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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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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.

Buried Alive – Roy Hallums Brings Vividness

Posted by braincontour | Posted in Book | Posted on 31-01-2010

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Roy Hallums’ book “Buried Alive” is pure writing genius. It is like listening to a radio live report from the scene of the kidnapping incident. It is so vivid that every paragraph can even become a short story. From the day he was kidnapped to the day he was rescued and reunited with his family, Hallums is a born storyteller with a gift of clarity.