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Flex and Flash development companies are gaining momentum as businesses look for innovative ways to engage website visitors. We address this growing demand for intuitive and animated content by providing flash development services. We use the flash technology for making flash sites, presentations, banners, animation intros and applications. To cater the animation needs we have experts capable of creating dynamic flash content for different websites. We can build online stores, multi-player games and numerous applications providing a complete control of the images, text and other content on the site.
We respond to our client's needs by careful analysis of requirement. Doing this enables us to provide cost-effective and quality solutions.
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Flash Player includes a virtual machine called the Action Script Virtual Machine (AVM) for scripting interactivity at run-time, support for video, mp3-based audio, and bitmap graphics.
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I've been compelled to excel in many phases of the housing industry. I've considered myself a public servant in the people business. I became fascinated with engineering and became a building inspector early on. I found assisting the public was easy for me and I moved to property code and rental property inspections to assist both the renter and the property owner. I moved into the urban planning arena and ended up on the "dump heap", literally, I ended my government career as a Recycling Program Manager! With this vast experience and always have considered myself in the people business, I decided real estate would be the next logical leap. As a population, people generally stay put on an average of 7 years. Here in the DC area, it's a lot less than that. Some manage to reside in the same home for many, many years. If I could sell a client's home and put them in their dream home, if I could have relationships all around the country and pass by putting them "in good hands" as All State says with professionals I have met here, wouldn't that be a fantastic and a dream come true. And, in turn, because what "you do one by one" comes back to you "two by two" as my Pop used to always tell me to keep me on the straight and narrow, when put into theory, I will soar in this business beyond all imagination.
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WARREN - City Council is looking to give its clerk a $170.53 per month raise, retroactive to Jan. 1.
They will be discussing an ordinance increasing Brenda Smith's monthly pay from $3,677.85 to $3,848.38 per month in 2014 during Monday's finance committee meeting. The ordinance will increase her salary to $3,906.11 per month in 2015.
Council's finance committee chairman Eddie Colbert said council members decided to address Smith's salary because she is not part of any of the bargaining units in which council has been voting to provide 1.5 percent annual increases through 2015.
Council also is expected discuss a contract for the police department's ranking officers union, sometimes referred to as the police gold union.
Similar to the contracts of other unions that council voted to approve in its last meeting, the police ranking officers will receive the same percentage wage increases and some will be able to participate in a health insurance program that will require them to pay premiums.
"Our clerk has not had a raise since I led the effort to freeze elected officials' pay in 2008," Councilman Alford Novak said.
Council has both a clerk and an assistant clerk position in its office. However, it has not had an assistant clerk since its former clerk, Darla Neugebauer, retired in 2011, after working for the city for 19 years. Smith previously had worked under Neugebauer as the council's assistant clerk.
Smith was laid off in 2009 from the position as a result of financial woes then facing the city.
"She is essentially doing the work of two people," Colbert said.
Colbert said this increase will establish the pay rate for the council clerk that is comparable to the pay rate of the executive secretary in the mayor's office.
Colbert added although she is not part of any of the unions, she will pay the increased healthcare contributions that other city employees will pay.
"Giving her an increase makes logical sense," Colbert said.
Greg Bartholomew, D-4th ward, said Smith does as much as any other secretary in the city.
"She is essentially on an island by herself because she works in council's office in the administration building," he said. "We believe all of the secretaries in the city should be on the same pay scale."
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My mom told me they go through an erection cycle every 90 minutes when they are very little. It does help loosen the ole forskin .
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That rate sounds about right for my son. Some are half-hearted attempts, others are full-blown foreskin rippers! . Like I mentioned above, he loves to push them down his hand and make them going boi-oi-oing around like a spring. It makes me laugh so hard.
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At 12:28am today MPD officers responded to an abandoned building located about ¼ mile off Molloy Lane in reference to the discovery of a deceased person. When officers arrived they confirmed the report and spoke to the complainant who stated that he had gone to the building to check on a homeless friend who he had not been in contact with for several weeks. When he arrived at the building he discovered his friend deceased.
