Britain's blackout, coming two weeks after America's big one, was widely read as evidence that its electricity industry has the same problems as America's.
Dr Taylor credits this system with preventing another big blackout in his region, and says his counterparts in America's north-east could have avoided last year's blackout if they had had such a system.
The investigation into last year's North American blackout revealed that during the precious minutes following the first outages in Ohio, when action might have been taken to prevent the blackout spreading, the local utility's managers had to ask the regional system operator by phone what was happening on their own wires.
The island's blackout followed heavy snowfalls in parts of Scotland which resulted in dozens of schools being closed.
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It has been suggested, for instance, that the jellyfish that caused Friday's blackout had congregated inshore because they sensed an earthquake was imminent.
Twitter said the site's blackout was caused by a "denial-of-service attack, " which likely means a hacker used a number of infected computers to send enough automated requests to the site to overwhelm it.
As the nation rouses itself to address the lessons learned from last week's blackout, it better focus not only on how to avoid a repetition but also on a possibly vastly more serious blackout next time.
U.S. citizens are allowed to visit Cuba, an island shrouded in a virtual blackout to the U.S. and other parts of the world, but must apply for special licenses to do so.
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England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson backed the squad's media blackout.
Even so, the longstanding blackout combined with Mr. Lin's popularity could prompt some Time Warner Cable subscribers to switch TV providers.
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Additionally, Bush's proposals would have company executives undertake responsibility for the employee's investments during such "blackout periods" when workers are not permitted to sell, and require a 30-day notice before such a blackout period can begin.
Despite its inherent illogic, the notion that last week's massive, cascading electrical blackout was a "wake-up" call seems now to have become as much a part of the political landscape as has the effort to assign blame for this costly man-made disaster.
Mr. Lamb, a journalism professor at Indiana University in Indianapolis, is the author of "Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training" (University of Nebraska, 2004).
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After last year's New York City Triathlon, where he wore the blackout glasses in accordance with the rule, Scheidies said he apologized to several others for running into them.
Mr Eves's opponents pledged primly they would not play politics over the blackout.
Users of YouTube in Egypt could face a month-long blackout of the service after an administrative court ruling ordered the website's suspension.
Santiago, Chile (CNN) -- Much of Chile was in the dark Sunday after a blackout knocked out power to 90 percent of the country, CNN's sister network in the country reported.
The Superdome's power company took the blame Friday for the Super Bowl blackout, saying the cause was a faulty device that had been installed in its switching gear to prevent a failure of electric cables leading to the stadium.
The Nets are encouraging a "blackout, " asking fans to wear black, one of the team's colors.
"That really only happens when there's a good reason for it, " he says of the current blackout.
The league's decades-old strategy for encouraging people to attend games, the blackout rule, has become counterproductive in some respects.
Even in the offseason we're still football crazy, and some news has leaked out that will adjust how we watch the NFL. Most recently, the Wall Street Journal reports the league has officially relaxed local blackout requirements, which reduces the chance broadcasts are turned off in a team's home area if they don't sell enough tickets.
Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant sustained its worst power outage since a blackout in 2011 sent its reactors spinning out of control.
The blackout was caused by an overheated transformer in the Bio Bio area, the country's minister of energy, Ricardo Rainien, told CNN Chile.
BPA's chief transmission expert, explains that the impetus for this experiment was a big blackout in 1996.
The general consensus on social media appeared to be that Beyonce's high-wattage half-time performance was mostly likely to blame for the blackout.
South Africa's 1994 election was dogged by malpractice: at one point the electoral commission imposed a news blackout on the count amid mutual accusations of cheating by the African National Congress and Inkatha.
America's flawed deregulation has left its grid suffering from serious under-investment, which contributed to the recent blackout: transmission lines were old and overloaded, grid computers failed at critical moments, and so on.
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