Wausau has some 38,000 people. Most of them don't know Deb Hadley, but it seems like everyone thinks they know her.

That's what you might expect when your face, or your sons' faces, are plastered on billboards, city buses and television screens. As office manager for Hadley Office Products and the spouse of its owner, Deb Hadley is inextricably linked to its advertisements.

Deserved or not, her reputation also is the result of her role in two controversial periods of Wausau's life.

She began to build her public profile in the summer of 1993, when she and her husband, Mark, joined a group of parents angry about a Wausau School District plan to create partner schools -- which eliminated most of the K-5 neighborhood schools in favor of "paired" schools of kindergarten though second grade, and third through fifth grade.

Ad Authority Inc. Inks Another Deal With Cast Release Ltd: First Touch Text

San Diego, CA based Ad Authority Inc. announces its strategic partnership with Cast Release Ltd. on March 5, 2008. The success of Ad Authority's SMS CRM program for re-kindling customer relationships using text message follow-ups led to a plethora of inquiries about a real time system. This project which was dubbed "First Touch Text" was developed and launched earlier this week and has experienced marked success among the users of the SMS CRM product. First Touch Text allows the first point of contact (or touch) with potential clients to be made via text message when the phone number they provide is a mobile phone number, and it happens in real time as the leads enter the lead management system. .

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-03-26 11:13 GMT: Madrid shares lower midday on profit-taking in blue chips; BME, Inditex gain

MADRID (Thomson Financial) - Share prices were lower in quiet midday trading amid light profit-taking in blue chips like Santander and Telefonica, while BME benefited from an upbeat Citigroup note and Inditex gained ahead of full-year results due Monday.

At 11.44 am, the IBEX-35 index shed 46.7 points to 13,387.50, after trading in a range of 13,338-13,426.

Equities opened lower after a mixed overnight close on Wall Street and losses in Tokyo, and remained in the red over the morning as investors locked in profits amid a lack of fresh leads before further key US housing data this afternoon.

"Trading is particularly dull today," a salesman at a leading Spanish brokerage said.

"Players are waiting for US housing data later today, but the downturn in the US housing market is already priced in, so unless there's a big surprise in the figures we're not expecting a major impact," he noted.

Nigeria: Untold Story of Wema Bank Boardroom Battles

It has all the trappings of a Nolly wood soap opera: wheelingdealings, intrigues, base knuckle power tactics vengeance, justice and more. The settings are varied, but the location is the boardroom of an embattled bank.Firstly, roll the tape and let's introduce the star dramatis personae; Jeremiah Adebisi Omoyeni, SO, until recently, the chief executive of Wema Bank. A master strategist with good networking tentacles in political fields, a tactical boardroom player with his eyes focused on his goals, Omoyeni is quick to say "I am not a professional politician but a professional banker" That may be debatable; you don't get to be a deputy governor of a volatile state like Ekiti by merely being a political by-stander.