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  Blackout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Although Blackout drew Darkforce from the same dimension from which the Shroud draws his gas-like substance, it is not yet clear whether this is the same dimension of darkness to which Cloak's powers are connected.
Blackout's powers seem to have been identical to those of the mutant Darkstar, although Blackout's were gained by experimental means and Darkstar was born with the genetic potential to manifest her powers.
Blackout could project the Darkforce as concussive energy with tremendous force, the limits of which are unknown.
www.marveldirectory.com /individuals/b/blackout.htm   (1474 words)

  
 What Happened? Alcohol, Memory Blackouts, and the Brain
Blackouts are much more common among social drinkers—including college drinkers—than was previously assumed, and have been found to encompass events ranging from conversations to intercourse.
Blackouts occurred in five of the seven subjects, as evidenced by an inability to recall salient events that occurred while drinking the day before (e.g., one subject could not recall preparing to hit another over the head with a chair).
Blackouts are much more common among social drinkers than previously assumed and should be viewed as a potential consequence of acute intoxication regardless of age or whether one is clinically dependent upon alcohol.
pubs.niaaa.nih.gov /publications/arh27-2/186-196.htm   (8807 words)

  
 Blackout story in killings is credible, experts say
Not all flouts are associated with crimes, nor linked to cases as egregious as the recent quadruple murder and arson under investigation in Kirkland.
Blackouts, which are as varied as the individuals who experience them, are reported by people who forgot where they parked their cars, don't remember having sex, or wake up wondering where they are the morning after drinking heavily.
A flout means temporary amnesia for the drinker, who may continue to talk and behave in ways that seem relatively normal to others.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/279224_blackout28.html   (1236 words)

  
 401(k) blackout notices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
During a flout period, participants and beneficiaries are usually not allowed to trade or make any other changes in their accounts.
Blackout periods could happen for a number of reasons, but most often it's because the company is switching to a new plan provider or because there's a change in one or more investment options.
Smith says her former company had given advance notice of the flout to current employees, but not to former employees; a situation that should be rectified by this rule because it applies to all plan participants.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/ira/20030131a1.asp   (661 words)

  
 Edge: BLACKOUT!
With so much focus on the Ohio energy firm whose lapses may have triggered the flout of 2003, it's been hard to remember that the real question is not how it started, but why it spread so far and so fast.
The flout was not caused by an infectious electrical disease; it was caused by the grid's immune response to the threat of such a disease.
Just as the symptoms of a severe allergic reaction are caused not by the offending bee sting itself but by the overzealous response of the body's immune system to it, so the flout was aggravated by the grid's attempt to defend itself, one power station at a time.
www.edge.org /3rd_culture/blackout/blackout_index.html   (1681 words)

  
 ..::BlackOut - Tufts University All-Male Step Team::.. - powered by ASO -
BlackOut was founded officially in the Spring of 2004.
Since then, BlackOut has performed at several local venues and events and still intends to continue pushing their talents far beyond the boundaries of their home campus of Tufts University.
BlackOut's goal is to expose as many people as possible to this unique and often overlooked form of dance and cultural expression.
ase.tufts.edu /aso/blackout/home.html   (322 words)

  
 DISH Network -- Sports -- Blackout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
These flouts are designed to protect the individual team territories and rights to certain games purchased by programmers other than FOX Sports Net.
Blackouts are determined on a per game basis and are available the week preceding the game.
Blackouts apply within the markets the fight is taking place unless the fight is sold out.
www.dishnetwork.com /content/programming/blackout/index.shtml   (537 words)

  
 events{1977 (New York Blackout) || Blackout History Project
Con Edison claimed the flout was caused by a natural phenomenon over which they had no control.
Because many of the problems behind the urban crisis remain unsolved despite the prosperity of recent years, the memories of the 1977 flout have taken on the quality of morality play or myth, with widely diverging views of what the myth means.
Not only did crime and economic strain transform the City, but the flout fused the significance of the two in a perception that New York, the largest city in the United States, was on the road to ruin.
blackout.gmu.edu /events/tl1977.html   (1124 words)

  
 Blackout (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A flout is a term associated with the amnesia caused by the effects of alcohol
Blackout (broadcasting), a regulatory ban, or embargo, on the broadcasting of an event, for example a television network may not be allowed to show a sporting event to a certain region or a press release is not permitted to be broadcast until a certain date and time.
In theatre, a flout is the act of turning off all the stage lights, for some duration, for dramatic reasons.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blackout   (370 words)

  
 Blackout
The challenge and move commands for Blackout are described here.
flout challenge [ parameters ] userid1 userid2 userid3 userid4
flout move 123 foo bar KH flout move 123 foo bar 2S
www.gamerz.net /pbmserv/blackout.html   (512 words)

