query: what year was the new york blackout?

title: New York City blackout of 1977

text: Skull Face's attempt on his life while he was hiding in New York. The 2016 Netflix drama series "The Get Down" showed the experience of the teenage boys of the Bronx during the blackout. The 2017 film "Wonderstruck" featured the 1977 New York City blackout as a major plot element. New York City blackout of 1977 The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. The only neighborhoods in the city that were not affected were in southern Queens; neighborhoods of the Rockaways, which were part of

title: New York City blackout of 1977

text: New York City blackout of 1977 The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. The only neighborhoods in the city that were not affected were in southern Queens; neighborhoods of the Rockaways, which were part of the Long Island Lighting Company system; and the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn which operated its own historic power generator. Unlike other blackouts that affected the region, namely the Northeast blackouts of 1965 and 2003, the 1977 blackout was confined to New York City and its immediate surrounding areas. Also,

title: The Blackout (band)

text: January 2013. The Blackout's final release was a five track EP entitled "Wolves", with their farewell tour held in early 2015, finishing in their hometown of Merthyr Tydfil on Saturday 28 March 2015. The band formed in 2003 "out of boredom", originally called Ten Minute Preview; however after deciding to ditch this name they renamed themselves The Blackout, taken from a T-shirt saying "I survived the blackout" referring to the New York City blackout of 1977. Having performed with the likes of fellow Welsh bands, including Funeral for a Friend, Kids in Glass Houses, The Automatic and Lostprophets, as well

title: New York metropolitan area

text: reported social disruption during the Northeast Blackout of 1965, but the New York City Blackout of 1977 caused massive rioting in some parts of the city. A rare highlight was the completion of the former World Trade Center, which once stood as the tallest buildings in the world. In the 1980s, the city economy was booming. Wall Street was fueling an economic surge in the real estate market. Despite this, crime was still an issue. Beginning in the 1990s, however, crime dropped substantially. Crime in New York City has continued to decline through the 21st century. A major event in

title: History of New York City (1946–1977)

text: of employees by 40,000, deferred wage increases already agreed in contracts and kept them below the level of inflation. A fiscal conservative, Democrat Ed Koch, was elected as mayor in 1977. By 1977–78, New York City had eliminated its short-term debt. By 1985, the City no longer needed the support of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, and it voted itself out of existence. The New York City blackout of 1977 struck on July 13 of that year and lasted for 25 hours, during which black and Hispanic neighborhoods fell prey to destruction and looting. Over 3,000 people were arrested, and the

title: History of New York City

text: free health clinics and other programs, as a guide for organizing and gaining "Power to the People." By the 1970s the city had gained a reputation as a crime-ridden relic of history. In 1975, the city government avoided bankruptcy only through a federal loan and debt restructuring by the Municipal Assistance Corporation, headed by Felix Rohatyn. The city was also forced to accept increased financial scrutiny by an agency of New York State. In 1977, the city was struck by the twin crises of the New York City blackout of 1977 and serial slayings by the Son of Sam. The

title: New York City blackout of 1977

text: mayoral election that year, Beame finished third in the Democratic primary to Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo. Koch would go on to win the general election. The operating entities in New York fully investigated the blackout, its related causes, and the operator actions. They implemented significant changes, which are still in effect today, to guard against a similar occurrence. Despite these safeguards, there was a blackout in August 2003, although this was caused by a power system failure as far away as Eastlake, Ohio. Liverpudlian art rock/new wave octet Deaf School reference the blackout in the song "What a Week"

title: New York City blackout of 1977

text: blackout about what citizens were up against during the blackout and what the costs would be. We've seen our citizens subjected to violence, vandalism, theft, and discomfort. The Blackout has threatened our safety and has seriously impacted our economy. We've been needlessly subjected to a night of terror in many communities that have been wantonly looted and burned. The costs when finally tallied will be enormous. During New York's 2003 blackout, "The New York Times" ran a description of the blackout of 1977: Because of the power failure, LaGuardia and Kennedy airports were closed down for about eight hours, automobile

title: New York City blackout of 1977

text: tight-knit Bronx community during the summer of 1977. The 2007 documentary "" chronicles the entire year of 1977 in New York City and includes a prominent section on the blackout. The 2008 Broadway musical "In The Heights" has a song based on the blackout. The song titled "Blackout" included reports of theft, riots in the streets, and destruction of property. In Lee Child's short story "High Heat" from 2013, a teenage Jack Reacher is in New York during the blackout. In the 2015 video game "", it is stated through cassette tapes that Major Zero had caused the blackout after

title: New York City blackout of 1977

text: with the line "in New York, lights went out." The song appears on their 1978 "English Boys/Working Girls" album. Genesis depict the blackout in the lyrics to their 1978 b-side "The Day the Light Went Out", which appears on the original 7" of the single "Many Too Many". In the 1997 film "Men In Black", Tommy Lee Jones’s character states an alien device was the cause of the blackout as a practical joke. In director Spike Lee's 1999 period drama "Summer of Sam", the blackout is depicted among a series of tumultuous events that grip the panic-stricken characters of a

title: New York City blackout of 1977

text: TV stations were located were still without power for much of the day), although WCBS-TV (Channel 2) and WNBC-TV (Channel 4) did manage to stay on the air thanks to gas and diesel-fueled generators, resuming their broadcasts only 25 and 88 minutes after the blackout began, respectively. Also, although much of New York City was still without power, Belmont Park (a racetrack on the border of Queens and Nassau County in Elmont) did stage their scheduled racing program that afternoon in front of a relatively sparse crowd, as many thought racing would be cancelled that day due to the blackout.

title: New York City blackout of 1977

text: in contrast to the 1965 and 2003 blackouts, the 1977 blackout resulted in citywide looting and other acts of criminal activity, including arson. The events leading up to the blackout began at 8:37 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 13 with a lightning strike at Buchanan South, a substation on the Hudson River, tripping two circuit breakers in Buchanan, New York. The Buchanan South substation converted the 345,000 volts of electricity from Indian Point to lower voltage for commercial use. A loose locking nut combined with a slow-acting upgrade cycle prevented the breaker from reclosing and allowing power to flow again.

