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 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.

Rolling stock in railway transport systems generally has lower frictional resistance when compared with highway vehicles, and the passenger and freight cars ( carriages and wagons ) can be coupled into longer trains.

Although a songwriter herself, Baez is generally regarded as an interpreter of other people's work, having recorded songs by The Allman Brothers Band, The Beatles, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Violeta Parra, Woody Guthrie, The Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Leonard Cohen, and many others.

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.

Criticism was generally favorable, with Rolling Stone reporting that " The band sounds familiar " and " beefier " though without the " glint of madness " of the original line-up.

Media reception was generally lukewarm, with Rolling Stone describing the album as " frantic, faceless, fake-sexy R & B.

Garage rock bands were generally influenced by those British " beat groups " with a harder, blues-based attack, such as The Kinks, The Who, The Animals, The Yardbirds, The Small Faces, The Pretty Things, Them, and The Rolling Stones.

Rolling Stone gave the album a mixed review, saying that though the transition to shorter songs generally works, the lyrics are " a wan and ridiculous rehash of the bargain-basement exoticism employed by the British art-rock crowd.

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Rolling Stone and Harper's found the material generally accurate yet maintained they had no way of verifying information because Glass had cited anonymous sources.

ABC-TV aired The Hollywood Palace, an hour-long show broadcast weekly ( generally on Saturday night ) from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970, where the Rolling Stones first appeared on American TV.

Several major rock stars set up their own independent labels-The Beatles with Apple Records, The Rolling Stones with Rolling Stones Records, and Elton John with Rocket Records, but they generally failed as commercial ventures or were swallowed up by the majors.

The SABC's choice of popular music reflected the National Party government's initial conservatism, with the music of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones generally frowned upon, if not banned from the airwaves, in favour of ' middle of the road ' music like that of the U. S. group Bread.

True Love Waits received 4 out of 5 stars from Rolling Stone magazine, allegedly the only " classical " recording to do so, while his Radiohead concert programs have received generally favorable notices from classical critics and promotion on NPR's Performance Today.

Critical reaction was generally good, including a very positive Jon Landau review in Rolling Stone that said " this album is the coolest breath of fresh air I've inhaled in a good long while.

The critical reception was generally good, receiving good reviews from NME (“ Razorlight ’ s debut packs more tunes than Franz, more spirit than The Strokes and more balls than nearly every band out there right now .”), Q magazine, Billboard and Rolling Stone who said

While Infidels was hailed as a " return to musical form " ( as described by Kurt Loder in Rolling Stone magazine ), critical reception for Real Live was generally mixed.

Starting in the mid-1960s, and partly as a result of the success of such UK musicians as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, London became a centre for the worldwide youth culture, exemplified by the Swinging London subculture which made Carnaby Street a household name of youth fashion around the world.

As a result of that ratings success, Michael Jackson would be tapped to perform at halftime during Super Bowl XXVII, and more big-name talent would follow ( U2, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen performed in subsequent years ).

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Giti Khalsa explained the differences between the albums as a result of the band's maturity and position in life:

In 1960, This station is where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards bumped into each other by chance, an event that would result in the formation of The Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones recorded their first single " Come On " at Olympic, a number of Dusty Springfield hits and The Troggs successful single " Wild Thing ", were also the result of recording sessions at Olympic, during the forty year history of this studio.

Largely as a result of collusion between News of the World journalists and the London Drug Squad, many pop stars including Donovan, and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones were arrested for drug possession, although none of the arrests involved LSD.

The company was founded in 1999 as Korea Rolling Stock Corporation ( KOROS ), the result of merger between then three major rolling stock divisions of Hanjin Heavy Industries, Daewoo Heavy Industries and Hyundai Precision & Industries.

Bombing of North Vietnam ( Operation Rolling Thunder ) had ended in 1968, and as a result North Vietnamese forces had built up their air defenses and continued to pour men and equipment into the South via the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Internationally, the Master Musicians of Jajouka are also well known, as a result of their collaboration with Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and William S. Burroughs.

* Rolling Stone ( 12 / 11 / 03, p. 146 ): Ranked # 89 in Rolling Stone's " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time " "... the result was blazing soul and sexual honesty ... that transcended both race and geography.

Cameron was quoted in Rolling Stone as saying that homosexual sex was more pleasurable than most heterosexual sex, and as a result, if homosexuality were tolerated then it would become predominant within a few generations.

Rolling Stone called the album uneven, saying that its bleak tone works superbly on " Graveyard People " and " Walking in the Wind ", but elsewhere it often " turns anemic as a result of either a poorly conceived arrangement or inadequate production.

* According to Rolling Stone, October 21, 1981, Elvis " is a poignant book, the result of Goldman's winning the trust and confidence of hundreds of sources, including many of Elvis ' closest friends.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone stated, " The final result should be a self-indulgent mess-and, in truth, the final third of the film comes close.