The following are items of interest about Jefferson City area businesses and business people.

Andrew Beshuk joined the staff at Wallstreet Group as director of operations. He will oversee the service and sales operations. Beshuk has experience in pension plan design and administration and also does personal financial counseling with individuals.

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Cash-flow problems at the family business

Q. I have recently purchased a family business from my uncle and father. The business is experiencing some cash-flow problems and I might not be able to sustain the agreed-upon note payments to them. How can I address this issue?

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Pak biz community welcomes SC ruling on Musharraf

Pakistan’s business community has welcomed the Supreme Courts ruling allowing President Pervez Musharraf to seek a second term in uniform, and urged the Opposition parties and lawyers to respect the judgement. Contrary to the intense divisive debate among other segments of the Pakistani society, the business community has given a positive response to the apex courts verdict hoping it would …

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The Daily American’s Spotlight on Business: Southern Illinois Bank

The Daily American staff will celebrate the American entrepreneurial spirit by regularly seeking to highlight one West Frankfort establishment in our ‘Spotlight on Business’ profile.

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Problems With Business Journalism

The majority of Americans are wage earners. They neither have their own businesses nor help run businesses. Their wages have been more or less stagnant for two decades while the cost of living has risen relentlessly. Now their jobs are being exported and their unions broken, and yet the business section of their newspaper doesn’t interest them as much as, say, sports or obituaries.

Something is wrong with this picture, something verging on hoax. We need to reexamine the history and function of business news, whether it’s the business section of a newspaper or the business segment of a telecast or even publications given over wholly to business.

As newspapers grew from muckraking and often scurrilous weeklies to staid metropolitan and regional dailies in the 19th Century it was thought that their readers would be primarily affluent and literate upper-class citizens, decision-makers. But as the country expanded westward a middle class was created, and this newly affluent and educated middle class was interested in money matters. But it was assumed, wrongly that money matters would never rate high on reader interest indices. As we discussed in the last segment of this series, that’s not true. Disasters and money rank Number One and Number Two among reader preferences. Read more

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LATEST: Lawyers in Scotland given reform warning

Changes to the legal profession in Scotland will not “blindly” follow English changes, justice secretary Kenny MacAskill told lawyers today. But he told delegates at a Law Society conference in Edinburgh, that it must embrace fresh business thinking.

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Legal review ‘won’t mimic England’

A shake-up of the legal profession will not see Scotland “blindly” follow English changes, justice secretary Kenny MacAskill has told lawyers. But he told delegates at a Law Society conference in Edinburgh, that it must embrace fresh business thinking.

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Women In Business

Women are increasingly traveling by themselves for business or pleasure. And while their reasons for traveling are similar to their male counterparts, women traveling alone have very different concerns.

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FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, FREESE AND NICHOLS, DONALD HAACK DIAMONDS RECEIVE 2007 AMERCIAN BUSINESS ETHICS AWARDS

The Foundation for Financial Service Professionals this week announced the recipients of the 2007 American Business Ethics Awards (ABEA). The recipients will be honored at a dinner on September 26th at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure in advance of the Financial Service Forum being held here by the Society of Financial Service Professionals….

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Drop election spending bill – Law Society

The New Zealand Law Society says the Government’s new election spending legislation cannot be “patched up” and should be canned.

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Cancer society calls on P.E.I. to take the lead on smoking

P.E.I. could be doing more to reduce smoking rates, says a senior analyst with the Canadian Cancer Society during a visit to the Island.

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Historical society calendars recall past in the future

For the 12th year, the Onalaska Area Historical Society has created a calendar featuring glimpses of the city?s past.

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BUSINESS Stress-relief milk to sell for Y5,000 per bottle

TOKYO ? Dairy company Nakazawa Foods on Thursday announced the launch of a super-premium milk for stressed-out adults, priced at 5,000 yen for a 900-milliliter bottle. “Adult Milk,” which goes on sale in October, is aimed at “adults who live in a stressful society,” Nakazawa said in a statement.

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Big Ideas and Big Business in Latin America

Greetings, sir. I am pleased to take this chance to send our formal thanks for the delivery of the first edition of the economic magazine TEN and to congratulate you for the precision and quality of your publication. Genuine knowledge is scarce in this “information” society.

