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Friday, April 5, 2013

Empa researchers join Quantis to open new branch in Switzerland

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Contact: Dr. Rainer Zah
rainer.zah@empa.ch
41-787-499-741
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)

Industry cooperation in the field of Life Cycle Assessment

Empa's research activities in the area of LCA have gained a lot of interest and are internationally recognized, especially in the fields of energy, mobility, materials and buildings, as well as in databases management. To further improve industry cooperation and know-how dissemination, Empa and Quantis decided to start a new cooperation. While Empa will focus its activities on research on methodological challenges in LCA, Quantis will, in turn, take over the LCA service activities from Empa. "Empa is very pleased to hand over well-established LCA services to Quantis and looks forward to a fruitful cooperation with Quantis in the future", says Empa CEO, Gian-Luca Bona.

After Lausanne and Bellinzona, a new Quantis branch is opened in Switzerland, which will start its activities on 1st May 2013 at the Empa technology center glaTec in Dbendorf near Zrich. The new branch will be led by Rainer Zah, currently head of the LCA group at Empa's "Technology and Society" laboratory. The team consists of renowned experts in the field of LCA modeling and inventory data. With high complementarity concerning expertise, business sectors and geographic area, the new Quantis branch will focus on LCA services and applied research in the fields of energy, mobility, materials and buildings, as well as life cycle databases, and serve the Swiss German and German markets. "The collaboration with Empa will strengthen the position of Quantis as a recognized global leader that helps organizations move towards sustainability through the life cycle approach", says Yves Loerincik, CEO of Quantis International.

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What is LCA?

LCA is a method to assess environmental impacts along all stages of a product's life from-cradle-to-grave, i.e., from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, to recycling or disposal. For companies, designers, and governments, LCA serves as a decision-making aid for reducing environmental impacts.

About Empa

As an interdisciplinary research and service institute within the ETH Domain, Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, conducts cutting-edge materials and technology research. Empa's R&D activities focus on meeting the requirements of industry and the needs of society, and thus link applications-oriented research to the practical implementation of new ideas.

As a result, Empa is capable of providing its partners with customized services and solutions that not only enhance their innovative edge and competitiveness, but also help to improve the quality of life for the public at large. As part of the ETH Domain, Empa is committed to excellence in all its activities.

About Quantis

Quantis is a leading LCA consulting firm specialized in supporting companies to measure, understand and manage the environmental impacts of their products, services and operations. Quantis has a strong track record in developing new LCA methodologies and applying its knowledge and expertise to support clients in transforming LCA results into decisions, action plans and added value. Quantis is a global company with offices in Switzerland, France, the United States and Canada, and employs over 70 people, amongst which several are internationally renowned experts in the LCA field.

Further Information

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona, CEO, Empa, Tel. +41 58 765 45 00, gian-luca.bona@empa.ch

Dr. Yves Loerincik, CEO, Quantis International, Tel. +41 21 693 91 92, yves.loerincik@quantis-intl.com

Caroline Coquerel, Managing Director, Quantis Lausanne, Tel. +41 21 693 91 92, caroline.coquerel@quantis-intl.com

Dr. Rainer Zah, Managing Director, new branch of Quantis at glaTec, Tel. +41 78 749 97 41, rainer.zah@empa.ch

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Dr. Michael Hagmann, Communications, Empa, Tel. +41 58 765 45 92, redaktion@empa.ch

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Empa researchers join Quantis to open new branch in Switzerland

Public release date: 5-Apr-2013
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Contact: Dr. Rainer Zah
rainer.zah@empa.ch
41-787-499-741
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)

Industry cooperation in the field of Life Cycle Assessment

###

What is LCA?

About Empa

About Quantis

Further Information

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona, CEO, Empa, Tel. +41 58 765 45 00, gian-luca.bona@empa.ch

Dr. Yves Loerincik, CEO, Quantis International, Tel. +41 21 693 91 92, yves.loerincik@quantis-intl.com

Caroline Coquerel, Managing Director, Quantis Lausanne, Tel. +41 21 693 91 92, caroline.coquerel@quantis-intl.com

Dr. Rainer Zah, Managing Director, new branch of Quantis at glaTec, Tel. +41 78 749 97 41, rainer.zah@empa.ch

Media Contact

Dr. Michael Hagmann, Communications, Empa, Tel. +41 58 765 45 92, redaktion@empa.ch

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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Used parachute on Mars flaps in the wind

Apr. 4, 2013 ? Photos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has subsequently changed its shape on the ground.

The images were obtained by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Seven images taken by HiRISE between Aug. 12, 2012, and Jan. 13, 2013, show the used parachute shifting its shape at least twice in response to wind.

