogyo KK, later known as ARACO ( now an affiliate of Toyota Auto Body Co .).

In 2005, they began publishing a half-gloss journal, Rolling Thunder, with the byline " An Anarchist Journal of Dangerous Living ", which released its eighth issue in 2009.

By the early 1960s the British had developed a viable national music industry and began to produce adapted forms of American music in beat music and British blues which would be re-exported to America by bands such as The Beatles and Rolling Stones.

Moving back to the city, Lenny began writing reviews for Jazz and Pop magazine ; branching out to such nascent rock publications as Fusion, Crawdaddy and Rolling Stone.

Before testimony began in his trial in 1994, Rolling pled guilty to all charges.

It was then that Waits met his future wife, and Jones began work on Pirates, one of the 100 must-hear CDs, a five-star Rolling Stone record, including " We Belong Together ", garnering praise from every corner of rock media at the time.

In an attempt to garner international opposition against the newest U. S. strategic bombing campaign, Rolling Thunder, the North Vietnamese Government began a propaganda campaign using images of the flood to allege that the U. S. had begun a strategic bombing campaign against the Red River dikes.

For the first time in their career, the band began to receive favourable reviews in the mainstream press, with Rolling Stone calling the album " an extraordinarily gripping affair ", and " nothing less than a complete success ".

One story is that The Rolling Stones went to stay at Korner's house late one night, in the early 1960s, after a performance.

The Rolling Stones had an early hit covering the song.

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys ( whose much anticipated Smile project would not emerge until 2004 ), Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd were early " acid casualties ", helping to shift the focus of the respective bands of which they had been leading figures.

Initially developing out of the trad jazz, skiffle and folk club scenes, early artists tended to focus on major blues performers and standard forms, particularly Alexis Korner, who acted as a mentor to members of The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, the Graham Bond Organisation and The Kinks.

The Rolling Stones featured a slide guitar as early as their 1963 recording of the John Lennon / Paul McCartney song " I Wanna Be Your Man ".

The phrase may have its origins as early as 1908 in the cadence song now called " The Army Goes Rolling Along ", which likely extended into tank usage.

Of the album's fourteen songs, eight were written by Lennon – McCartney ( originally credited " McCartney – Lennon "), early evidence of what Rolling Stone later called " invention of the idea of the self-contained rock band, writing their own hits and playing their own instruments ".

* During the bands early 1980s concerts they often performed cover songs such as, " Can't You See-The Marshall Tucker Band, Honky Tonk Women-The Rolling Stones, and Sweet Home Alabama-Lynyrd Skynyrd.

* Dick Taylor-Founder Member of The Pretty Things and early bass guitarist in the Rolling Stones.

Another album recorded in 1974 that was rejected by Word Records was Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners, a documentary album that took " a satirical look at the early 1970s ' religious pop music ' trend from 1970 to 1974 ", written by celebrities who had " jumped on the ` 70s spiritual bandwagon ", and featured Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones, and was not released until 1977 by AB Records.

Charles Hook was the President of the American Rolling Mill Company ( ARMCO )-which in the early 1990s merged to become AK Steel Corporation-and son-in-law of the company's founder, George M. Verity.

Barney Hoskyns wrote in Rolling Stone that with it the group moved " ever further away from the one-chord Velvets drone-mesh of its early days " toward easy listening and Europop.

Rolling Stone describes them as " the archetypal horror-punk band of the late 1970s and early ' 80s ", and they are considered icons in punk music and culture.

In 1985, he teamed up with young Canadian-born-and-raised animator John Kricfalusi to make a hybrid live-action / animated music video for The Rolling Stones ' The Harlem Shuffle, which was released in early 1986.

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones named one of his guitars ( an early ' 50s Fender Telecaster with a Gibson PAF humbucking pickup installed in the neck position ) " Micawber.

Musicians who exemplified this era include The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Cream, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Joni Mitchell, and, in their early years, Chicago.

The band was influenced by vintage rhythm and blues, the early Rolling Stones, classic American girl group songs, and protopunk bands such as the MC5 and The Stooges, as well as glam rockers such as Marc Bolan.

" The Rolling Stones followed suit in early 1967 with " Let's Spend the Night Together " and " Ruby Tuesday.

For the album Make Do With What You Got songs were contributed by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Robbie Robertson, Coco Montoya, Dr. John, and from the Rolling Stones, who had covered three of Burke's songs early in their career.

In the early 1970s, Remi Kabaka, an Afro-rock avant-garde drummer, laid the initial drum patterns that created the Afro-rock sounds in bands such as Ginger Baker's Airforce, The Rolling Stones, and Steve Winwood's Traffic.

In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones launch party with John Dunbar and met Andrew Loog Oldham, who discovered her.

In 1994, she published an autobiography, entitled Faithfull, in which she discusses her early life, career, drug addictions, experimentation with bisexuality and significant relationships with her parents, the various Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.

At an early age, she was introduced by her parents to blues music, jazz and art rock, which, she told Rolling Stone in 1995, would later influence her: " I was brought up listening to John Lee Hooker, to Howlin ' Wolf, to Robert Johnson, and a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart.

Spacemen 3's early gig posters would often make explicit references to their sound being inspired by The Stooges, The Velvet Underground and The Rolling Stones.