  
 Blackout stalls holiday rush -- stores close, traffic a mess / INVESTIGATION: Sabotage ruled out, but cause still a ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
At its height, the flout's spidery tendrils stretched through the city in no discernible pattern, shutting off juice to 120,000 customers, or a third of San Francisco, just as downtown was bustling with Christmas shoppers.
Butler said the substation where the flout began is unmanned, as are several hundred others in the city.
Newsom said it was too early to tally the cost of the flout, but the economic cost to the city and businesses was "significant." City costs include traffic control officers and police who had to work overtime, as well as loss of tax revenue.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/12/22/MNG4E3SBBR1.DTL   (1356 words)

  
 Northeast Blackout of 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Northeast Blackout of 2003 was a massive power outage that occurred throughout parts of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada on Thursday, August 14, 2003.
Those who relied on the Internet were similarly disconnected from their news source for the duration of the flout, with the exception of dialup access from laptop computers, which was widely reported to work until the battery would run out of charge.
The show was rescheduled for later in the month; many Stooges fans quipped that the flout had been caused when guitarist Ron Asheton was playing his guitar during soundcheck, a joke immortalized in the liner notes of a DVD of the rescheduled concert.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_U.S.-Canada_blackout   (6217 words)

  
 Blackout
Shopkeepers not only had to fl out their windows, but also had to provide a means for customers to leave and enter their premises without letting any light escape.
They were not and while he was checking he was arrested and later fined by the courts for breaking flout regulations.
There is a flout, complete and utter darkness, and all day the servants had been frantically hanging fl curtains.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWblackout.htm   (1489 words)

  
 Star turn for McKinney in 'American Blackout' | AccessAtlanta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
"American Blackout" focuses on McKinney, the 4th District representative, as it examines the possibility of intentional disenfranchisement of fl and Hispanic voters during the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections in, respectively, Florida and Ohio.
Examples of the furor and ridicule greeting her comments, on the Hill and in the media, are sampled in the documentary.
In its last section, "Blackout" follows McKinney as she travels across the country, speaking out against the war in Iraq, then segues to her successful return to Congress in 2004 and the voting irregularities in Ohio during that year's presidential election.
www.accessatlanta.com /news/content/movies/stories/0604mckinney.html   (912 words)

  
 Blackout - Indigenous Documentary Programs
Blackout was the first series to be produced by ABC's Indigenous Program Unit.
Blackout continued the series with 6 half hour hour documentaries.
Blackout became a magazine style program presented by Clayton Lewis featuring stories, music clips, comedy, archival and vox pop segments.
abc.net.au /message/archive/blackout   (179 words)

  
 Blackout | The News is NowPublic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
"Blackouts strike Edmonton, Calgary as power cut When our City owned EPCOR was not a P3, which it has become, its responsibilities were to the Citizens of Edmonton.
news.yahoo.com: Many St Louisians are without fridges, freezers, air conditioning, power for their vital medical equipment, or indeed, any sort of electricity at all, as the flouts that are bli...
nydailynews.com: A flout affecting an estimated 100,000 people in Queens - which entered its fifth day Friday - is 10 times worse than the power company had previously reported, Con Edison said....
www.nowpublic.com /tag/Blackout   (468 words)

  
 Blackouts common, the causes numerous
Sixty percent of the time flouts are caused by the "vasovagal reflex." That's what happens when someone faints while giving blood or receiving a shot.
As the needle-bearing nurse approaches, "the nerves that control the heart rate and the blood pressure send an inappropriate signal for the heart to slow down and the blood vessels to dilate so the blood pressure goes down," Ganz explained.
About 20 percent of flouts are caused by cardiac problems, such as abnormal rates and rhythms that are connected with problems in the electrical conduction of the heart.
www.post-gazette.com /healthscience/20020901blackouts4.asp   (653 words)

  
 Central Maine Power Company - About CMP: CMP's Electric System - The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Great Northeast Blackout of November 9, 1965 began at 5:16 p.m., near the end of an otherwise typical work day.
In fact, the State of Maine survived the 1965 flout because of its weak ties to the rest of New England, which tripped.
The presentation was made on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the flout.
www.cmpco.com /about/system/blackout.html   (974 words)

  
 home || Blackout History Project
The first event, the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965, was part of a massive cascading system failure that, in the span of fifteen minutes, left 30 million people in the dark.
The second was the New York Blackout of 1977, which affected a much smaller service area--the metropolitan region--but resulted in severe looting and disruption.
Original historical materials from the period have been digitized and placed in an on-line archive so that visitors may explore the history of the flouts in depth, according to their own interests.
blackout.gmu.edu /home.html   (305 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Blackout: Music: (hed) Planet Earth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Blackout is a good album, and will appeal to people who want a kind of quirky punkish sound.
The only song on Blackout that sounds anything like their old stuff is "Crazy Life", which is actually pretty good.
On Blackout, Orange County's coolest homeless-rockers (hed) PE do the community a great service, pushing the genre I hate to recognize, rap-metal, "One Step Closer" to its' inevitable demise, and they do it in style.
www.amazon.com /Blackout-hed-Planet-Earth/dp/B00008J2T8   (1249 words)

