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 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 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.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

He entered the storyline as a young radical, reflecting the youth of 1960s Britain, where figures like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and the model Twiggy were to reshape the concept of youthful rebellion.

On January 15, 1967 The Rolling Stones were told to change the chorus of " Let's Spend the Night Together " to " Let's spend some time together ".

Groucho developed friendships with rock star Alice Cooper — the two were photographed together for Rolling Stone magazine — and television host Dick Cavett, becoming a frequent guest on Cavett's late-night talk show.

The singer's dedication to the Rolling Stones was rewarded when the Burrito Brothers were booked as the opening act of the infamous Altamont Music Festival.

A review in Rolling Stone magazine referred to Physical Graffiti as Led Zeppelin's " bid for artistic respectability ", adding that the only bands Led Zeppelin had to compete with for the title " The World's Best Rock Band " were The Rolling Stones and The Who.

By this time, Led Zeppelin were the world's number one rock attraction, having outsold most bands of the time, including The Rolling Stones.

Andrew Loog Oldham, the former producer and manager of The Rolling Stones, commented on how Led Zeppelin had a major influence on the record business, and the way rock concerts were managed and presented to huge audiences.

" I told ya the New York Dolls were the real thing ," he wrote, describing the album as " perhaps the best example of raw, thumb-your-nose-at-the-world, punk rock since the Rolling Stones ' Exile on Main Street.

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.

The following films were released by Rolling Thunder Pictures: Chungking Express ( 1994, dir.

They were the first to earn a platinum record ( King of Rock, 1985 ), the first to earn a multi-platinum certification ( Raising Hell, 1986 ) the first to have videos on MTV, the first to appear on American Bandstand and the cover of Rolling Stone.

Most successful were the Rolling Stones, whose first eponymously titled album in 1964 largely consisted of rhythm and blues standards.

Before he was twenty-one his own poems were published in numerous periodicals, ranging from Rolling Stone to the New Directions Annuals.

In 2004, they were ranked No. 40 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.

According to Rolling Stone journalist and biographer David Sinclair, " Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh and Sporty were the most widely recognised group of individuals since John, Paul, George, and Ringo ".

The Rolling Stones were popular in Europe and then became successful in North America during the mid-1960s British Invasion.

Oldham and Easton negotiated with Decca Records-which had regretted and were embarrassed by passing on the Beatles-an advantageous recording / production contract for the Rolling Stones, in which they got three times the typical royalty rate for a new act, full artistic control of recordings, and ownership of the recording masters.

All tracks on the first Rolling Stones UK album were recorded at Regent.

In 2003, X's first two studio albums, Los Angeles and Wild Gift, were ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as being among the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Several stories later emerged suggesting that the band had initially been called ' English Rose ' or that the name was somehow linked to The Rolling Stones, but these were untrue, Brown explaining " No, I don't know where that English Rose story came from.

He notes that those born in the years before the actual boom were often the most influential people among boomers ; for example, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones Charlie Watts, he was born on June 2, 1941 to and writers like Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg who were considerably older than the boomer generation.

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.

Rolling Stone printed an extremely brief but unambiguously negative review of the 1974 reissue, saying " It's spotty, poorly defined, at times innately boring, and should be avoided by all but the most rabid Genesis fans.

" Love's ' Forever Changes ,' from 1967, is a lost classic of a period when The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Byrds and other top acts routinely stretched pop / rock's boundaries.

Also, when The Beatles ' Let It Be was released in 1970, the magazine originally gave the album a poor review, yet in 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it number 86 in the magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

* George Harrison's 1975 song " This Guitar ( Can't Keep from Crying )", a lyrical sequel to his Beatles track " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", references the magazine in its second verse: " Learned to get up when I fall / Can even climb Rolling Stone walls ".

" In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Rodriguez said that he wrote the screenplay back in 1993 when he cast Trejo in Desperado.

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.

* Dick Waterman related that when The Rolling Stones met Howlin ' Wolf in 1965, they asked who the older man with him was, toward whom Howlin ' Wolf was so respectful.

Their follow-up effort, 1981's Wild Gift, broadened the band's profile when it was named " Record of the Year " by Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Village Voice.

In a 2008 Rolling Stone review, Andy Greene writes that when released in late 1974: " it was greeted by a collective shrug by the rock critical establishment " and concludes: " He's released many wonderful albums since, but he's never again hit the majestic heights of this one.

Rapper Kanye West raised controversy when he appeared on the February 2006 cover of Rolling Stone wearing a crown of thorns.

Although steel making and fabrication is found throughout its history, some say Massillon's steel age didn't start until 1909 when the first sheet of steel was rolled at the Massillon Rolling Mill Company.

Robert Smith has credited his older siblings Richard and Margaret with exposing him to rock music such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones when he was six years old.

Paul Howrilla worked closely with the road management, and when the final world tour with The Rolling Stones ended, he took over via Art Neville ’ s request, forming The Neville Brothers.

In an interview with Rolling Stone in October 2004, she said: " when I'm working on a new record, the most important thing is to not repeat myself ... that's always my aim: to try and cover new ground and really to challenge myself.

British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s and which reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s, when it developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar and made international stars of several proponents of the genre including The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin.

Rolling Stone rated the album 5 of 5 stars but also wrote "... even when his songwriting is sharp, the mellowing trend in his music dulls the impact.

After the disappointing reception for The Envoy, Zevon's distributor Asylum Records ended their business relationship, which Zevon discovered only when he read about it in the Random Notes gossip column of Rolling Stone.

In a positive review of The Black Eyed Peas ' new-found style, Rolling Stone noted that since 2002, when the group " hired a blond bombshell named Stacy ' Fergie ' Ferguson and gave up their pursuit of backpack-rapper cred, they have made a kind of spiritual practice of recording futuristic songs – a total aesthetic commitment that extends from their garish wardrobes to their United Colors of Benetton worldview.

Rolling Stone gave the album three stars when it reviewed the album in 1992 for Elektra's Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim re-release.

However, when the magazine reviewed the album again in 2004 as part of its Rolling Stone Album Guide, it awarded Surfer Rosa the maximum five stars.

While rock has existed in China for decades, the milestone that put the genre on the international map is when Cui Jian played with The Rolling Stones in 2003, at the age of 42.

" Sandy Masuo of Rolling Stone reasoned ; " some punk purists will undoubtedly cry foul, but when the dust settles it's hard to argue with Slayer's metal.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that " fierce, funny, exasperating and deeply affecting portrayal commands attention "; James Berardinelli claimed, " There are times when it's uncomfortable to watch this performance because it's so powerful ", while Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said " Leigh ’ s exceptional performance tears you apart ... we've never seen anything like it before.