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Download Facebook Videos - YouTube Videos How to download Facebook videos? There are many options that you will probably read online when you search these keywords "download Facebook videos." I used to use free video online downloader sites,...

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Filipino Efren Peñaflorida - 2009 CNN Hero of the... A Filipino was declared the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year! His name is Efren Peñaflorida. I watched the short video clip with Peñaflorida tonight as CNN reported the winner during the ceremony at the Kodak...

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Donate in Goodwill Store, Brookings, SD I always make it a point to donate my old (and sometimes new) clothes to the Goodwill store. Goodwill is a thrift shop with a collection of all things used and cheap. Goodwill Store in Brookings, SD...

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River Tale: a Spring, a Well and a Sigh I am re-posting this piece -- one of the longest articles I have written. Would I sigh for more? “Mi pozo parece agua lluvia (My well water tastes like rain water)”, remarked grandma who had...

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Falling for a brown-haired American girl at The Union What's wrong with him? What's with that slight cacophony in the way he moves nowadays? Every day, he senses a lovey-dovey cadence of delight he only felt in the comfort of a swing in the backyard back...

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Win a Grant from Tobacco Media Control Project

Posted by braincontour | Posted in Society | Posted on 05-03-2010

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I almost marked the email below a spam. Coming from a tobacco media and sent to my work email address is not something common to see in my inbox. Regular emails that flood my office account usually come from research collaborators and professors whose email addresses end with dot edu. Had it not been for the subject line that had the words “Invitation to participate…”, I would have not opened nor read the contents.

The Rick Sanchez Stupidity Acts

Posted by braincontour | Posted in People, Politics | Posted on 02-03-2010

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There goes the stupidity of CNN’s Rick Sanchez again! I really dislike the foolish, dumb-acting stunts of Rick Sanchez on his show. Are Sanchez’s viewers kindergartens, that he had to ask questions like, what a 9-meter drop is? Or was his intention to embarrass his guests on live TV?

Facebook – Add Friends and Know Them Well

Posted by braincontour | Posted in Internet | Posted on 01-03-2010

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From just over 100 friends last year, my list of Facebook friends has now reached over 1000. It is amazing to know how everyone seems to own a Facebook account these days. Met someone in a bar? Ask for his/her FB account and you’d be on your way to knowing him or her more. Add all your friends from church. Find your long-lost high school friends and add them in. In a matter of days, you will have a number of followers who will sneak into your every wall post.

When you add someone you have not seen for many years, what do you usually do afterward – say, few seconds after adding?

Benny Hinn Divorces Wife

Posted by braincontour | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 18-02-2010

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Who says Pastors could not get a divorce? Huh! Even the most decorated of pastors, like Benny Hinn, can get one. What a slap on the face for Benny Hinn who preaches about the sacrament of marriage being a lifelong union, ending only with the death of one spouse!

County Health Rankings – Brookings, South Dakota Tops 2010 List

Posted by braincontour | Posted in Places | Posted on 17-02-2010

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Wow, the 2010 County Health Rankings report shows Brookings, South Dakota topping the list on “Health Outcomes” and third on “Health Factors”. This means the Brookings county rated high in most health specific categories:

1. Health Outcomes (how healthy a county is)
- Mortality (death proportions)
- Morbidity (health state)

Happiest Cities in the U.S. – 2010 Well-Being Index

Posted by braincontour | Posted in Society | Posted on 16-02-2010

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Do you live in one of America’s happiest cities? The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index released the results from the interviews with more than 353,000 Americans during 2009, and the happiest city in the U.S. is Boulder, Colorado!

Yeah, not a single city from South Dakota!

Scores were based from these six indexes:

Century Turns: New Fears, New Hopes – Book Review

Posted by braincontour | Posted in Book | Posted on 12-02-2010

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If you are the type of person who loves to survey the arena of politics, history, pop-culture, economics and technology coalesced as one, then the book Century Turns: New Fears, New Hopes by William J. Bennett is for you. The book tackles the decades between 1988 and 2008 that America had gone through and the obstacles the country still has to face in the coming years.

Retarded Sarah Palin’s Retarded Reaction

Posted by braincontour | Posted in Politics | Posted on 07-02-2010

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Ex-Governor Sarah Palin needs to examine her mental capacity. Really. She used to be a governor, but how in the hell she does not even know the meaning of the word ‘retard’ or ‘retarded’?

So when Rush Limbaugh used the word ‘retarded’ it was okay for Sarah Palin, even if Limbaugh intended to hit someone.

When Rahm Emanuel used the word ‘retarded’, Sarah Palin was outraged and went facebooking, asking Obama to fire Rahm.