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Students can now download podcasts, videos and other lessons directly from iTunes through a new Texas Education iTunes U channel aimed at providing free, supplementary coursework that can be accessed anywhere.Gov. Rick Perry announced the channel’s launch last week. Through the site, teachers can upload additional material from their classes to help students understand new concepts or do more research in a specific subject area. Other state agencies and non-profit organizations can also post videos to the site.Users can download the content the same way music and videos are accessed from the popular online store. ......................................................................................................... $4.99 iCAM an iPhone app helped a TX couple watch their home getting robbed while they were away in CT. “We just checked on our phones and I’ve got a few web cams set up and we could see it unfolding as the guys were leaving,” homeowner Vince Hunter who alerted the police right away. The robbers are on video and yet to be arrested. ......................................................................................................... OOPS! A case of mistaken identity and miscommunication led to an Amber Alert last week after a man picked up the wrong 5-yearold boy from Maple Lawn Elementary. Roberto Paniagua, had permission to take a friend’s son named Edwin from school, but left with the wrong child. He went into the school and told administrators at about 12:30 p.m. that he was picking up the child of a friend. But when he asked for the boy, the school turned over the wrong child, Edwin Villarreal, police said. ......................................................................................................... GOT NEWS TO SHARE ABOUT YOUR ORGANIZATION? Keep the community updated & connected. Contact us at 214843-1593 or email to ads@myCrescent.com.
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BAG IT: YOUR LIFE TOO PLASTIC? At Studio Movie Grill 4721 West Park Blvd, Plano. 8/30/2010 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Is a commentary from Live Green in Plano representatives immediately follow the film.Tickets: $6 per person. ......................................................................................................... DIVINE CONSIGN SALE: 2000 E. Spring Creek Parkway On 8/31/2010 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM. Divine Consign Children’s and Maternity Sale, specializing in the highest quality gently worn children’s and maternity clothing, toys, books, games, DVDs, baby equipment and furniture. Admission: $2/person: Contact Tina Teutsch at 214-513-2838 or visit www.divineconsign.net ......................................................................................................... LIST YOUR EVENT HERE FOR ONLY $19.00 CALL (214) 843.1593 OR E: ADS@MYCRESCENT.COM ......................................................................................................... SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: September 03, 2010 @ 8:00 PM. At Eisemann Center, Richardson, TX. Web: http://discovery.cor.gov/ Public/IS ........................................................................................................ HEALTHCARE REFORM: A DIALOGUE ON HOW IT WILL IMPACT YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS: On Sep 2nd at 7:30 AM Venue: Davidson Auditorium - UT Dallas School of Management, Richardson, TX. ......................................................................................................... TX PURE COMPOST SALE: At Custer Road Facility 9901 Custer Road on 08/29/2010: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM. Texas Pure Compost is on SALE the entire month of August...$16 per cubic yard. Visit the website at www.texaspureproducts.com to order bulk material online. Delivery is also available. For more details call 972-769-4150.
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* Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost. -Napoleon Bonaparte * News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. -Lord Northcliffe * Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell every day, some are like that one station with the foreign language; you don’t understand a word of it but you listen and watch. * For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. -Gloria Borger
Wisdom of life...
* Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. -Samuel Butler * Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. -Mark Twain * The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -James Baldwin * The least of learning is done in the classrooms. -Thomas Merton * Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. -Fran Lebowitz * If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day. -John A. Wheeler * Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -John Kenneth Galbraith * The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. -Jane Wagner
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ON MASSIVE FLOODING IN PAKISTAN
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> Ousted USDA federal official Shirley Sherrod turned down an offer to return full time to the Department of Agriculture, but said she would continue to speak out about issues of racism and discrimination. ......................................................................................................... > New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that to deny Muslims the right to build a mosque near the World Trade Center site would undermine America’s values and damage its image. “We would feed the false impressions that some Americans have about Muslims. We would hand a valuable propaganda tool to terrorist recruiters, who spread the fallacy that America is at war with Islam.” ......................................................................................................... > President Barack Obama’s stimulus package may have created or saved as many as 3.3 million jobs last quarter and lowered the unemployment rate by as much as 1.8 percentage points, the Congressional Budget Office said. ......................................................................................................... > Massachussetts Attorney General Martha Coakley fired off a letter to Craiglist, calling on the Web site to yank its “adult services” section as state attorneys general nationwide also stepped up the pressure. Coakey said the “harmful role” of the site’s sex ads contrasts “sharply” with its purported community-driven mission. ......................................................................................................... > The Obama administration said that it would appeal a court ruling challenging the legality of President’s rules governing human embryonic stem cell research, as the head of the National Institutes of Health said the decision would most likely force the cancellation of dozens of experiments in diseases ranging from diabetes to Parkinson’s.
> “We cannot talk about starvation yet but I think we can talk about millions of people being hungry,” Maurizio Giuliano, the U.N. humanitarian spokesman. ......................................................................................................... > “An area the size of Italy is still submerged in floodwaters and an estimated one million homes have been destroyed or damaged. Tens of thousands continue to flee their homes for the highlands as flooding still threaten villages with destruction. Disease and malnutrition are the biggest threats to the flood victims and medical attention is hard to come by, as at least 200 hospitals and clinics have been destroyed.” -Islamic Relief ......................................................................................................... > “One piece of good news that we have heard came from Steve Claborne, country director of the Mercy Corps relief organization. He said that donations from overseas, which at first looked fairly meager, are picking up as global concern about Pakistan mounts.” -Newshour NPR ......................................................................................................... > “Climate change with all its severity and unpredictability has become a reality for 170 million Pakistanis. The present situation in Pakistan reconfirms our extreme vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change.” -Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan’s foreign minister, told the UN General Assembly. ......................................................................................................... > “The flood takes everything leaves nothing to survivors—most places even cell phones do not work. If more help is not brought soon we will face a disaster!” Rafi N. from Chicago-based Zakat Foundation.
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