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A Charleston council member seeking to find out how many Kanawha County students transferred to magnet schools out of their school districts has filed suit against the Kanawha County Board of Education.
Harry Deitzler, a Charleston attorney, has sued the school system, alleging the school board didn't provide him with information he requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
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SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- Natus Medical Incorporated (Nasdaq:BABY) today announced the first two installations of its Neometrics Internet Newborn Screenin...
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WE love our libraries. The city of Los Angeles has a phenomenal library system, with beautifully built and rebuilt branches, excellent public service programs and an efficient book transfer system that puts a wealth of information at your fingertips in a matter of days. That's why it's so hard to say no to Measure L - the measure on the March 8 ballot that would increase funding for the city's public library. The measure would reverse the budget cuts that have slashed the book-buying fund, cut 300 librarians and clerks and closed most branches two days a week.
But here's the problem: Measure L is not an answer to the city's budget crisis. In fact, it's the type of ballot box budgeting that ultimately makes it more difficult for city leaders to make wise financial decisions. That's why t...
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Most credit unions price loans and shares to mimic their competitors, institutions that have different strategies, goals, risk tolerances and cost structures. Increasingly, however, CUs wishing to create a winning competitive advantage use matched-term . is an internal management information system and methodology designed to allocate net interest margin between funds users and fund providers. FTP is a rigorous measurement and pricing method based on the pretense that all funds are brought and sold in an open market. Financial instrument by financial instrument, each source of funds and each use of funds is valued at the time of origination. This valuation is accomplished by assigning each financial instrument as associated transfer rate from...
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As part of the overall management information and control system, a system handles the problem of charging net funds users and crediting net funds providers at the profit center, product and customer levels. Properly utilized, a transfer pricing system motivates profitable pricing actions, allows comparable performance evaluation of funds users and providers, and supports asset/liability management, among its other uses and objectives. There are three methods available to perform transfer pricing with variations thereon that provide the flexibility for use by all sizes of banks. The single pool method is the simplest and the least effective of the three. The multiple pool method is better in that it is more reflective of market reality and more likely to result in...
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Identity theft has been a feature of financial markets for as long as alternatives have existed to cash transactions. But identity theft has recently occurred on a much larger scale. Data breaches often involve the apparent loss or acknowledged theft of the personal identifying information of thousands-or millions-of people. Identity theft poses risks, not only to individuals, but to the integrity and efficiency of the payment system-the policies, procedures, and technology that transfer information for authenticating and settling payments among participants. Identity theft can cause a loss of confidence in the security of certain payment methods and an unwillingness to use them. Markets can cease operating or switch to less efficient payment methods. Either represents a loss of efficie...
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.... This information is increasingly important for students and institu... using the Jenzabar Retention Management System 3.0 since 2008. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] . The sys...
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A financial institution's net interest margin is the result of product pricing and portfolio structure decisions involving multiple functional profit centers. Funds transfer pricing (FTP) is a management information system that establishes the value of funds gathered or deployed for the purpose of measuring net interest income contribution at the transaction level. Charges are levied against financial assets and credits allotted to funding liabilities so as to mirror a record's repricing and cash flow attributes. Matched-term transfer pricing is widely regarded as the most conceptually pure approach to running FTP. A unique charge or credit rate is assigned to each record as of its origination date on the basis of four characteristics: repricing tenor, repricing spread, contractual cash...
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Preservation of digital content into the future will rely on the ability of institutions to provide robust system infrastructures that leverage the use of distributed and shared services and tools. The academic, nonprofit, and government entities that make up the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) partner network have been working toward an architecture that can provide for reliable redundant geographically dispersed copies of their digital content. The NDIIPP program has conducted a set of initiatives that have enabled partners to better understand the requirements for effective collection interchange. The NDIIPP program partnered with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to determine the feasibility of data transmission and storage utili...
... and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) data transfer activities, an NDIIPP partner shipped two hard dri...