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Poetry Society In Turmoil

“The board of the 97-year-old Poetry Society of America, whose members have included many of the most august names in verse, has been rocked by a string of resignations and accusations of McCarthyism, conservatism and simple bad management.

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HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL HONORS FIVE OUTSTANDING GRADUATES

BOSTON – At a special ceremony today before some 900 MBA students, faculty, and staff, Harvard Business School Dean Jay Light conferred the School’s highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award , on five outstanding graduates whose lives and careers epitomize the School’s mission to “educate leaders who make a difference in the world.”

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Resignations Rock the Poetry Society of America

Five members of the board of the Poetry Society of America have stepped down from their positions over the past few months, including the most recent, president William Louis-Dreyfus, the New York Times reported.

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Computerworld Names Recipients of the 2007 “Best Practices in Business Intelligence” Awards Program

Computerworld, the “Voice of IT Management,” announced last night the Honorees of its 2007 “Best Practices in Business Intelligence” Awards Program during a Gala Evening and awards ceremony at Computerworld’s Business Intelligence Perspectives Conference.

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ONI Medical Systems, Inc.’s Peter Roemer named Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

WILMINGTON, Mass.—-Peter B. Roemer, PhD, and co-founder of ONI Medical Systems, Inc., was named a Fellow of the prestigious International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine at the Society’s 16th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition in Berlin, Germany.

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Local businesspeople for 9/27/2007

To publish news of your busi ness, send information to Business Editor, The York Dispatch, 205 N. George St., P.O. Box 2807, York 17405. AWARDS William Greenawalt of The Glatfelter Agency was recently recognized for professional leadership and advanced knowledge by the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors (CIC), a national insurance professional organization.

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Poetry Prize Sets Off Resignations at Society

The cloistered community of American poetry has, in recent months, become a little less like Yeats?s Land of Faery, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue, and a little more like Allen Ginsberg?s ?Howl.?

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Education, business top picks among FSU students

Business administration and education are the most popular majors at Frostburg State University.In 2006, out of 4,252 undergraduate students, 592 were business administration majors; 207 majored in early childhood/elementary education; and 191 were elementary/middle school education majors.

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City University selects SAP as its business software cornerstone

London’s City University has selected SAP ERP 2005 as the platform to run the organisation?s applications on. City selected SAP as the vehicle to drive its business forward and meet its 2012 strategic targets.

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East Africa: EPAs – Traders, Business Council Warn On Agreement

As the deadline for East African Community (EAC) members state to conclude the controversial Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the European Union (EU) draws close, voices of opposition from civil society get louder, while traders worry.

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Noteworthy: AMC Entertainment CEO to be honored

Peter Brown, chief executive officer of AMC Entertainment, will be honored Thursday at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Dinner of Champions. See Business Calendar, D47.

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Paul Arnold, Senior Scientist, to Present at the American Vacuum Society’s 54th International …

LONGMONT, Colo., Sept. 19 — Brooks Automation, Inc. (NASDAQ:BRKS) announced today that Mr. Paul Arnold, Senior Scientist and American Vacuum Society Fellow, will present a paper and provide an in-depth technical discussion during the American Vacuum Society’s 54th International Symposium & Exhibition. His primary focus will be on the theory, design and implementation of heat-loss vacuum gauges …

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CPA society seeks to build interest in the profession

“Businesses can’t grow without more CPAs.” That might be a mantra for Penny Gold, CEO of the Kentucky Society for Certified Public Accountants.

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probing Chinese multinationals, culture, society, wealth, finance, globalization, jobs

explore what is really inside Chinese society, culture, investment, banking, stock market, labor, and politics. Is China to alter global map? Talk to a leading strategist George Zhibin Gu.

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Cramped quarters are history for L.B. society

Local: Historical Society moves to its spacious new home. LONG BEACH – The history of Long Beach just moved to Bixby Knolls. After being cramped in the interim home on the 12th floor of 110 Pine Ave., the Historical Society of Long Beach moved this weekend to Bixby Knolls, at 4260 Atlantic Ave.

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Humane society ready for Abbotsford?s ?challenge?

The Vancouver Humane Society is telling cities that are against caged hens to come out of their shells in light of a ?challenge? from the City of Abbotsford.

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