title: New Zealand Internet Blackout

text: New Zealand Internet Blackout The New Zealand Internet Blackout was an online protest spearheaded by the Creative Freedom Foundation NZ against changes to copyright law in New Zealand, most notably Section 92A of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act. The protest originated at the 2009 Kiwi Foo Camp in Warkworth and ran from 16 to 23 February. Internet users changed their avatars to black squares, to symbolise what opponents of Section 92A regard as guilt by accusation. In particular, they point to the clause in Section 92A which states "Internet service providers must have policy for terminating accounts of repeat

title: Northeast blackout of 2003

text: Blackout of 1965, affected an estimated 10 million people in Ontario and 45 million people in eight U.S. states. The blackout's primary cause was a software bug in the alarm system at the control room of FirstEnergy Corporation, an Akron, Ohio–based company, causing operators to remain unaware of the need to re-distribute load after overloaded transmission lines drooped into foliage. What should have been a manageable local blackout cascaded into collapse of the entire electric grid. According to the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) – the ISO responsible for managing the New York state power grid – a 3,500

title: 2006 Queens blackout

text: Councilmember Eric Gioia has called for the ousting of the CEO, Kevin Burke, on WNYC's radio show "The Brian Lehrer Show". Hearings were held in August 2006 by the New York Public Service Commission. James Gallagher, Director of the Office of Electricity and Environment of the New York Department of Public Service, testified that the blackout represented a "significant public health and safety risk" and a "significant economic loss." 2006 Queens blackout The 2006 Queens blackout was an unresolved series of power outages that affected the northwest section of the New York City borough Queens in July 2006. The blackout

title: Blackout (musician)

text: Blackout (musician) Winston Thomas, better known by his stage name BlackOut or DJ BlackOut, founder & CEO of BlackOut Movement, is an American Grammy Award Winning record producer, engineer and composer. Blackout is signed to Nicki Minaj's recording company Pink Friday Records. Blackout is also co-founder of the music tech startup company, RecordGram. BlackOut was born "Winston Thomas" in Freeport, NY. His Father is from Kingston, Jamaica while is Mother is from Mandeville, Jamaica. He got his start working high school parties and local clubs in the New York area. It was in the club that he got his first

title: Northeast blackout of 1965

text: blackout found that a lack of voltage and current monitoring was a contributing factor to the blackout, and recommended improvements. The Electric Power Research Institute helped the electric power industry develop new metering and monitoring equipment and systems, which have become the modern SCADA systems in use today. In contrast to the wave of looting and other incidents that took place during the 1977 New York City blackout, only five reports of looting were made in New York City after the 1965 blackout. It was said to be the lowest amount of crime on any night in the city's history

title: Northeast blackout of 1965

text: the borough by midnight. However, the entire city was not returned to normal power supply until nearly 7:00 a.m. the next day, November 10. Power in western New York was restored in a few hours, thanks to the Genessee River-powered generating plant in Rochester, New York, which stayed online throughout the blackout. It provided auxiliary power to restart other generators in the area which, in turn, were used to get all generators in the blackout area going again. The Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center saw the first full-scale activation of the facility during the blackout. "The New York Times" was

title: Blackout (horror experience)

text: Blackout (horror experience) Blackout, also known as Blackout Haunted House, is an immersive horror experience that was created by Josh Randall and Kristjan Thor in 2009, and serves as the antithesis of the traditional haunted house. Randall and Thor began collaborating on Blackout after expressing frustration that it was growing increasingly difficult to be scared. The first Blackout event was held in New York City and the business expanded to Los Angeles. Both Randall and Thor have stated that they view Blackout to be more "performance art than haunted house". Participants must sign a liability waiver prior to entering the

title: 2006 Queens blackout

text: 2006 Queens blackout The 2006 Queens blackout was an unresolved series of power outages that affected the northwest section of the New York City borough Queens in July 2006. The blackout primarily affected the neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside, and Woodside. The outages affected 174,000 people, caused business losses of tens of millions of dollars, caused airport and transit delays and cancellations, and caused unsavory living conditions due to a concurrent heat wave. The northwest Queens power outages coincided with a heat wave in the New York City area the week of July 17. Their effects included knocking

title: Blackout (horror experience)

text: found the experience unnerving. "The Los Angeles Times" remarked favorably on the Los Angeles Blackout, writing "Visually, Blackout is artful and occasionally kind of beautiful, evoking early ambient horror films like Carl Theodor Dreyer's ""Vampyr"."" The "New York Observer" was slightly more critical, commenting that although they had been given a safe word during a 2011 Blackout event in New York City, some of Blackout's scares made it difficult for participants to speak and that they had not found the experience fun. Feminist publications such as XoJane criticized the event's concept, and XoJane wrote that they felt that they were

title: The Blackout (band)

text: as Reuben, Fightstar, and other big name bands The Blackout released their EP "The Blackout! The Blackout! The Blackout!" on 23 October 2006 through Fierce Panda Records, this led to Kerrang! nominating The Blackout for "Best British Newcomer". Under a year later The Blackout released their debut album: "We Are the Dynamite", on 1 October 2007 through Fierce Panda Records. The first single taken from it is entitled "The Beijing Cocktail" and was released on 24 September 2007. "We Are the Dynamite" is the fastest selling album ever released on Fierce Panda. To coincide with the band's debut album release

title: Blackout (Affiance album)

text: Blackout (Affiance album) Blackout is the third and final full-length album by American metal band Affiance. On June 27, 2014, Affiance announced and released their first single, "Limitless", from their new full-length, "Blackout", in the form of a lyric video. On August 22, another single was released from "Blackout", entitled "Monuments Fail". On September 9, Yahoo! Music released a music video for another new single, "Fire!", on their site. Regarding the music video, guitarist Brett Wondrak commented: "Our excitement about releasing this music video has been burning us up inside. We really wanted to turn up the heat on what

title: Blackout (musician)

text: meeting would mark the beginning of Blackout’s career as a music producer. One of BlackOut's beats was selected to be on Ja Rule's Blood In My Eye Album. Soon after, BlackOut started his own production company Blackout Movement. Full steam ahead, BlackOut and his new company catapulted to the top of the game 1 year later when the company produced the debut album from hip-hop artist Mims, including the widely popular single “This Is Why I'm Hot”. Blackout Movement has since worked with some of the leading artists in the industry. In 2012, Blackout signed to Nicki Minaj's, Pink Friday

title: Blackout Records

text: Blackout Records Blackout! Records is an independent record label which specializes in hardcore punk. It was formed in 1988 by Bill Wilson and Jim Gibson. In 1989, the label released its album, a New York hardcore compilation album entitled "Where the Wild Things Are". The album included tracks from Sheer Terror, Killing Time, and others. After this first release, Gibson amicably parted company to start his own record label, Noiseville Records. Blackout! continued to release more local hardcore, with EPs from Uppercut and Outburst, and a live single from Sheer Terror. This was followed by a mini album from Crawlpappy

