"There was a fault in the overhead network caused by the contacts at the top of the pole coming loose and crashing against each other, " she said.
The Geographic pole is the top of the axis on which the earth spins, the Magnetic pole is where the compass points to, and the Arctic pole is the point on the Arctic Ocean furthest from any land.
With promotion based strictly on seniority, the climb to the top of the greasy pole can take a lifetime.
Just 0.087 seconds separated the top four as the Pole headed McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Red Bull's Mark Webber.
The end result was that nobody knew who was on pole and the top 10 drivers got out of their cars and were swapping times to work out who had actually set the hot lap.
"If you imagine somebody up, say, a telegraph pole at the very top, needing to rewire something, they don't really want to be fiddling with a laptop, " explains Paul Reed, Motorola's mobile computing product manager.
Felipe Massa, who is the worst-placed of the four drivers in the title fight, starts from his third consecutive pole position after snatching top spot from local hero Fernando Alonso by just 0.03 seconds in the dying moments of qualifying on Saturday.
The result moves Kumar Sangakkara's men two points clear of Pakistan and New Zealand at the top of Group F and they remain in pole position for a semi-final spot.
If you curl into a U shape at the top of your leap, as high jumpers and pole vaulters do, you will be able to clear a bar while your center of gravity passes underneath it.
We are governed by a pile of institutions sitting on top of each other, like faces in a totem pole .
In 2008 he made his top level debut at Sunday's venue, taking pole position for that race and finishing second, and following it up with two more poles and two more podium finishes in the subsequent races.
It was Stoner's second pole position this season and the 35th of his top-level motorcycling career as he bids to close the four-point gap on series leader Jorge Lorenzo.
Of course, if I had decided years earlier to just become an expert in health policy, or whatever, I could have started in quickly at the bottom of the media totem pole and risen more or less swiftly toward the top, earning some sort of income instead of piling up debt.
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Patrick said winning a pole position in Kansas in 2005 was one of her top moments as an IndyCar driver.
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But he was soon to discover that possession of a complicated fortune, an asset to a Labour politician during his ascent of the greasy pole, becomes a liability when he is at the top of it.
Stoner, who had started on pole, has pulled level with the unfortunate Lorenzo at the top of the overall standings.
On a large lonely wooden cross on top of a hill in Antarctica, overlooking a route taken to the South Pole, someone inscribed the words "to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield".
Despite these varied routes to the top, the greater triumph for America remains that most groups have found their way up the greasy pole.
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