The images in the sequence of photos are available online at http://uahirise.org/releases/msl-chute.php and at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA16813 .

Researchers have used HiRISE to study many types of changes on Mars. Its first image of Curiosity's parachute, not included in this series, caught the spacecraft suspended from the chute during descent through the Martian atmosphere.

HiRISE is operated by the University of Arizona, Tucson. The instrument was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project and Curiosity are managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

For more information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been studying Mars from orbit since 2006, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mro .

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New "Arrested Development" season to stream online on May 26

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The anticipated return of cult television series "Arrested Development" will premiere on May 26 with the entire 15-episode new season available to stream online, Netflix said on Thursday, seven years after the show ended on network television.

The Emmy-winning series, which was canceled after three seasons by U.S. network Fox in 2006 because of poor ratings, will be streamed online beginning at 12:01 a.m. PST (03.01 EDT), the Internet subscription service said.

Netflix, which has been adding original shows to its online library of films and television this year, will put the entire series online at once, tapping into the trend of audiences "binge watching" rather than the broadcast television method of weekly episodes.

"Finally my simple wish for the show is coming true: that it be broadcast every second around the clock to every television, computer or mobile device in existence," the show's creator and executive producer Mitch Hurwitz said in a statement.

"Arrested Development" tells the riches-to-rags story of the dysfunctional and scheming Bluth family who are being held together by eldest son Michael (Jason Bateman) after the family patriarch (Jeffrey Tambor) is convicted of fraud.

The series also stars Will Arnett, Portia de Rossi, Michael Cera and David Cross, with guest appearances by Ben Stiller and Liza Minnelli, among others. It is narrated by executive producer and "A Beautiful Mind" director Ron Howard.

"Arrested Development" was a critical darling for its quirky plots and cinema verite style.

Netflix Inc, which entered big-budget original programming with political thriller "House of Cards" starring Kevin Spacey in February, is available in the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland and parts of Latin America, among other areas.

(Reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/arrested-development-season-stream-online-may-26-185928323--finance.html

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Fargo takes action to lessen impact of flooding

FARGO, N.D. (AP) ? The landscape has changed dramatically since the record flooding of the Red River: Hundreds of once-vulnerable homes are now gone and miles of concrete floodwalls and clay levees add new protections as communities on the river's banks brace for it to overflow yet again.

Those changes over the past several years have built a buffer of green space that gives residents on the Minnesota-North Dakota border confidence as they prepare for a fourth major flood in five years ? the worst in 2009.

Having gained plenty of unwanted practice in dealing with floodwaters, Fargo kicked off its annual rite of spring Wednesday when hundreds of junior high school students got out of school to help fill sandbags.

Few residents of Fargo or Moorhead, Minn., just across the river, are complaining that their clear view of the waterway has since been replaced by a wall. For a metropolitan area just four years removed from a record flood that forced thousands to evacuate ? some by hovercraft or helicopter ? such sacrifices now seem a small price to pay for safety.

"A flood wall is reassurance," said Michael Redlinger, Moorhead city administrator. "It's peace of mind. A lot of mental security."

The city and county governments have allocated more than $200 million, mostly in federal funds, to build 25 miles of permanent levees and buy out about 500 homes. Fargo City Commissioner Brad Wimmer said the area has been able to cut its flood fighting efforts in half since 2009, including the number of structures that will need sandbagging.

"We were just learning at that time," Wimmer said Wednesday from Sandbag Central, a city-owned storage building that usually houses garbage trucks. "From there to now, it's night and day. We're way better off."

The National Weather Service is predicting a 50 percent chance of the river reaching 38 feet in Fargo, which is 20 feet above the point of spilling over its banks. Officials estimate 117 homes would need to be sandbagged at that level, which would eclipse the fifth-highest flood on record for the area.

The record flood of 2009 topped out at nearly 41 feet.

The floodwalls, which the city has tried to jazz up with an ornate brick pattern, are a hit with residents, Wimmer said. Darren Dunlop, who has lived near the river in north Fargo for 20 years, calls the massive floodwall that protects his north side neighborhood a beautiful thing, both for their appearance and his peace of mind.

"We're finding that the walls have been an attraction," Wimmer said. "As time goes on, they will become part of the community. They're not a detriment at all."

City engineer Bob Zimmerman called the floodwalls "conspicuous" but said the vegetation-covered levees, mostly made of clay, blend into the landscape and "give a flat city some manmade definition."