title: New York City blackout of 1977

text: the following day. Among the outcomes of the blackout were detailed restoration procedures that are well documented and used in operator training to reduce restoration time. The blackout occurred when the city was facing a severe financial crisis and its residents were fretting over the Son of Sam murders. The nation as a whole was suffering from a protracted economic downturn, and commentators have contrasted the event with the good-natured "Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?" atmosphere of 1965. Some pointed to the financial crisis as a root cause of the disorder, others noted the hot July weather,

title: New York City blackout of 1977

text: as the Northeast at the time was in the middle of a brutal heat wave. Still others pointed out that the 1977 blackout came after businesses had closed and their owners went home, while in 1965 the blackout occurred during the day and owners stayed to protect their property. However, the 1977 looters continued their damage into the daylight hours, with police on alert. Looting and vandalism were widespread, hitting 31 neighborhoods, including most poor neighborhoods in the city. Possibly the hardest hit were Crown Heights, where 75 stores on a five-block stretch were looted, and Bushwick, where arson was

title: Northeast blackout of 1965

text: since records were first kept. Reports about an alleged baby boom that followed the blackout nine months later have been considered unsubstantiated. Northeast blackout of 1965 The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Vermont in the United States. Over 30 million people and 80,000 square miles (207,000 km) were left without electricity for up to 13 hours. The cause of the failure was the setting of a protective relay

title: New York City blackout of 1977

text: of the community's vulnerability to steal a mixing board from a local business, as did other aspiring rappers and DJs. "I went right to the place where I bought my first set of DJ equipment, and I went and got me a mixer out of there." The blackout also caused complications for the producers of the film "Superman", who were shooting in the area. The city was eventually given over $11 million by the Carter administration to pay for the damages of the blackout. Beame accused Con Edison of "gross negligence" but would eventually feel the effect himself. In the

title: Blackout (Marcus Daniels)

text: Blackout (Marcus Daniels) Blackout (Marcus Daniels) is the name of a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first character to use the name within the fictional universe. Blackout first appeared in "Nova" #19 and was created by Marv Wolfman, Carmine Infantino, and Tom Palmer. Marcus Daniels was born in Flushing, Queens, New York City. He was working as a laboratory assistant to Dr. Abner Croit, a physicist hoping to build a device capable of tapping into energies from other dimensions. Croit always looked down on Daniels' inferior knowledge, making him feel useless. Daniels always

title: The Blackout (professional wrestling)

text: title was given to Ruckus. Around this time, Sabian and Joker left Blackout and CZW. On September 9, 2006, Ricky Reyes joined Blackout and helped Eddie Kingston win the World Championship. Kingston then rejoined Blackout. Also on this day, Blackout was stripped of the tag team titles due to Joker's departure from CZW when he and Sabian joined Pro Wrestling Unplugged (PWU). On October 14 at "Last Team Standing", two teams representing Blackout were entered in an 8-man tournament to crown new champions. However, Ricky Reyes couldn't be at the show, and Kingston refused to be in the tournament. Instead,

title: Blackout! (Ugly Betty)

text: York City is hit with a blackout. This keeps the new electronic locks from opening, preventing everyone from going to a blackout party that Amanda set up. Additionally, Marc cannot deliver his submission to Mode. Ignacio calls Betty to see if she is okay. She tells him she is fine, but needs someone who can pick a lock. Bobby comes to the rescue, giving Betty instructions on how to open the lock. Arriving at the Meade building, Betty and Marc realize the blackout has probably locked it as well. Marc tells her that he was inspired by her to go

title: The Hundred Year Association of New York

text: The Hundred Year Association of New York The Hundred Year Association of New York, founded in 1927, is a non-profit organization in New York City aimed at recognizing and rewarding dedication and service to the City of New York by businesses and organizations that have been in operation in the city for a century or more and by individuals who have devoted their lives to the city as city employees. The association also provides services to its members to promote to the public their history and contributions to the educational and civic affairs of New York and to preserve, foster

title: New Zealand Internet Blackout

text: the original Section 92a legislation, it still contained forcible disconnection provisions, and was passed under urgency by all parties with the exception of the Greens and two dissident MPs, Chris Carter and Hone Harawira. This use of urgency was highly controversial, with many in the Internet community accusing the Government of invoking urgency to push through highly contentious laws. Additionally, many opponents of the new law called for a return of the 2009 blackout, who also ridiculed the televised performances of several MPs who defended the law. The Creative Freedom Foundation did not take part in this second blackout. New

title: 1977 New York City mayoral election

text: a result, Mayor Beame laid off many police officers and other city employees, which was followed by an increase in crime. (The next month, Ford relented in part, signing the New York City Seasonal Financing Act of 1975, which extended $2.3 billion in federal loans to the city for three years.) A 982-page report from the Securities and Exchange Commission blamed Beame's mismanagement for the city's financial mess, which his opponents seized on as an electoral issue. A major blackout affected New York City from July 13, 1977 to July 14, 1977. The blackout was localized to New York City

title: Blackout (1985 film)

text: Blackout (1985 film) Blackout is a 1985 American made-for-television psychological thriller film directed by Douglas Hickox, and written by Richard Smith, Richard Parks, Les Alexander, and David Ambrose. A veteran police detective suspects that local realtor and father Allen Devlin---who underwent full facial reconstruction because of injuries received in a near-fatal car accident, and married the nurse who tended him during his recuperation---may actually be the same man who committed the quadruple murder of his adulterous wife and their children several years earlier. While John J. O'Connor of "The New York Times" opined that "Blackout" was "never entirely convincing" and

title: Deep Banana Blackout

text: Deep Banana Blackout Deep Banana Blackout (or DBB) is a New Orleans style Jazz-funk band from Fairfield County, Connecticut. Formed in the summer of 1995 when members of two bands ("Tongue & Groove" from Connecticut and "Pack of Matches" from Long Island, NY) joined forces in their spare time to run through old Funk & Soul standards. As the band members' chemistry became apparent, all other projects fell by the wayside so that they could focus on writing and arranging material for what had become Deep Banana Blackout. The band soon became a highly acclaimed musical force on the East

title: Blackout! 2

text: As promotion for the new album, Method Man & Redman put a "Ten Year Reunion" mixtape. Featuring several, well-known older songs from the original Blackout! album, it also includes new songs like "Four Minutes to Lock Down" with Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, "Dangerous Mcees," etc. It also featured new singles like "City Lights" with Bun B and "A Yo" with Saukrates. The mixtape was hosted by DJ Green Lantern. "Blackout! 2" was released on May 19, 2009. It debuted at number #4 on the "Billboard" 200, at number 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, at number 2 on the Top

