| Home for Holidays scheduled tonight in downtown M.C.
MASON CITY — Home for the Holidays, sponsored by the Mason City Downtown Association, will be held from 5 to 8 tonight.Families are invited to come visit with Santa and enjoy all the festivities planned in downtown Mason City.The evening begins at 5 p.m. with the lighting of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Tree of Hope in Central Park.Events in Southbridge Mall include cookie decorating and face art, sponsored by the Globe Gazette and Cookies Etc., beginning at 5 p.m. Finger printing, sponsored by the Exchange Club, will be offered from 5:30 to 8 p.m.In Center Court, Charlie Brown Daycare Centers will perform at 5:30 p.m., followed by Ms Nina’s Dance at 6:30 p.m.Horse drawn sleigh rides will be offered from 5:15 to 8 p.m. from the Bus Transit Station, sponsored by First Citizens National Bank.Holiday treats and special guests will be available from 5:15 to 8 p.m.
Guitar great credits men he learned from
Buddy Guy has just about every award a bluesman could have. The five-time Grammy winner received Billboard’s prestigious Century Award in 1993, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, and by his reckoning has won every W.C. Handy award he could.But the 71-year-old musician, who plays Friday night at NIACC, gives the credit to those who went before him — musicians such as Fred McDowell, Son House, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Lightnin’ Slim."The people who I learned everything from should have got ’em before I did," Guy said in a recent interview, adding that he always accepts his awards in their honor."I don’t know if you’d be talking to me if it wasn’t for them, and I don’t think they got anything.""They just played for their good-looking woman and a drink of wine."Born in 1936 on a plantation in Lettsworth, La., Guy said he didn’t know what a guitar was, but fashioned his early instruments out of rubber bands, screen wire and lighter fluid cans."I could hear it.
Kenya: National Branding Campaign Fails to Get Drivers And Funding
Launched as a platform to effectively market the country, it has remained stillborn while other countries like South Africa are realising tangible economic benefits from similar initiatives. "The issue of Brand Kenya is a sad story. What it lacked was a champion inside the Government," says Julius Kipngetich, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Director. .
Union 'is the key to global economy'
BREAKING up the UK would risk Scotland's place in a new world order, Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, said last night. The MP for Edinburgh South West told an audience at Stirling University that Scotland and England are better off together in facing the challenges from a fast-changing global economy. .
PART 1: Background:
Definition - At its heart, �Strategic Exclusion� (SE) is the practice of denial of resources (for the purpose of access, availability, starvation, lock-ins or lock-outs of resources) to one or more party to further one�s self-interests. It is by formed by design, and for purpose. Resources can be customers, distributors/partners, raw materials, technology, law, audience, financing, etc. It works on the principle of �scarcity� of resources � which can be made scarce by design, by nature, or even artificially (very common) In business, SE takes place in a myriad of forms usually in the purpose of competitive strategy.� We see examples of this in all industries in all countries � in Oil&Gas, John D Rockefeller built StandardOil (now known as Exxon) to a monopoly stature by denying the many smaller independent oil drillers of that time period, access to the railroad distribution network (which JDR strategically bought out) to sell and deliver their oil� and consequently forced the many independents to sell their assets/holdings to him at fire-sale prices.
NuUnion Credit Union reinvents the checking account
LANSING � Credit union members know the benefits their credit union can offer that most banks cannot. But one Michigan credit union is providing unprecedented returns with its newest checking account. The account, known as SoSMART� Checking, provides NuUnion members with free ATMs nationwide and an impressive 6 percent interest on balances up to $25,000. "Our members have been telling us they're tired of paying ATM fees and want to earn interest on their free checking account," said Steve Winninger, president and CEO of NuUnion. "And we've been listening. We introduced SoSMART� Checking on Sept. 24 - a free checking account with a premium interest rate and free ATMs nationwide. SoSMART� is a unique product that allows our members to earn high interest while eliminating expensive fees.
Customers lament Abbey's bad habits
Just what is going on at Abbey? Why are so many people complaining about its service? In the past six months, I have received nearly twice as many letters about Abbey as any other banking group. But no senior person at Abbey would answer my questions last week because, the bank says, the chief executive is having dinner with personal finance editors in a fortnight's time. It might answer my questions after that, but not before. This is just the sort of inexcusable delay Abbey's customers have come to expect. Jackie Brown spent three months trying to persuade Abbey to update her address, while Peter Corley waited nine weeks for his £14,500 cash Isa to be transferred to Abbey, which twice lost the transfer form and then the original application form as well. The bank admitted something had gone wrong but could find no systems errors and "no obvious cause".
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