The changes have come with heartache. Some neighborhoods that were thriving in 2009 now only have a smattering of homes, surrounded by empty lots where houses were either destroyed or bought out. In at least one case, an entire subdivision is gone. Heritage Hills, which once had 40 homes along the confluence of the Red and Wild Rice rivers south of Fargo, no longer exists.

Kolbjorn and Solvi Rommesmo were the last to leave Heritage Hills, turning out the lights on the neighborhood in 2010 after taking a buyout.

"I drove through there last fall. Everything was gone of course," Kolbjorn Rommesmo said. "We are missing the place out there. The lots were big, there were a lot of trees and it was quiet. But we needed a boat to get out of there."

Rommesmo has moved to a higher part of town where he feels more protected from flooding.

"I think we should be all right," he said. "The city has done a lot of work on flood protection, but I guess you never know."

Fargo has spent about $107 million on flood protection projects since 1997 and Moorhead has committed $88 million since 2009. Cass County, on the North Dakota side, has spent $20 million. Most of it is federal money, though Fargo voters have on two occasions approved sales tax measures to go toward flood protection.

Fargo has been budgeting $100,000 a year to help residents raise their level of flood protection. The program covers all engineering and construction expenses. Applications are approved on a first-come, first-serve basis.

If the 38-foot flood prediction comes close, Moorhead will have only seven homes that need sandbagging, most of them in the central part of the city. That would take 33,000 sandbags. As a comparison, a similar flood before the mitigation efforts would have threatened about 140 homes and required 670,000 sandbags.

Zimmerman said the city didn't have the money to offer the lone residents in harm's way a buyout until a year ago, after a mild winter led to a "non-flood" season.

"The sense of urgency from them probably was very different than it was for some of the earlier buyouts," Zimmerman said. "Maybe this spring might have changed some minds. We want to go back and visit with those folks."

The 10-day campaign to fill 1 million bags for Fargo and Cass County started Wednesday with students filling 15,000 bags in the first hour, with the help of three machines that can pour sand into 12 funnels at a time. The city and county plan to have nearly 2 million bags ready to go by April 13.

"This is probably as neat an operation as I've ever seen in the last 15 years," Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker said Wednesday from Sandbag Central. "What I mean by that, it's so organized. It's nice to see all the activity."

Eighth-grader Matt Veit, among the students who were tying bags and stacking them, said it was hard work but worth it.

"We want to help the community, like Good Samaritans," he said. "I think we'll be OK. People here in Fargo, we tend to do a nice job."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fargo-takes-action-lessen-impact-flooding-210846310.html

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AP Essay: My Cyprus, changed forever

FILE - This April 14, 2005 file photo shows a general view of the Greek Cypriot sector of the Turkish-occupied town of Famagusta in east Cyprus. (AP Photo/Harun Ucar, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Nicosia, Cyprus, 1973: Riding with my parents and two elder siblings in a taxi, the kind of large Mercedes favored in the Middle East. The driver gestures to an alley where you can just make out people behind barricades.

"Turks," he spits derisively.

We keep quiet. We hadn't been brought up to think of any people that way. Later that day, my father tells us that things don't bode well for Cyprus, a place we had been coming to for three summer holidays and that he visited frequently on business over the years.

A year later, war broke out.

My thoughts have turned frequently to Cyprus and its patient, resilient people in recent weeks as the ruinous financial crisis that swept across southern Europe engulfs the tiny Mediterranean island. The angry and worried faces, waiting in ATM lines to withdraw their money, were very familiar to me. Over four decades, to my family, the country became a convoluted relative of sorts.

Famagusta, that most beautiful of ancient port towns (its name in Greek means "hidden in the sand") had been our idyllic destination: a golden beach lined with luxury hotels and a child's swimming pool dream. The aroma of street vendors' charcoal-grilled corn on the cob lingers in my nose.

In 1974, Famagusta was occupied by invading Turkey. There were deaths and disappearances, and thousands of Greek Cypriots lost their homes and businesses. Parts of Famagusta remain neglected to decay even today. The island of Cyprus is now split into the Turkish north and the Greek south.

Within minutes of meeting Cypriots, I usually can tell if they were among the displaced. I get the sense and then I ask, anxious to share memories of that lost paradise.

We never returned to Famagusta, part of an internationally unrecognized republic. But two years after the war, my family purchased a plot of land in the Greek Cypriot territory ? a small place called Coral Bay.

Cyprus was in shell shock; postwar recovery was taking hold only slowly. The capital, Nicosia, was divided by a "green line." The Turkish Cypriot flag was emblazoned on a hill. From the Greek side, you couldn't miss it. Nicosia's airport was now out of bounds and Larnaca's took in the many visitors to the island. I remember the tortuous, hours-long journey on winding single-lane roads, often in the dead of night.