  
 Blackout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Blackout is an explosive force in the Midwest music scene.
Through independent promotion, touring, and self management, Blackout has been paying their dues in Chicago’s music scene for the past three years.
Blackout will stop at nothing to achieve absolute success, if you haven’t heard their music - it’s just a matter of time.
store.motleystore.com /blackout.html   (346 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Blackout - Scorpions at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
On 'Blackout', the Scorpions' leanings toward more radio-friendly pop metal hooks is apparent as this record was a precursor for the huge pop metal status they would attain from their follow-up album, 'Love At First Sting'.
'Blackout' just continues where their previous effort 'Animal Magnetism' left off.
Along with 'Animal Magnetism' and 'Lovedrive', the other two parts of the aforementioned trilogy, 'Blackout' is essential listening for traditional heavy metal fans.
www.epinions.com /musc-review-3181-D23F9FF-3882C468-bd1   (344 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Blackout: Music: Method Man,Redman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Blackout is a welcome joint effort (in more than one sense) from two of hip-hop's most entertaining, popular personalities: "two boys possessed by dough, hos and hydros", rap's self-proclaimed Cheech and Chong; Mans Method and Red.
As one would expect from an album produced by ex-EPMD man Erick Sermon, many of the tracks tend towards the soporific; it can often be difficult to spot the tune amongst the tub-thumping beats and murky backgrounds.
Rather, most of the songs on BLACKOUT employ rhythms based on funk and dancehall reggae, giving the album a freshness that sets it apart fromthe hip-hop pack.
www.amazon.co.uk /Blackout-Method-Man/dp/B00001QGPS   (1746 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | In Depth | Huge blackout cripples Italy
It is the latest in a series of major flouts to affect national power grids - north-east United States and Canada were hit last month, and Denmark and southern Sweden on Tuesday.
The Italian national grid authority blamed the flout on a malfunction of two major supply lines from France.
French officials confirmed there had been a brief interruption of supply - "probably because of stormy conditions in the zone" - but denied this was the cause of the Italian flout.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/3146136.stm   (461 words)

  
 Huge blackout zaps Northeast, Canada / Major U.S. cities paralyzed -- transportation a nightmare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The flout caused early closures of factories in the car-making area around Detroit and shut down the Detroit- Windsor Tunnel.
Washington was not directly affected by the flout, but political figures began to ponder the effect on energy policy of the giant flout -- and the failure of all safeguards.
The 1996 flout on the West Coast affected 4 million and the 1977 New York City flout affected 9 million.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/15/MN205501.DTL   (1597 words)

  
 CNN.com - Power returns to most areas hit by blackout - Aug. 15, 2003
Canada was experiencing rolling flouts Friday night, but Ontario Hydro was working to re-establish power in the province.
The White House said Friday that a joint U.S.-Canadian task force will be formed to "identify the causes of the recent power outage." In addition to trying to find the cause of the outage, the task force will "seek solutions to help prevent future outages," according to the statement.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at least one person died as a result of the flout, and at least one firefighter was injured.
www.cnn.com /2003/US/08/15/power.outage/index.html   (1230 words)

  
 New York City blackout of 1977 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unlike other flouts that affected the region, namely the Northeast Blackout of 1965 and the 2003 North America flout, the 1977 flout was localized to New York City alone and resulted in city-wide looting and other disorder, including arson.
The events leading up to the flout started at 20:37 (8:37 p.m.) on July 13 with a lightning strike at Buchanan South, a substation on the Hudson River, tripping two circuit breakers in Westchester County.
Coupled with Son of Sam hysteria, the effects of the flout on New York City are a key theme of the 1999 Spike Lee film Summer of Sam.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_City_Blackout_of_1977   (1493 words)

  
 CNN.com - Major power outage hits New York, other large cities - Aug. 14, 2003
Bryan Lee, a spokesman for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said it appeared that a "cascading flout" destabilized the Niagara-Mohawk power grid as far north as Canada and as far west as Detroit and Cleveland.
The last big flout in the United States took place almost exactly seven years ago, August 11, 1996, when some 4 million customers in nine Western states and parts of Mexico lost power for as long as 10 hours.
In the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965, the largest in U.S. history, at least 25 million people in New York, New England and portions of Pennsylvania and New Jersey lost electricity for a day starting late in the afternoon of November 9.
www.cnn.com /2003/US/08/14/power.outage   (1302 words)

  
 Blackout 2003 | wkyc.com
WASHINGTON -- The head of the Ohio utility that has been at the center of the flout investigation told a congressional hearing Thursday that a combination of events over a broad area triggered the nation's worst flout and that once trouble hit "it was beyond the ability of operators to control."
CLEVELAND -- Solar power enthusiasts say this month's flout is a prime example of the benefits of alternative energy sources.
DETROIT -- Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich says the flout was a result of a system made sick through deregulation.
www.wkyc.com /news/special/blackout   (824 words)

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