title: What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City

text: What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City is a 1901 American short film depicting a woman walking over a grate, the hot air lifting her skirt. On The Library of Congress's webpage, Rosemary Hanes and Brian Taves compared the sequence to the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe in the 1955 film "The Seven Year Itch", writing "With The Seven Year Itch (1955, FGB 0012-0023), the image of Marilyn Monroe's thighs exposed under her billowing skirt entered American popular culture. The Library's motion picture and broadcasting collections provide the opportunity to document

title: History of New York City (1978–present)

text: private-sector building projects reshaped large sections of the city, and a residential construction boom has resulted in permits being issued for over 25,000 new residential units every year. While the 2012 Summer Olympics ultimately went to London, New York was among the finalists and the campaign resulted in a plan to replace Shea Stadium with a new stadium, as well as an extension of the 7 subway service. New York City was affected by the 2003 North America blackout on August 14, 2003, at 4:11 PM, leaving the city without electricity for over a day. Unlike in the New York

title: Blackout (horror experience)

text: "not entirely comfortable with the idea that simulated sexual assault and torture should be marketed as entertainment." Russel and Thor responded to these criticisms, stating that they were aware of the sensitive subject matter and that the experience "should be deeper than shock value, it's about finding what an actor and audience is interested in, and make them interested in going to that place. We try to be as clear as possible about what people are in for." Blackout (horror experience) Blackout, also known as Blackout Haunted House, is an immersive horror experience that was created by Josh Randall and

title: National Football League television blackout policies

text: override a station's request; WIVB-TV in Buffalo, for instance, requested a New England Patriots–Denver Broncos game in December 2011, due to the fact that the hometown Buffalo Bills faced both teams in the upcoming weeks and because of the high-profile showdown between Tim Tebow and Tom Brady; the station instead received a game between the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles. National Football League television blackout policies The National Football League television blackout policies are the strictest television blackout policies among the four major professional sports leagues in North America. From 1973 through 2014, the NFL maintained a blackout policy

title: Blackout Crew

text: generally favoured by Mark Radcliffe. Blackout Crew member MC Cover provided a B-side remix for British electronic group Metronomy's 2008 single "A Thing for Me". The Blackout Crew's tracks were produced by Charlie Barratt, who also appears in their videos. Blackout Crew The Blackout Crew are a five piece bouncy house/rap act from Halliwell, Bolton in Greater Manchester, England who had a hit album in the United Kingdom in 2009 with "Time 2 Shine", which peaked at number 42. The album contained three singles, "Bbbbbounce", "Put a Donk on It" and "Dialled". The lines "You know what you wanna do

text: Gorman 1997 Simon J. Critchell 1998 Rudolph W. Giuliani 1999 Robert R. Douglass 2000 Robert M. Johnson 2001 Robert B. Catell, Charles J. Hamm 2002 Charles J. Urstadt 2003 Mark S. Sisk 2004 The New York Post 2005 Robert M. Morgenthau 2006 Raymond W. Kelly 2007 John C. Cushman III 2008 Hon. Michael R. Bloomberg 2009 The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America 2010 Ralph K. Smith 2011 The Crew of US Airways Flight 1549 2011 Dominick M. Servedio. P.E. The Hundred Year Association of New York The Hundred Year Association of New York, founded in 1927, is a non-profit

title: Northeast blackout of 1965

text: Northeast blackout of 1965 The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Vermont in the United States. Over 30 million people and 80,000 square miles (207,000 km) were left without electricity for up to 13 hours. The cause of the failure was the setting of a protective relay on one of the transmission lines from the Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Station No. 2 in Queenston, Ontario, near Niagara Falls.

title: .300 AAC Blackout

text: cartridges representing the first formal military adoption of the .300 AAC Blackout. In December 2016 the NL-MARSOF acquired 195 integrally suppressed SIG MCX carbines fitted with a new folding stock developed for use with ballistic visor helmets chambered in .300 AAC Blackout becoming the first publicly known military user of the cartridge. On the 14th July 2017, the United Kingdom issued a tender for a five year (plus five years optional) contract to supply ."300″ Blackout supersonic and subsonic small arms ammunition". Also noted was the fact that the ammunition type had already been in use. The US Special Operations

title: The Blackout (band)

text: The Blackout (band) The Blackout were a post-hardcore band from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, formed in 2003. They released their EP "The Blackout! The Blackout! The Blackout!" In October 2007 the band released their debut album, "We Are the Dynamite". Their second record, "The Best in Town" was released on 25 May 2009 in Europe and 23 June 2009 in the US, both via Epitaph Records. The band's third album - titled "Hope", was released on 4 April 2011, and charted at number 27 in the UK album chart. Their fourth studio album, titled "Start the Party", was released on 21

title: Media blackout

text: the Poynter Institute, says she was "really astounded" by the media blackout. "I find it a little disturbing, because it makes me wonder what else 40 international news organizations have agreed not to tell the public," she tells NPR's Melissa Block. McBride says the blackout could hurt the credibility of news organizations. "I don't think we do ourselves any favors long term for our credibility when we have a total news blackout on something that's clearly of interest to the public," she says. In 2009, on the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, a number of social media

title: The Blackout (band)

text: released "Radio" as the third single from the album. In August 2014 it was announced that the band will be headlining across the UK in November with support acts Chiodos and When We Were Wolves. In December 2014 the band announced that they were splitting up and would perform their last shows in March 2015. On Saturday 7 March 2015 the band played their last festival date at Takedown Festival, Southampton. The Blackout (band) The Blackout were a post-hardcore band from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, formed in 2003. They released their EP "The Blackout! The Blackout! The Blackout!" In October 2007

title: Blackout (Lilin)

text: vision of Lilith, the demon-goddess who claimed she was his grandmother. Blackout joins forces with Lilith and the Lilin, and would team up with many superpowered offspring of Lilith, all doing her will. Blackout, Creed, and Pilgrim abducted John Blaze's son, then battles Blaze and Ghost Rider. Alongside Lilth and the Lilin, Blackout battles Ghost Rider, John Blaze, Dr. Michael Morbius, the Nightstalkers, and the Darkhold Redeemers in Greenland. Blade impales Blackout through the eye, killing him. Blackout is later reborn along with the rest of his fallen brethren, thanks to Lilith. He has a fresh new face, but it

title: Deep Banana Blackout

text: 7 Willow St. in Port Chester, New York. Later on that year, the band's label Artkin Touchya Records released B'Gock!, a side project for DBB's guitarist Fuzz and his band "On the Corner w/ Fuzz." Also in 1999 drummer Eric Kalb and percussioninst Johnny Durkin went to work on jazz legend John Scofield's latest verve release Bump. The album was featured on "Billboard" jazz charts and pays homage to DBB through the title track (after DBB original tune "Bump & Sway"), and the track "blackout", which features a rhythmic refrain imitative of an audience chant typical of DBB's live shows