This was one of the many things that would change. Tourism boomed, the national infrastructure modernized and the economy and the island's people began to prosper.

I think back to the accelerated construction as if it were a time-lapse video. Hotels, holiday apartment blocks, shops, supermarkets, restaurants ? build, build, build and then build more.

In Coral Bay, our house now stood proudly. It was named "Samantah," combining the first letters of my family's names. The battles of foreigners owning property abroad were well known to us: haranguing the municipality, chasing after builders, grappling with electricity and water issues.

But you could also just walk out into the garden and pluck a lemon off a tree for evening cocktails. The beach was two minutes' walk. We listened to the BBC World Service ("This is London ...," my family's home at the time) on the veranda as a gentle breeze cut the stifling heat.

We spent wondrous times together there. And of course there were bumps, too.

In 1983, my father, outraged that a restaurant had sold out of Kleftiko, the national dish that he had promised to his guests, declared to the owner we would never return. We didn't.

"Nice move, Dad," my brother, who would later become a successful restaurateur in Manhattan, remarked dryly on the walk home. "Now our dining-out options have been reduced by 50 percent."

The relative unspoiled, sun-kissed nature of a traditional existence began to fade. In its place, hurtling toward us, came a party-town hedonism and a myriad of places blaring, "English Breakfast All Day Here!"

And the price of everything went up and up.

There seemed to be an ongoing national obsession with accumulating wealth as each year passed, though many nations are like this. But in Cyprus, I always sensed the bubble was going to burst.

As I grew older, I began to see another, less savory side. After the fall of the Soviet Union, an avalanche of money poured into Cyprus ? a good amount of it ill-gotten. There were Russian and Georgian extortion rackets and mafia-style hits. We heard whispers of a villa near to ours being used for prostitution.

This is the money, or some of it, that swelled Cypriot bank coffers to $88 billion, which was then followed by catastrophic losses on Greek bonds and the prospect of people having to bail out the state with their own hard-earned savings.

But for us, for many years, still there were the warm people, the lovely beach and the fresh, delicious food. It was still a place for our family to congregate from far-flung places. Whenever there, we felt part of the community.

Characters came and went: the affable Lebanese water ski instructor who just disappeared one summer (drug smuggling, we heard); the kindly and stately family lawyer; the driver cum supermarket and restaurant owner who ran off with a Romanian woman half his age, deserting his family; the German neighbor who suffered through the Allied firebombing of Hamburg as a young girl in World War II and wanted to visit London to see where the Luftwaffe had struck.

My parents retired to the house in Coral Bay. It didn't last very long.

In 1992, my father suffered a fatal heart attack just a year into his retirement. Months later, my brother-in-law fell seriously ill and passed away not long after he, my sister and their young son had made a new life teaching at the international school and living in a house next door that my parents had built for her. Eight years later, my mother fell while dropping fruit off to a Syrian friend. She broke her hip and died two months later.

After that, the visits from my siblings and me became less frequent. It was only a matter of time before we drew the curtain on a significant part of our lives.

We sold the two properties to one of the Island's hotel and real-estate tycoons in 2005, a year after the country joined the EU. A seat at that top table was, for Cyprus, a dream finally realized ? and one that would turn sour.

The Cypriot entrepreneurial spirit became its curse. Not thinking of the future took over. In the end, it was a soft target because it carried that desire to make the easy buck on its sleeve for some to exploit and bad financial decisions were made all around.

My last trip there was in 2006 with my pregnant wife and my sister. I expected to return much sooner, and I have watched intently from afar the successes and tribulations of this beloved relative.

I realize now: Cyprus is in a time of need, and it's high time I went back. I have a son, soon to be 7, the age I was when I first took in the wonders of Aphrodite's island. I have some family history to share with him.

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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Tamer Fakahany is a deputy managing editor of The Associated Press.

Associated Press

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Louisville women to Final Four after 86-78 upset

Louisville's Bria Smith, front, is fouled by Tennessee's Cierra Burdick, back, during the first half of the Oklahoma City regional final in the NCAA women's college basketball tournament in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)

Louisville coach Jeff Walz shouts during the first half against Tennessee in the regional final of the NCAA women's college basketball tournament in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Tennessee center Isabelle Harrison (20) shoots a foul shot in front of guard Kamiko Williams (4) and Louisville guard Shoni Schimmel (23) during the first half of the regional final in the NCAA women's college basketball tournament in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Tennessee guard Kamiko Williams (4) has the ball knocked away by Louisville guard Bria Smith, right, as she drives to the basket in front of teammate Jasmine Jones and Louisville center Sheronne Vails, left, in the first half of the regional final in the NCAA women's college basketball tournament in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Louisville guard Shoni Schimmel, center, shoots between Tennessee's Taber Spani, left, and Isabelle Harrison, right, during the first half of the Oklahoma City regional final in the NCAA women's college basketball tournament in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? One mammoth upset wasn't enough for Shoni Schimmel and plucky Louisville. Going through two of the sport's powers, the Cardinals are Final Four bound.

