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 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.

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.

In English, proper names in their primary application cannot normally be modified by an article or other determiner ( such as any or another ), although some may be taken to include the article the, as in The Gambia, The Roaring Forties, or the Rolling Stones.

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 ).

The album's five ' acid stamps ' and first track " Ah Feel like Ahcid " may underline this, while ' Smokin ' Stones ' is probably a ' pro comment ' on the contrasting rhythm and blues style of the Rolling Stones.

* The New Rolling Stone Album Guide praises the album but maintains that it has " loads of self-indulgent filler ," identifying " Revolution # 9 " in particular as " justly maligned ," and suggests that listeners in the CD era, who can program digital players to skip over unwanted tracks, may have an advantage over the album's original audience.

NME called the album " a personal but secretive thrash-pop opera of urban nihilism and passionate dumbthinks ", and Rolling Stone said the album " may be the most potent blast of female insurgency ever committed to tape ".

For example, John Mendelsohn wrote in Rolling Stone that he wondered whether the album may have been " deliberately second-rate.

On release, Ben Gerson of Rolling Stone magazine deemed All Things Must Pass " both an intensely personal statement and a grandiose gesture, a triumph over artistic modesty " and referenced the three-record set as an " extravaganza of piety and sacrifice and joy, whose sheer magnitude and ambition may dub it the War and Peace of rock and roll ".

This may have also been started by a comment guitarist Eddie Van Halen made in Rolling Stone magazine one month prior regarding the punk movement ("... that's like what I played in my garage when I was a kid, man .").

Rolling moments caused by other things that may be related to sideslip have different names.

Rolling the highest possible number on any of the dice is known as " rolling an ace ", and that die may be re-rolled, with the total being added to the initial roll value.

" Rolling Stone gave it high praise as well, stating that, " With practitioners like Stewart around, honky-tonk — and rockabilly — may not be dead yet.

The story is credited by Robert A. Heinlein as possibly the origin of the flat cats in his novel The Rolling Stones, since he may have read it or heard it as a child, but due to the intervening time he could not be sure.

" Rolling Stones Peter Travers said of the film, " You may not buy the premise or the windup, but with Travolta and Cage taking comic and psychic measures of their characters and their own careers, there is no resisting Face / Off.

Rolling Hills may refer to:

The cover song was reviewed by Rolling Stone magazine, noting that " the prospect of a folksy Irish rocker covering a rap ballad may seem strange, but experimenting with different forms is precisely what keeps established traditions vital.

: CSRG may also refer to China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry ( Group ) Corporation

UK Notified Bodies may be appointed by ministers of HM Government under The Railways ( Interoperability ) ( Notified Bodies ) Regulations 2000 in six railway TSI areas: Control Centres and Signalling, Energy, Infrastructure, Maintenance, Operations and Rolling Stock.

Rolling Stone magazine wrote that Cargo " may lack a track with the body-slamming intensity of " Who Can It Be Now?

John Mendelsohn wrote in Rolling Stone that he wondered whether the album may have been " deliberately second-rate.

Also enthusiastic was Peter Travers of Rolling Stone :" A Dirty Shame is Waters unleashed, and wicked, kinky fun for anyone except the twits who rated it NC-17 ... You may even shed a tear when Sylvia bonds with her daughter by confessing, " I'm a cunnilingus bottom.

Rolling Stone may also refer to:

* In Rolling ( metalworking ) " Hot Band " is a wide strip of semi-finished metal ( usually steel ) that may be sold as a commodity or further processed before sale.

It went on to be declared one of the best albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time issue in 2003.

Spin called it a " jaw-dropping act of artistic will and a fiery, proper follow-up to 1994 ’ s Live Through This " and awarded it eight out of ten stars, while Rolling Stone suggested that, " for people who enjoy watching celebrities fall apart, America's Sweetheart should be more fun than an Osbournes marathon.

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.

Among the forefathers of the new journalism movement, Thompson said in the February 15th, 1973 issue of Rolling Stone, " If I'd written the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people — including me — would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today.

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

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Referring to the book's original 1987 publication in a Rolling Stone review pegged to the book's republication in 2002, the critic Jon Caramanica wrote, " It might well be the most comprehensive biography ever written about a pop act while it was still in its prime.

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.

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 ".

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 ).

Nicks ' " Rhiannon ", which appeared on the album, would eventually be voted one of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine.

" The first day I saw him on the set ," co-producer Ian Praiser told Rolling Stone, " I thought, ' Too bad he won't be in television for long.

With his spit curl and the band's matching plaid dinner jackets and energetic stage behaviour, many fans consider them to be as revolutionary in their time as The Beatles or the Rolling Stones were a decade or two later.

Gwen Novak is eventually revealed to be Hazel Stone, a character previously featured in Heinlein's The Rolling Stones and who had played a small but important role in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

Country influences can be heard on rock records through the 1960s, including tracks on the Beatles for Sale album ( 1964 ) ( including " I'll Cry Instead ", " Baby's in Black " and " I Don't Want to Spoil the Party "), on the Rolling Stones " High and Dry " ( 1966 ), as well as Buffalo Springfield's " Go and Say Goodbye " ( 1966 ) and " Kind Woman " ( 1968 ).

Rolling stock did not need to match the gauge exactly ; a difference of a few millimeters could be coped with, so that interoperability on systems with gauges only slightly different was possible.

Rolling Stone editor David Fricke wrote that if one wanted to play a single recording that would " epitomize and encapsulate the famed Muscle Shoals Sound ", that record would be " I'll Take You There " by The Staple Singers.

The album received unanimously positive reviews, with praise from music periodicals such as Rolling Stone, NME, and Blender, as well as a four-star review from the Los Angeles Times, calling it a " wild emotional ride " sure to be " one of the most dissected and debated collections of the year.

Geldof let his feelings be known during an interview for Rolling Stone saying: " Who the fuck are The Hooters?

In a June 2009 issue of Rolling Stone, Oberst announced that he wanted to " retire " the Bright Eyes moniker, and would be making one final album with the band: " It does feel like it needs to stop at some point.

Following this success, Labelle made history again as they became the first predominantly black group to be featured on the cover of Rolling Stone.