title: 2009 Brazil and Paraguay blackout

text: on what failures caused the outage, and responses under consideration. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arranged an emergency commission to enquire into the cause of the blackout. The blackout also unleashed a political stir as the Minister of Energy has been summoned to testify before Congress. The Itaipu Dam is shared with Paraguay. In the immediate aftermath of its failure, interconnecting lines to Paraguay's other large powerplant, the Yacyreta Dam (in the border with Argentina), also failed. All of the country's territory was affected by the blackout. 2009 Brazil and Paraguay blackout The 2009 Brazil and Paraguay blackout was

title: History of New York City (1978–present)

text: City blackout of 1977, there was no major looting. However, during the blackout, Verizon's emergency generators failed several times, leaving the emergency services number 9-1-1 out of service for several periods of about a quarter-hour each. New York City's 311 information hotline received over 175,000 calls from concerned residents during the weekend. Amateur radio operators attached to New York City ARES provided a backup communications link to emergency shelters and hospitals. Amateur radio repeaters were supplied with emergency power and remained functional. Many major U.S. networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX) and some cable TV networks (such as HBO, MTV,

title: Blackout (Transformers)

text: the scanned vehicle. The three Decepticons, detecting emissions similar to that of the Allspark, then stumbled onto Sector 7's trap for Bumblebee, wiping out their military backup. Blackout tried to access Sector 7's computers, but could only glean a few bits of information before they shut it down. After Barricade outlined his plan to follow Bumblebee and see what they could find out, Blackout and Starscream tailed him from the air. In "" #2 the bodies of Brawl, Blackout and Megatron are seen being loaded onto trucks at the Nevada desert for disposal in the ocean. Information in "italics" occur

title: The Blackout (band)

text: Blackout supported My Chemical Romance on their World Contamination Tour along with LostAlone in February 2011. On 1 March 2011, The Blackout released the video for Higher and Higher. On 21 March 2011, it was announced that The Blackout would play the main stage at the 2011 Reading and Leeds Festivals. On 30 March 2011, The Blackout started touring the "Hope" album with support from Texan Rock Rapper Hyro Da Hero (who appears on their track "Higher and Higher") as well as Michigan pop-punk band The Swellers. This was followed by a European tour supporting Funeral for a Friend and

title: The Blackout (2009 film)

text: The Blackout (2009 film) The Blackout is a 2009 American science fiction horror film directed by Robert David Sanders. The film revolves around the occupants of The Ravenwood as they try to escape the building during a citywide blackout, all the while being stalked by terrifying creatures. The film takes place during Christmas Eve when a citywide blackout traps the tenants in The Ravenwood. As the building's occupants try to escape the building they find themselves stalked and attacked by terrifying creatures. The group must work together in order to escape and survive the blackout. "The Blackout" was released in

title: New York metropolitan area

text: the region's and the nation's history was the September 11th attacks in 2001, which killed nearly 3,000 people as two planes crashed into the former World Trade Center and caused the towers to collapse. Businesses led an exodus from Lower Manhattan because of this but were replaced by an increased number of high-rise residences. In 2003, another blackout occurred, the 2003 North America blackout, but the city suffered no looting and a building boom in New York City continues to this day. On October 29 and 30, 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused extensive destruction in the metropolitan area, ravaging portions of

title: The Blackout Experiments

text: The Blackout Experiments The Blackout Experiments is a 2016 documentary that examines the immersive horror experience Blackout. The documentary is directed by Rich Fox and had its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. It was released by Gravitas Ventures in July 2016 on Video on Demand, Cable on demand, DVD and Blu-Ray, and Starz Network . The documentary looks at Blackout, an immersive horror experience in which participants willingly take part in a haunted house type event. The scares are tailored to their individual fears, which they relay to the event coordinators prior to fully entering the show.

title: The Blackout (band)

text: a Name festival for the second time, this time playing on the main stage alongside acts such as Silverstein, Billy Talent and Glassjaw. They also brought along entertainment team The Fuel Girls to support their stage presence. The Blackout also supported Story of the Year on their UK The Black Swan tour, both bands finished off the tour by playing Slam Dunk Festival in Leeds, UK. 8 September brought The Blackout's first visit to Japan playing a short 4 date stop with Alesana. On returning from Japan, The Blackout got straight on a bus to mainland Europe to tour with

title: The Blackout Pact

text: Mae and more. In 2005 they released a video to the song "We Drink So You Don't Have to." December 2008, as reported newly on their Myspace site, The Blackout Pact have decided to come back from the hiatus and start recording again. Now with a new label: Eyeball Records. The band will start recording on January 2009, and the releasing date is expected to be on spring of the same year. The new EP will be called "Wolves In The Lazarette". This will be the second release material since the 2005 "Hello Sailor" album. Former frontman Mike Herrera played

title: The Blackout All-Stars

text: The Blackout All-Stars The Blackout All-Stars was a one-off 1994 Latin supergroup consisting of Ray Barretto, Sheila E., Tito Puente, Tito Nieves, Paquito D'Rivera, Dave Valentin, Grover Washington, Jr., and Tony Pabon. The group released one single, "I Like It" (sung originally by Pete Rodriguez), originally recorded and included in the soundtrack for the 1994 film "I Like It Like That". The song's popularity was later renewed due to its inclusion in a Burger King commercial in 1996 and peaked at No. 25 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 the following year. It has since been used widely in popular culture.

title: 2006 Auckland Blackout

text: 2006 Auckland Blackout The 2006 Auckland Blackout refers to the massive electrical blackout in Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand, on 12 June 2006. It started at 8:30 am local time, with most areas of Auckland regaining power by 2:45 pm local time. It affected some 230,000 customers and at least 700,000 people in and around the city. Power went off at around 08:30 am local time on 12 June 2006 over half of Auckland in New Zealand. Most of southern and central Auckland, including the central business district, were without power. The cause of the blackout was traced

title: Blackout (Affiance album)

text: am proud to be a part of that." Blackout (Affiance album) Blackout is the third and final full-length album by American metal band Affiance. On June 27, 2014, Affiance announced and released their first single, "Limitless", from their new full-length, "Blackout", in the form of a lyric video. On August 22, another single was released from "Blackout", entitled "Monuments Fail". On September 9, Yahoo! Music released a music video for another new single, "Fire!", on their site. Regarding the music video, guitarist Brett Wondrak commented: "Our excitement about releasing this music video has been burning us up inside. We really

