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I really wanted to get back to playing electric guitar and being in a band, and regaining that feeling that you get, that sense of camaraderie that goes along with it.

In 2005, we added 3,700 new electric customers and 1,600 new gas customers.

In addition to the severe electric reliability problem in the Tri-Lakes area, we believe that the proposed club and resort may also be a factor in the decision to build the new power line.

Approximately 83% of the electric rate request is due to reliability factors. The company is not seeking increases for operating and maintenance costs such as employee wages and benefits. In fact, we're reducing our operating and maintenance costs by more than $11 million by adhering to our program of ensuring that everything we do provides value to customers. The program is working -- higher rates notwithstanding.

A new nuclear unit would also mean greater diversity of fuel, and that means more stable electric rates for our 2.7 million electricity customers.

And the fact is, that can affect the gaming industry more than other sectors. Gaming is one group the threat of terrorism can really hurt. General Electric will still be going if there's another attack, but Las Vegas would be affected as if it were a hurricane like Katrina.

Anyone who was there for those series can tell you what an electric atmosphere it was. The fans are right on top of the action. It's fun, it's loud, it's exciting and it's an intimidating place for opponents to play. We plan to capture that kind of environment again.

Anyway, it was at the Electric Cowboy and there were about 180 of us there and they gave us all a number. I had to sing a cappella and that always makes me really nervous. I thought my mouth was going to get dry or I was going to crack a note. I really thought, 'I'm fixin' to ruin this deal right here.' But I sang 30 seconds of Dwight Yoakam's cover of the Elvis Presley song 'Little Sister' and I made it through it. Then they pulled me off to the side and asked me to come back the next day. They only asked 18 of us to come back, and that was pretty good.

The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.

Then at high school I got an electric guitar and a book with some photos of Eddie Van Halen in it and my grades went downhill.

The big reason people are still buying the racks is that there are certain items that you just don't put through the electric dryer. Another is that in the winter the rack can act as a humidifier if you place wet clothes on the top and allow them to dry until the next day.

As a hitter, you hate to see that electric slide move. He brings a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of energy.

The implications of Hurricane Katrina are clearly not positive for the Entergy enterprise, as the company's operations were the hardest hit of any electric utility system,

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.

The crowd was a major factor in this game. Our guys were ready to play this game in an empty gym, but it was an electric atmosphere. It made a difference.

The forward production growth guidance of 5% is very admirable for a super oil major. Its operating profit surpasses General Electric and Microsoft.

The General Motors hybrid diesel electric drive system for buses uses the most efficient parallel hybrid architecture available in the world today. If the U.S. had only 1,000 GM hybrid powered buses operating in major cities, the cumulative savings would be more than 1.5 million gallons of fuel annually.

The earliest admonition we had about the computer was to quit using the phrase electric brain. The folks in Philadelphia tried to convince us that the Univac didn't have a brain, and that whatever we fed into it would determine what we got out of it.

The economic expansion in Hawaii over the last five or six years has put a lot of pressure on infrastructure and is driving costs up. Interim rate relief is a step in the right direction, but more probably will be needed as Hawaiian Electric continues to add infrastructure to keep up with expanding needs.

The growth that the state is experiencing requires us to pursue increased investment. Given our obligation to serve, there isn't another option. Electric rates are still an excellent value and will remain so even if the company gets the full effect of the increase. Rates on average will still be lower than they were 20 years ago.

All in all, this helps to secure the long-term financial stability of the gas and electric utilities in Eagle Mountain,

The electric and gas industries could easily collapse if they don't put a plan in place for staffing, retention, recruitment, and training.

The electric barrier is crude but it's the best thing we have now. The irony is the barrier was first proposed to keep round gobies (another fish invader in the Great Lakes) from colonizing the Mississippi River watershed, but by the time the barrier was built they had already passed it. Now the motivation is to keep the carp from coming from the other direction.

The electric bill was too high to begin with and they can't pay. That has to be put back on the agenda and (the surcharge) taken off.

The electric field in this picture from discrete Faraday lines of force, which are to be treated as physical things, like strings.

The electric guitar is not my instrument. Really, the nylon strings is where I have my voice. It's like asking the piano player why he doesn't play the organ.

The electric industry is being challenged like it has never been before and this combination better prepares us to meet that challenge.

the emission and reception of signals by Marconi by means of electric oscillations is nothing new. In America, the famous engineer Nikola Tesla carried the same experiments in 1893.