Schimmel scored 24 points and Louisville beat second-seeded Tennessee 86-78 Tuesday night to earn the school's second trip to the Final Four.

Two nights after taking down Brittney Griner and defending national champion Baylor, the fifth-seeded Cardinals (28-8) built a 20-point lead and then withstood a second-half comeback by the powerhouse Lady Vols (27-8) before celebrating another big victory.

When it was over, the Cardinals huddled at center court and celebrated. Tennessee headed home with a third straight loss in the regional finals, failing to make the Final Four for a fifth straight year.

"We ruined the entire party," Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. "We're the ugly ducklings that ruined the party. No one gave us a chance and we shocked everybody. It's a journey and we're going to continue."

Taber Spani led the Lady Vols with 20 points, and Meighan Simmons and Kamiko Williams chipped in 12 apiece.

Louisville joined the school's men's team in the Final Four, marking the 10th time that a program had both teams make it that far. Only Connecticut has won both titles in the same season, in 2004 ? the last time the women's champion was crowned in New Orleans.

The Cardinals became only the second No. 5 seed to reach the national semifinals, joining Southwest Missouri State's 2001 team that featured guard Jackie Stiles, the all-time leading scorer in NCAA history. Only seven teams outside of the top four seeds have ever made it to the Final Four since the NCAA tournament started in 1982.

No team seeded higher than fourth has ever won a game at the Final Four.

But the seemingly impossible hasn't stopped this group of Cardinals yet.

First, they took down Griner and her Baylor team that had lost just once in 75 games. Then, it was the eight-time national champion Lady Volunteers.

"No one wanted to see us beat Baylor and Tennessee and we did both of those and now we're going to the Final Four," Schimmel said.

Next up is a Sunday showdown in New Orleans against California, the Spokane regional champion.

The Cardinals' only other Final Four trip was in 2009, ending in a loss to Big East rival Connecticut in the championship game.

Louisville rode a hefty rebounding advantage and another solid 3-point shooting outing ? especially when compared to Tennessee's 0 for 9 start ? to take a 49-29 edge 90 seconds after halftime following back-to-back 3s from Antonita Slaughter and Schimmel. That same tandem combined for 12 of the Cardinals' 16 treys, matching the NCAA tournament record, in an epic upset of Baylor.

Spani finally broke Tennessee's 3-point drought right after that, and the Lady Vols were able to chip away at the 20-point deficit. Their full-court pressure, which wasn't tight enough to prevent over-the-top passes for layup s in the first half, started to be effective.

Tennessee gave up just one basket over an 8-minute span, and Williams' short jumper at the end of an 18-6 rally got the Lady Vols as close as 68-65 with 4:28 remaining.

Spani missed a 3-pointer from the right wing that would have tied it on the next possession, and Tennesee's comeback fizzled after that.

Schimmel had a pair of driving layups and sister Jude Schimmel hit a 3-poitner and set up Slaughter for a reverse layup in a 9-3 burst for Louisville. Even when Meighan Simmons, who started out 1 for 22 in the two games in Oklahoma City, hit three late 3-pointers, it wasn't enough for Tennessee.

The Cardinals shouted "Louisville!" at the logo in the middle of the court in celebration. Spani, a senior, dropped to her knees in tears at the final buzzer.

Louisville came out firing from long range again and connected four times in first seven attempts while building an early 21-11 advantage. Then, it was a sticky 1-3-1 zone defense that propelled Louisville on an 8-0 run, keeping the Lady Vols scoreless for a 5? minute stretch, to expand the lead out to 31-14 after Sherrone Vails' putback with 3:51 to go until halftime.

Just like in the previous round, when a 19-point lead disappeared before Monique Reid's winning free throws in the final seconds, the Cardinals had to hang on for dear life at the end.

Associated Press

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Drunk Idiot Dangles Upside Down from Power Cables

In the list of things you probably should never experience in your life, even if you're sozzled to oblivion, dangling upside down from an active power cable is probably near the top. This very, very drunk man, however, obviously thinks differently. He climbed up a pole and hung upside down a high-voltage power cable for 15 minutes. Luckily for him (unluckily for human intelligence) he managed to survive without any major injuries. More »

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