title: New York City blackout of 1977

text: During the blackout, numerous looters stole DJ equipment from electronics stores. As a result, the hip hop genre, barely known outside the Bronx at the time, grew at an astounding rate from 1977 onward. Three decades later, Curtis Fisher recalled for a "Slate" article and podcast that, when the power went out, he and his partner DJ Disco Wiz were playing records, running their equipment from an outlet in a park. At first they thought the outage was local and caused by something they had done, but realized when they heard stores closing that it was citywide. He took advantage

text: are nominated by their supervisor and department's commissioner or director and awards are determined by the association's Awards Committee in conjunction with the City of New York's Department of Citywide Administrative Services. The public service awards are named for Isaac Liberman, founder of The Hundred Year Association when he was president of Arnold Constable Stores in Brooklyn. The annual 'E. Virgil Conway College Scholarships' are awarded to the sons and daughters of New York City employees every year. They are named after E. Virgil Conway, who conceived of the scholarship program in 1971. More than $1,200,000 has been granted since

title: The Blackout Pact

text: Justin Hackl is now playing with the band Native Daughters. On October 6th, 2015, Mike Herrera died in his sleep at the age of 33 seemingly ended any future plans for The Blackout Pact to continue. </ref> The Blackout Pact The Blackout Pact is a post-hardcore band from Denver, Colorado. They formed in the early summer of 2003. The band is influenced by Hot Water Music, Small Brown Bike, Alkaline Trio, The Lawrence Arms, and Murder City Devils. In October 2004, Geoff Rickly signed The Blackout Pact to the indie label Astro Magnetics. Rickly also produced their first CD "Hello

title: Blackout (horror experience)

text: experience, as Blackout performers are able to touch and physically interact with the participants, although participants may not touch performers. The attraction's scares will differ depending on the location and will change over time in order to avoid participants predicting what will occur. At the start of each Blackout event a performer may ask participants about their worst fears, which they can then use to tailor the event to make the attraction more frightening. Participants are sent into the event individually instead of in a group and they are also not allowed to speak while going through Blackout, although they

title: New York City Fire Department

text: the city that day only rose by one minute, to 5.5 minutes. Many of the surviving firefighters continued to work alternating 24-hour shifts as part of the rescue and recovery effort. Firefighters and EMS personnel came from hundreds of miles around New York City, including numerous career and volunteer units in Upstate New York, Long Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida and even Michigan. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Fire Department has rebuilt itself and continues to serve the people of New York. During the Northeast Blackout of 2003, FDNY was called on to

text: STV Group, The Hotel Wales, The Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York and Ferrara Cafe. The association is led by elected officers and a board of governors. The most recent chairman, Richard A. Cook, died in June 2007 after a long illness. The current president is Clinton W. Blume, III. The association's executive director is Luke Vander Linden. Past presidents have included James A. Farley. Initiated in 1958, the association grants the 'Isaac Liberman Public Service Awards' annually to career New York City civil servants who have excelled beyond their normal duties during the course of the year. Employees

title: What a Year

text: Nine over the summer non-ratings period, beginning the unaired episodes on 27 December 2007. The new episodes replaced plans to screen repeats of Australian travel series, "Things To Try Before You Die". During March 2011, the Nine Network replayed the 1980 and 1999 themed episodes, on a Wednesday night at 7:30pm on their HD digital multi channel GEM after being abruptly cancelled and replaced with filler shows. What a Year What a Year was an Australian television documentary series, hosted by former ACA host Mike Munro and supermodel Megan Gale in 2006 and Bert Newton and Julia Zemiro in 2007.

title: The Blackout Experiments

text: Tomatoes reports that 45% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 11 reviews with an average score of 4/10. "Variety" gave "The Blackout Experiments" a favorable review, writing that it was "well assembled, particularly in the editorial department, and boasts an original score (commingled with the Blackout events’ own sound designs) whose creepy atmospherics and sonic jolts would work very well in a regular fictive horror film." The Verge also praised the movie, as they felt that "it’s the subjects of The Blackout Experiments that make the film so compelling, as they struggle with their attraction to

title: Blackout (Britney Spears album)

text: can fit into that if you want it to." Ewing also compared the relationship between Spears and "Blackout" with American television series "Twin Peaks", saying that what made the show "so great wasn't the central good-girl-gone-bad story, it was the strangeness that story liberated. And Britney's off-disc life is both distraction from and enabler for this extraordinary album". Mike Schiller of PopMatters said that "Right down to its utterly garish cover, "Blackout" is utterly disposable and ultimately forgettable." Melissa Maerz from "Rolling Stone" explained that "Blackout" "is the first time in her career that she's voiced any real thoughts about

title: Blackout Records

text: NJ's The Banner, The Procedure, and The Commercials. The last official Blackout! release was "The Fire Still Burns" in 2005. Although no longer releasing new music, the label still maintains a blog at its website which is infrequently updated and has the catalog available digitally on Amazon, iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody, and other major digital outlets through The Orchard. In 2016 the label released "The Bulldog Box", a five LP box set of Sheer Terror LP's, demos, and unheard early recordings. Blackout Records Blackout! Records is an independent record label which specializes in hardcore punk. It was formed in 1988 by

title: Blackout (Transformers)

text: used in many missions, including the First Mission and Fourth Mission. He also killed Ironhide. During Megatron's battle with Optimus Prime, Blackout attempted to assist his master by charging Prime. Prime punched the massive Decepticon, sending him flying. He was knocked out by Optimus Prime but was not killed. After that, Blackout went back to the new Decepticon base with other Decepticons to destroy the planet and execute the Autobots and humans. It should also be noted that it can be argued that Blackout is the best playable Transformer in the game, being able to kill almost every drone type

title: Blackout (game show)

text: Century" routinely beat it in the ratings, and "Blackout" did not perform as well as "Pyramid" had in the slot. CBS, unsatisfied with the performance, decided to move in another direction. "Blackout" was cancelled following its initial sixty-five episode order, which ended on April 1, 1988, and the network began working on a revival of "Family Feud" which would launch later in the year. "Blackout"'s immediate replacement was its predecessor, as "The $25,000 Pyramid" was brought back for a final run of sixty-five episodes while "Family Feud" was waiting to debut; "Pyramid" aired its final episode on CBS on July

title: The Blackout (professional wrestling)

text: Castagnoli, bringing the Tag Team Championships back to the Blackout a fourth time. They held the titles for one month and lost them to Onyx and Rainman at "Cage of Death 8". Eddie Kingston lost the world title on the same show to Justice Pain. Sabian and Ruckus would regain the Tag Titles from Onyx and Rainman at "New Year, New Opportunities" on January 13. On April 21, 2007, Ruckus and Sabian captured the Maryland Championship Wrestling Tag Team Championship, defeating champions Phat Blues Inc. (Kelly Bell and Buzz Stryker) and The Best of Both Worlds (Doyle Day and Buck

