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- Renowned Indian guru Śrī Satya Sai Baba dies aged 84
- Sherpa mountaineer Nawang Gombu, first to summit Mount Everest twice, dies
- Tornadoes damage hundreds of Missouri homes, force closure of airport
- U.S. Coast Guard investigation finds 'poor safety culture' contributed to Deepwater Horizon disaster
- 'Apple's data is dirtiest,' says Greenpeace
| Renowned Indian guru Śrī Satya Sai Baba dies aged 84 Posted: Monday, April 25, 2011 Śrī Satya Sai Baba, one of India's most prominent spiritual leaders and revered by millions of followers worldwide, died Sunday in a Puttaparthi hospital, following a cardiac arrest. He was 84 and had been in hospital since last month, suffering from kidney failure and respiratory problems. Followers and devotees of Śrī Baba considered him to be the manifestation of a "living God" on Earth and believed he had powers of magic, such as being able to pull things from out of thin air. More... |
| Sherpa mountaineer Nawang Gombu, first to summit Mount Everest twice, dies Posted: Sunday, April 24, 2011 Sherpa mountaineer Nawang Gombu, 79, the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest twice, died Sunday morning at his home in Darjeeling, India, located at the base of the Himalayas, his family reported. Gombu was born in Tibet but later moved with his family to a small village in Nepal near Mount Everest. More... |
| Tornadoes damage hundreds of Missouri homes, force closure of airport Posted: Sunday, April 24, 2011 An EF4 tornado struck near St. Louis, Missouri Friday night, forcing the closure of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and damaging over 2,700 buildings in St. Louis County. The National Weather Service also confirmed that an EF1 tornado touched down in neighboring St. Charles County and an EF2 touched down in Pontoon Beach, Illinois. The city of Bridgeton, in North St. Louis County, was hit by the EF4 tornado. According to the National Weather Service, it was the most powerful tornado to touch down in the St. Louis region since 1967, with winds ranging from 166 and 200 miles (267 and 322 kilometres) per hour. Aftereffects of that tornado were also reported in Maryland Heights, Missouri. More... |
| U.S. Coast Guard investigation finds 'poor safety culture' contributed to Deepwater Horizon disaster Posted: Sunday, April 24, 2011
An investigation by the United States Coast Guard has concluded the largest oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry was partly the result of a "poor safety culture" aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The April 2010 explosion aboard the rig, which is located in the Gulf of Mexico, triggered a disaster that led to widespread environmental damage. More... |
| 'Apple's data is dirtiest,' says Greenpeace Posted: Sunday, April 24, 2011 In a report on cloud computing issued this week, the environmental group Greenpeace rated ten top Internet companies, including Apple, Google, Twitter and Amazon, on several factors such as each company's wiliness to be transparent by providing information on its energy sources and the energy efficiency of its data centers. In the report entitled "How Dirty is your Data", Apple, while receiving good marks for transparency, rated at the bottom for energy efficiency, primarily because its huge, new data center in North Carolina, called iDataCenter, relies largely on coal. Although Apple claimed its California operations used cleaner energy than that produced by most grids, iDataCenter has an estimated energy demand three times Apple's current use, significantly increasing Apple's environmental footprint. As Apple increases the online products it delivers from its iTunes platform, it will enlarge its cloud computing operations further. More... |
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