A heating element is essentially a toy with an electric light bulb. Toy kitchen ranges, for example, use these, and shouldn't be played with by kids under 8.

The fires in the vicinity of our field operational areas are out. At this time, the critical path item for bringing production back on-line appears to be the restoration of electric service in the area.

For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

The kid has electric stuff. Let's see how he does here in the Nation.

The idea for this act originated from an act I did while traveling with the circus group Electric Blue Monkey Theater. We traveled all over the U.S. in a bus that ran on vegetable oil.

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

These are meters and not numbers of people. Some industry customers have more electric meters. We also serve water to Edwardsville, but not electricity.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current...

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

It's the Japanese automakers that are leap years forward in electric motor technology versus the American automakers. That's why Detroit is interested in what we have to offer, because it is a way for them to catch up really quickly.

The number of gasoline- electric hybrid engines is growing but is still a very small share of the auto market and has limited impact.

It's like an electric shock going down your spine.

It's not tournament time yet, but it will be a tournament atmosphere. It will be a great experience for our kids to play in an electric and intense environment.

It's a philosophical difference that Ray and I have about whether the Palo Verde rewards should have gone back to the ratepayer or should it be applied to the city to be used to lower electric costs in providing taxpayer services,

It's all acoustic. The electric sounding riffs I played on an acoustic, ... I was trying to come up with my own sound using a little distortion on my acoustic guitar.

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.

That may have been the most electric crowd that I've seen since I've been here and even as a player.

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

They are technology freaks and not the kind of guys who seek publicity, but a Vanity Fair shoot in Cannes gives them a broader appeal. We drink beer in the Electric and play pool at the Elbow Room.

They have actively poured their money into blue-chip companies here such as Honda, Toyota, Matsushita Electric and Canon.

There's a lot of gas in storage on the East Coast (after a mild winter). But electric generation does have an impact.

It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a lot of ways, but it's not going to have a big dent in oil consumption in the country, or CO2 emissions.

It's a tremendous environment for a home team, and for college basketball, period. The fans are so well-educated, and they're a team that's resilient. It also energizes the visiting team, so what you get is an electric atmosphere.

It was electric out there. Games like this ... The last month should be pretty sweet.

It's energy. It's not just gasoline. People are looking at their gas and electric bills. Talk about stunned silence.

You have to weigh the increased cost of electric service every month versus being without power for three weeks after a hurricane.

We welcome the opportunity to provide the commission with additional information to better understand the current financial impacts affecting Detroit Edison. We're implementing the performance excellence process to minimize the need for future rate increases, meet future electric capacity needs in Michigan.

We continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi, ... The devastation from Hurricane Katrina is tremendous.

It's actually a city owned property and is actually adjacent to the city electric where this individual works.

It was the beginnings of what would later become electric blues and eventually become rock and roll.

It was the most difficult thing in the world, when I went to tell the chairman. It was like walking to the electric chair. That's the way it felt.

This was the first time I've seen writers at 'World News Tonight' banging away on electric typewriters.

We were one of the very first people way back in '69 to do fully acoustic and electric sets within the same show.

It's an individual decision based on the fact that you will be paying for what electric you use.

It's been an electric atmosphere. You would never expect to see the crowds that large, especially with the (hot) weather. I think this ballclub has piqued the interest of Atlanta. People want to come out and see what all the hubbub is about.

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.

I consider the electric guitar to be like a drum with strings. It became the drum of the Baby Boom generation. And the drum has always been the center of the tribe, a new electronic tribe.

If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

I don't listen to Nirvana plugged anymore. I think there's a whole group of people who have semi-forgotten that Nirvana used electric guitars because of the 'Unplugged' album. It's so great.

Before anyone else, Macquarie saw the potential of the U.S. market. They have the most robust model of highways as a new utility that can be an investor-owned utility like gas and electric utilities.

Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.

The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.

Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there.

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.

Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.

I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

The market moved up and down during the day jointly with the U.S. stocks. Electric utilities are on the rise as investors think telecoms have reached levels where they become expensive and relocate money into electrics.

The living room actually turned out more elegant than we planned. Dan built bookcases on either side of the fireplace, added trim to the mantel and installed an electric fireplace.

Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.

He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.

New York feels vibrant It feels electric to walk the streets at night.

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.

The one factor that you can't find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles.

The Music was like Electric Sugar

What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.