<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/898cabf3-995d-4f2d-b20c-23b86e8bd12f/D6D251F2-2F7B-407B-A75E-D2575ABF9311/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_blackouts" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_blackouts" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_blackouts"><P>RIO DE JANEIRO – A massive power failure blacked out <SPAN id="lw_1257907806_0" class="yshortcuts">Brazil</SPAN>'s two largest cities and other parts of Latin America's biggest nation Tuesday night, leaving millions of people in the dark after a huge <SPAN id="lw_1257907806_1" class="yshortcuts">hydroelectric dam</SPAN> suddenly went offline.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_blackouts"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/E74F2A13-FD6E-4481-868C-695F6D39FB57" alt="The Copacabana beach is seen during a blackout in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Nov." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_blackouts">Paraguay was also affected when the <SPAN id="lw_1257907806_2" class="yshortcuts">Itaipu dam</SPAN> straddling the two nations' border stopped producing 17,000 megawatts of power, resulting in outages in <SPAN id="lw_1257907806_3" class="yshortcuts">Rio de Janeiro</SPAN>, <SPAN id="lw_1257907806_4" class="yshortcuts">Sao Paulo</SPAN> and at least several other big Brazilian cities, Brazilian Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_blackouts"><P>The blackouts came three days after CBS's "<SPAN id="lw_1257907806_5" class="yshortcuts">60 Minutes</SPAN>" <SPAN id="lw_1257907806_6" class="yshortcuts">news program</SPAN> reported that several past Brazilian <SPAN id="lw_1257907806_7" class="yshortcuts">power outages</SPAN> were caused by hackers. Brazilian officials had played down the report before the latest outages, and Lobao did not mention it.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_blackouts"><P>The Itaipu dam is the world's second biggest hydroelectric producer, supplying 20 percent of Brazil's electricity. China's Three Gorges dam is the largest.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D6D251F2-2F7B-407B-A75E-D2575ABF9311/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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