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This will be Gov. Bill Ritter's first Christmas at the stately Boettcher mansion. First Lady Jeanne Ritter is making this year a multi-themed holiday. A Kwanzaa display features items that the Ritters picked up during their missionary days in Africa. A Hanukkah theme in the dining room features a collection of menorahs and dreidels. A Christmas scene with nativities is in the library. Veterans and the military are celebrated with a tree decorated in red, white and blue flag-inspired ornaments. The main hall is outfitted with a giant Christmas tree and ornaments that commemorate the state and launch the centennial-year celebrations of the residence, which was built in 1908. Lighting inside and outside the mansion will be spectacular. But is it "green" in keeping with the governor's efforts to save energy? Residence manager James Finnerty said, "For the most part, the lights are not LED, but that is something we would like to incorporate in upcoming years." Cadman revving up for '08 Bill Cadman's 2008 campaign for the state Senate is off and running, even though he's a state representative until midnight Dec.
Yahoo apologises for Black Monday fiasco
Yahoo is attempting to placate members of its Small Business Merchant programme after an outage left many sellers unable to process orders on the busiest online shopping day of the year. The programme allows users to set up and maintain online stores and process payments. But problems began at 6am US Pacific time when Yahoo said that systems which power the service went down. As a result, merchants were unable to process orders and users were unable to make purchases. Yahoo had restored the service by 1pm, but transactions remained slow to process. The service was not up to normal speed until 12 hours after the outage. Rich Riley, senior vice president of Yahoo's online channel division, apologised to merchants hit by the outage in a blog posting.
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Magedson won't remove posts. He's not interested in evidence that would offer vindication. But if you're willing to pay, Ed Magedson just might be willing to talk. Magedson guards his privacy maniacally. His business address is a post office box. The house where he lived until recently was owned by one of his limited liability companies and he had to move, he says, when his enemies figured out his location, despite his precautions. Even his car and utilities are registered in a way that renders them untraceable. To Magedson's credit, people only know how hard he's worked to hide because they've tried just as hard to find him. He says they want to kill him. (They say they only want to serve him with lawsuits . . . although they're certainly not above posting information about him on the Internet while they're at it.) But despite his efforts to live off the public-records grid, there's plenty you can know about Ed Magedson without even talking to him: the legal battles, the allegations of extortion, even his parents' death certificates and the paperwork from that old 1970s pot bust.
Marketers Cooking Up Plans for Mobile Ad Blitz
The wireless industry deserves credit for its caution, said Ari Schwartz, a privacy advocate with the Center for Democracy and Technology. Advertising and technology companies are the ones having to first prove to wireless carriers "that they have put in a lot of thought about how to do it in a way that won't raise the creepiness factor," he said. Forrester analyzes the business model of commercial open source CRM in large enterprises. Plus, Info-Tech Research analyzes the spectrum of CRM offerings for the SMB. Download the FREE Forrester and Info-Tech reports. .
Romney's New Groove
Pensacola, Fla. The bad economic outlook might be good news for Mitt Romney, the millionaire venture capitalist who is in a tight race here for the Republican presidential nomination. As voters' worries have shifted away from the war in Iraq and turned to the roiled markets, Mr. Romney, with his fixation on PowerPoint slides and fever lines, has come into his own on the stump just ahead of Tuesday's primary. Armed with a stimulus plan that favors big business, a reputation for hard-line cuts and even a sign that boasts "Economic Turnaround," Mr. Romney has shifted his campaign rhetoric back into his comfort zone. The new focus has put his opponents on the defensive -- but also helped them step up their jabs at the perpetually stiff and rehearsed Mr. Romney. "Gov. Romney is touting his qualifications and his experience and his résumé as a manager," said Arizona Sen.
A £4bn bridge it is - now let's get on with it
On funding, all he would say was that there would be no tolls on the bridge, and further announcements would be made next year.The long-awaited decision comes a year after The Scotsman launched a campaign for an immediate commitment to a new crossing – which was answered within weeks by the previous administration, who announced approval in principle.The new Scottish Government pledged in June that decisions would be taken "in the autumn" on both the type of crossing and "on finance, legislation and governance".The Scottish Liberal Democrats, who were accused by the SNP of dragging their heels on the project when in power a year ago, accused the Nationalists of hypocrisy.Alison McInnes, their transport spokeswoman, said: "It is very concerning that the SNP have failed to answer fundamental questions, most notably on how they plan to pay for the new bridge."They promised answers by the end of the year, and this is another broken promise by the SNP government."There must now be serious doubts about the SNP's ability to deliver this project on time."The Conservatives, who abandoned an almost identical project a decade ago, said much had still to be decided.Murdo Fraser, the Scottish Tories' deputy leader, said: "We have finally got the type of crossing decided, but all the other big questions remain unanswered.
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