title: Blackout (Lilin)

text: cloaks the place in darkness threatening and mocking the nuns, but is stopped by being shot with bullets that were covered in holy water. Blackout runs away screaming in pain into the night. Blackout was seen during the Siege of Asgard as part of the Hood crime syndicate. During the "Fear Itself" storyline, Blackout and Deathwatch assist Sin (in the form of Skadi) in attacking Dayton, Ohio. Since Johnny Blaze is no longer Ghost Rider, a man named Adam performs a ritual in a pyramid in Nicaragua in which one of his followers, a woman named Alejandra, becomes the new

title: Northeast blackout of 1965

text: state's recent gubernatorial election. Some areas within the affected region were not blacked out. Municipal utilities in Hartford, Connecticut; Braintree, Holyoke, and Taunton, Massachusetts; and Fairport, Greenport, and Walden, New York had their own power plants, which operators disconnected from the grid and which were able to sustain local loads, though some areas lost power for at least a few hours. Rochdale, Queens was also unaffected as it had its own power plant. New York City was dark by 5:27 p.m. The blackout was not universal in the city; some neighborhoods never lost power. Also, some suburban areas, including Bergen

title: Freediving blackout

text: depending on the dive profile and depth at which consciousness is lost. Blackout during a shallow dive differs from blackout during ascent from a deep dive in that deep water blackout is precipitated by depressurisation on ascent from depth while shallow water blackout is a consequence of hypocapnia following hyperventilation. Different types of freediving blackout have become known under a variety of names; these include: In this article "constant pressure blackout" and "shallow water blackout" refers to blackouts in shallow water following hyperventilation and "ascent blackout" and "deep water blackout" refers to blackout on ascent from depth. Some free divers

title: What Was Lost

text: for which O'Flynn received a prize of £2,500. It was BBC Radio 5 Live's Book of the Month in March 2007. What Was Lost What Was Lost is the 2007 début novel by Catherine O'Flynn. The novel is about a girl who goes missing in a shopping centre in 1984, and the people who try to discover what happened to her twenty years later. "What Was Lost" won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards, and was short-listed for the overall Costa Book of the Year Award. O'Flynn found inspiration for "What Was Lost" while she was

title: What Was Lost

text: What Was Lost What Was Lost is the 2007 début novel by Catherine O'Flynn. The novel is about a girl who goes missing in a shopping centre in 1984, and the people who try to discover what happened to her twenty years later. "What Was Lost" won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards, and was short-listed for the overall Costa Book of the Year Award. O'Flynn found inspiration for "What Was Lost" while she was working as an assistant manager in a record shop. She was interested in the difference in shopping centres by day and

title: Blackout (Lilin)

text: Ghost Rider and chained over the World Trade Center where he is thought to have burned to death. Much later, Blackout was seen among the escaping villains in the prison breakout in "New Avengers" #1, and his sudden lack-of-death is later explained in the "New Avengers: Most Wanted Files", where it is revealed he was arrested before burning to death. Blackout was hired by the Hood to take advantage of the split in the superhero community caused by the Superhuman Registration Act. He helped them fight the New Avengers but was taken down by Doctor Strange. In "Secret Invasion", he

title: Blackout Crew

text: Blackout Crew The Blackout Crew are a five piece bouncy house/rap act from Halliwell, Bolton in Greater Manchester, England who had a hit album in the United Kingdom in 2009 with "Time 2 Shine", which peaked at number 42. The album contained three singles, "Bbbbbounce", "Put a Donk on It" and "Dialled". The lines "You know what you wanna do with that, right? You wanna put a bangin' donk on it", sampled from the song "Put a Donk on It", has frequently been used in the opening of the BBC Radio 2/BBC Radio 6 Music programme "Radcliffe & Maconie", being

title: 1977 New York City mayoral election

text: September 8, 1977. Goodman defeated Farber. The Democratic primary was held on September 8, 1977. Koch ran to the right of the other candidates, on a "law and order" platform. According to historian Jonathan Mahler, the blackout that happened in July of that year, and the subsequent rioting, helped catapult Koch and his message of restoring public safety to front-runner status. In October 1975, with the city on the verge of bankruptcy, Mayor Beame asked the federal government for a bailout. President Gerald Ford refused, leading to the memorable "New York Daily News" headline: "Ford to City: Drop Dead". As

title: The Blackout Pact

text: The Blackout Pact The Blackout Pact is a post-hardcore band from Denver, Colorado. They formed in the early summer of 2003. The band is influenced by Hot Water Music, Small Brown Bike, Alkaline Trio, The Lawrence Arms, and Murder City Devils. In October 2004, Geoff Rickly signed The Blackout Pact to the indie label Astro Magnetics. Rickly also produced their first CD "Hello Sailor". They went on to tour with such bands as Fight Paris, Drowningman, The Lawrence Arms, The Fall of Troy, Folly, The Draft, Rise Against, The Number 12 Looks Like You, Yellowcard, Heavy Heavy Low Low, Silverstein,

title: Financial history of the New York Giants

text: versus the Packers, 10,000 fans at a New York Knicks game spontaneously began chanting "Beat Green Bay! Beat Green Bay!", and when the 18,000 tickets available to non season ticket holders went on sale for the game, they sold within three hours. Fans made reservations for motels in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut so they could watch the game out of the 75 mile blackout zone, and even though the game was played in single digit weather with 35 mph winds, only 299 fans who bought tickets stayed home. After advancing to the league championship game in five out of

title: Blackout (fabric)

text: Blackout (fabric) Blackout refers to a foam-backed, opaque fabric used to black out light. Blackout fabrics are most commonly found in hotel rooms as curtain linings or drapery fabrics, blocking much of the light that would otherwise enter through a window when the curtains are closed. For travelers, third shift workers, and parents of babies, blackout is an essential element in the bedroom. Besides window coverings, other uses for blackout fabrics include wallpaper, movie projector screens and planetarium domes. The process of manufacturing blackout was invented by Baltimore-based Rockland Industries, and involves coating a fabric with layers of foam, or

title: Blackout (fabric)

text: is visible through the fabric side of the material. In addition to blocking light, blackout fabrics also insulate and have noise-dampening qualities, due to their density and opacity. There are many types of Blackout curtains as the list below shows. Mostly these blackout curtains are used more in the UK and Germany, but during the winter season, demand of Blackout Curtains reaches to 300% than the normal buying. And that too because of extreme weather, where the blackout curtains help in keeping the home warm. Types of Blackout Curtains are below Blackout (fabric) Blackout refers to a foam-backed, opaque fabric

