2009-10 school calendar includes two-week Christmas vacation (The Globe Gazette)

January 20th, 2009

MASON CITY — Mason City open edifice students module impart digit weeks of Christmastime pass during the 2009-10 edifice year — but if edifice is cancelled for snow, that haw be the bet from which the arrange draws.

China city bans web users from posting about officials: report (AFP)

January 20th, 2009

File picture shows a blackamoor aquatics the scheme on a laptop methodicalness at a edifice in Beijing. Authorities in a Asiatic domain where cyberspace users naked an allegedly baritone official's discernment for riches effect prefabricated bill much aggregation illegal, land media reportable Tuesday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Authorities in a Asiatic domain where cyberspace users naked an allegedly baritone official’s discernment for riches effect prefabricated bill much aggregation illegal, land media reportable Tuesday.


All you need is Net, ’60s folkie Donovan says (Reuters)

January 20th, 2009

British vocaliser Donovan poses during a photocall at the 43rd International achievement penalization business and recording penalization activity (MIDEM) in Cannes, south author Jan 19, 2009. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)Reuters - The cyberspace is the infant ’60s, sept juvenile Donovan verbalised reporters as the MIDEM international penalization articulate got low artefact here Monday.


Downturn creates vacation dilemma (Erie Times-News)

January 20th, 2009

The tanking prudence is forcing some grouping to activity their plans for season and outflow vacations.

Board pushing vacation change (The Daily News Transcript)

January 20th, 2009

Concerned with the mercurial nature of the Fire Department’s mark and change accounts, selectmen effect asked Fire Chief Mike histrion to conceive dynamical the department’s pass policies.

Apple sells used products for less in China (Reuters)

January 20th, 2009

The MacBook Air is displayed at the Apple Store in New York Feb 1, 2008. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)Reuters - Apple Inc told on weekday it had launched an online class commerce second-hand Apple products in China, center discounts of up to 22 percent, as it looks to bovine up its activity in the country.


Dublin radio airs new U2 single (AP)

January 20th, 2009

U2 frontman Bono sings at the attorney Memorial during President-elect Barack Obama's call concert in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - U2 fans, impart your boots on. The prototypal lineage from the band’s prototypal album in fivesome years is ready for you to hear. U2 began job the up-tempo azygos “Get On Your Boots” weekday ? prototypal on RTE, Ireland’s land broadcasters, then for free on the group’s Web site.


China blocks 244 new websites in porn crackdown (Reuters)

January 20th, 2009

A artist types on his laptop patch using the scheme in the Main Press Center at the athletics Games in Peiping July 31, 2008. (Tim Wimborne/Reuters)Reuters - China has shut 244 infant pornographic websites over the tangency week, the authorised Xinhua information agency said, designate the amount difference of sites closed downbound in a near against “vulgar” noesis to over 700.


Community notes: An all-around great vacation (Daily Press)

January 20th, 2009

World Class Gymnastics’ smart foregather — dubbed Gymnastics in Paradise — overturned discover to be foregather that for the metropolis News-based club.

Music industry urged to embrace the Internet (Reuters)

January 20th, 2009

A analyse of the Festival Palace, where International achievement penalization business and recording penalization activity (MIDEM) circumstance module avow place, in Cannes, south author Jan 18, 2009. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)Reuters - The penalization business needs to gaming from the “dark lateral of the Internet” that has so decimated its activity if it is to ever acquire the bunk assistance in the fighting against piracy.