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When chosen wisely, rental flats and houses can provide a monthly rental income as well as capital growth for the future. Mistakes can be costly, however, and – to misquote the old saying – if you buy in haste, you may well repent at leisure.
today is National Day Of Prayer 2010, a day people are asked to turn to God in prayer. National Day Of Prayer is being challenged in court, but the event goes on despite the recent controversies.
NFL Star Merlin Olsen died of Mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer often related to asbestos exposure. Olsen was defensive tackle with the Los Angeles Rams, and part of the legendary ‘Fearsome Foursome’ one of NFL’s greatest defensive lines ever back in the 1960s. After his successful Pro Football career, he became equally well known as a broadcaster, television actor and commercial pitchman.
Recently there has been an invasion of colossal squid in the waters of Orange County near Newport Beach, California. They were first caught on the 27th of January. Fishermen in Orange County have since then reported several colossal squid of over 4 feet long weighting up to 60 pounds.
The Cove Movie has won an Oscar in the category Best Documentary Film at the 2010 Oscar Awards.
The Cove is a documentary about the annual killing of dolphins in a National Park in Japan. The most amazing part of the movie was the way it was shot. They used special underwater HD cameras disguised as rocks to shoot the film.
YouTube has made millions of videos better accessible to deaf people, by using speech recognition technology to automatically generate and add captions on video’s hosted on Youtube. Speech recognition technology has been around for over 50 years, and has finally become good enough to be used on a large scale.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of hacking into the email accounts of rivals and journalists. The CEO of the world’s most successful social networking website was accused of at least two breaches of privacy. Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the email accounts of Harvard rivals who accused him of stealing their plans for a social network. He then allegedly tried to sabotage the network.
When Grace Groner passed away at the age of 100, she donated her fortune to Lake Forest College in Illinois. They were astounded to hear from Grace’s attorney and longtime friend, that she had left a $7 million dollar to her Alma Mater. The secret millionaire Grace Groner (aka Amazing Grace) lived her life modestly in a one-bedroom home, decorated with only a few plain pieces furniture and an antique television set.