title: Freediving blackout

text: consider blackout on ascent to be a special condition or subset of shallow water blackout but the primary underlying mechanisms differ. This confusion is exacerbated by the fact that in the case of blackout on ascent, hyperventilation induced hypocapnia also may be a contributory factor even if depressurisation on ascent is the actual precipitator. Some scuba diving curricula may apply the terms "shallow-water blackout" and "deep-water blackout" differently; deep-water blackout being applied to the final stage of nitrogen narcosis while shallow water blackout may be applied to a blackout from a deep free dive. Nitrogen narcosis does not normally apply

title: Deep Banana Blackout

text: albums were locally produced and distributed, with "Live in the Thousand Islands" selling well over 5,000 copies. In March 2005 and 2006, DBB played reunion-style shows to celebrate St. Patrick's Day weekend. Most recently, the band played at Toad's Place in New Haven, Connecticut, where a home-town presence was felt- seeing as the majority of the band members are from Fairfield, Bridgeport, and New Haven, Connecticut. The Bowery Ballroom in New York City along with various venues in Boston have hosted DBB recently as the main musical attraction. Deep Banana Blackout performed at Gathering of the Vibes music festival in

title: Blackout (Marcus Daniels)

text: wondered what it would be like to harness the energy they were researching, to be powerful. After an accident bathed him in the extra-dimensional energy of the Darkforce, he had the chance to find out. Calling himself Blackout, his body was now flushed with power, becoming a surface of control of the Darkforce dimension. However, despite his powers threatening to go out of control, he escaped from Croit's attempts to cure him and fled. Blackout returned to the laboratories, however, as he needed the stabilizer device to control his energies. But he also returned to find revenge on Croit— Blackout's

title: Media blackout

text: it affecting civilian morale, but was published after it became known overseas. Some media critics have questioned whether the 2000 Wichita Massacre received little to no coverage in the mainstream media due to political correctness regarding the race of the perpetrators and the victims. Such critics also cite the 2007 Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in Knoxville, Tennessee. A media blackout was used during the 2005 New York City transit strike to allow for more effective contract negotiation between the two sides of the dispute. Most typically, the more freedom of the press that any particular country has,

title: Blackout Wednesday

text: Blackout Wednesday Blackout Wednesday (also known as Black Wednesday, Drinksgiving, Thanksgiving Eve, Wacky Wednesday, Whiskey Wednesday, or Awkward Wednesday, or Big Wednesday) is a pejorative term for the night before the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. It is associated with binge drinking since very few people work on Thanksgiving, and most university students are home to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with their families. The name refers to "blacking out", memory loss due to excessive alcohol intoxication. In the south Chicago suburbs in particular, Blackout Wednesday is sometimes a more popular partying night than even New Year's Eve or Saint

title: Blackout (Lilin)

text: Blackout was finally captured by the police. He was freed from prison by the Firm, then abducted Ketch's mother and friends, seemingly murdering Dan Ketch by tearing his throat out while he is in human form. Only supernatural intervention from other sources allows Dan to recover while the Ghost Rider exists as a separate entity. Around this time, Blackout went on a murderous rampage through Central Park, leading to a hostage situation with the police. Along with Mr. Stern, Blackout is captured by Ghost Rider and sealed in a mausoleum. With Mr. Stern, Blackout escapes the mausoleum. Blackout experiences a

title: Blackout (Lilin)

text: police officers, stole the bio-toxin canisters, and abducted Paulie and the Cypress Hill Jokers. Subsequently, Blackout battled the Kingpin's men as well as Ghost Rider again. Blackout was disfigured in the battle when he was scorched by hellfire by trying to bite through Ghost Rider's jacket. This caused him to become Ghost Rider's sworn arch-enemy. Blackout learned Ghost Rider's identity as Dan Ketch, and murdered his comatose sister Barbara Ketch in revenge. Blackout then killed Ketch's acquaintances, newspaper vendor Theodore Larsen and Father Michael McDonald. Blackout continued to stalk Ghost Rider. He encountered HEART, and menaced some human children protected

title: Blackout light

text: US military vehicles when the brakes are applied in blackout mode the brake light appears as a white light. The blackout stop lights are typically in the same taillight assembly as the rear blackout marker lights. Blackout headlights can refer to either front blackout marker lights or blackout driving light depending on the vehicle that is equipped with them. Military vehicles that are equipped with blackout lights have a special switch for controlling the lights that are on the vehicle. This switch serves the purpose of preventing the headlights or any other lights on the vehicle from being turned on

title: Northeast blackout of 2003

text: the blackout, and many stores had only a portion of their lights on. Preparations against the possible disruptions threatened by the Year 2000 problem have been credited for the installation of new electrical equipment and systems which allowed for a relatively rapid restoration of power in some areas. In the United States and Canada, the regional blackout dominated news broadcasts and news headlines beginning August 15. U.S. and Canadian television networks pre-empted normal programming in favor of full-time, advertising-free coverage of the unfolding story. Once terrorism had been conclusively ruled out as a cause, many stations switched back to normal

title: 1977 New York Yankees season

text: to the outfield. The extremely angry and highly animated Martin had to be restrained by his coaches from getting into a fight with Jackson in the dugout during the nationally-televised Saturday afternoon game. Jonathan Mahler wrote a bestselling book entitled "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning" about the turmoil in New York City in 1977, including the Son of Sam, the blackout, and how Yankees season rallied the people of New York. The book was adapted for an ESPN miniseries, "The Bronx Is Burning "Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits;

title: Wait for the Blackout

text: Boy Jet Girl" Wait for the Blackout "Wait for the Blackout" is a single by The Damned. Initially, Chiswick issued "Wait for the Blackout" instead of "The History of the World Part 1" as a single to promote "The Black Album" in Spain, with "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" as the B-side. In 1982, their Big Beat budget imprint reissued the track as a single in the UK, despite The Damned having left the label two years previously. The B-side was provided by Damned guitarist Captain Sensible's spin-off project, Captain Sensible and the Softies, in the form of "Jet Boy

title: Wait for the Blackout

text: Wait for the Blackout "Wait for the Blackout" is a single by The Damned. Initially, Chiswick issued "Wait for the Blackout" instead of "The History of the World Part 1" as a single to promote "The Black Album" in Spain, with "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" as the B-side. In 1982, their Big Beat budget imprint reissued the track as a single in the UK, despite The Damned having left the label two years previously. The B-side was provided by Damned guitarist Captain Sensible's spin-off project, Captain Sensible and the Softies, in the form of "Jet Boy Jet Girl". This