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BOCA RATON, FL (August 18, 2011) – Florida Atlantic University's department of housing and residential life, a part of the Division of Student Affairs, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for phase one of the Innovation Village Apartments, a student residential complex, today on its Boca Raton campus. These apartments were marketed exclusively to FAU's upper division undergraduate and graduate students for occupancy at the start of the fall semester.
"The completion of Innovation Village Apartments brings us closer to transforming the Boca Raton campus into a traditional university campus," said Dr. Charles Brown, senior vice president of student affairs. "This will create a new excitement and enthusiasm for our student, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the University. The new housing facilities, football stadium, recreation and fitness center and alumni center will become a new living-learning and social center for the FAU family."
Phase one of the Innovation Village Apartments includes the construction of two apartment buildings, totaling 489,000 square feet and providing 1,216 beds for upper-division and graduate students. Phase one's accelerated construction began in March 2010, with the first students moving in late July 2011.
The complex consists of seven- and eight-story buildings, and features a mix of two- and four-bedroom, two-bathroom, fully-furnished apartments. The apartments include kitchens with Energy Star appliances, Comcast TV and access to high-speed internet. Some apartments also include laundry appliances.
The apartment complex features a lush courtyard and green spaces, an outdoor pool, sand volleyball court, BBQ grills and outdoor seating. Other amenities within the complex include a fitness center, convenience store, computer lab, smart technology conference rooms and multipurpose meeting areas.
The Innovation Village Apartments are on track to qualify for silver level certification in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system of the U.S. Green Building Council.
The Innovation Village Apartments were developed by a joint venture of Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions and Capstone Development Corporation. They were designed by PGAL (Pierce Goodwin Alexander & Linville) Architects and constructed by Balfour Beatty Construction. Balfour Beatty Capital invested $3.4 million in tax-exempt bonds that finance the project.
A joint venture of Capstone On-Campus Management and Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions, led by Capstone On-Campus Management, will oversee with FAU the Innovation Village Apartments, as well as the existing student housing facilities on FAU's Boca Raton campus. FAU is taking primary responsibility for leasing, marketing, student programming and residential life, while the joint venture companies are primarily responsible for budgeting and physical operations.
The Innovation Village Apartments serve as the second phase of FAU's Innovation Village project. Already a part of Innovation Village are the Marleen and Harold Forkas Alumni Center and the student recreation/fitness center. Also a part of Innovation Village is a $70 million, 30,000-seat stadium that is expected to open on Saturday, October 15.
-FAU-Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. In commemoration of its origin, FAU is celebrating its 50th anniversary throughout 2011. Today, the University serves more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students on seven campuses and sites. FAU's world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering & Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.


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Each year thousands of animals are surrendered to local Humane Society shelters in Michigan. These Humane Society shelters rely solely on donations to sustain their operations, making the need for essential pet supplies substantial.
To aid these animals in need, Rainbow Child Care Center, a leading early childhood education provider, is introducing its Kids for Canines program. Rainbow is teaming up with humane societies across the state, including the Humane Society of West Michigan locally, to collect essential pet supplies for dogs waiting to be placed in their loving forever homes.
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Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development's (MDARD) State Veterinarian Dr. James Averill announced the Michigan Companion Animal Welfare Fund check-off will fund projects totaling over $155,500 for 26 registered shelters in 2015.
The Michigan Animal Welfare fund was established under Public Act 132 of 2007 as a tax check-off to support animal shelters statewide. This year's awards will go to the spaying and neutering of animals, fund registration fees for anti-cruelty training conferences, and help cover costs for protecting and caring for Michigan animals subjected to cruelty or neglect.
"Thanks to the generous support of Michiganders, local shelters will be able to train more staff on anti-cruelty, care for animals looking for their forever home, and conduct spay and neutering programs in their communities," said Averill.
ALPINE TOWNSHIP, Mich.—Alpine Township's rules about residential farm animals will remain unchanged for now.
Last week, the planning commission decided to keep its livestock-to-land ratio rule the same. The ordinance came under question after Michael and Jamie Velting sent a letter to the township, asking for a change so they can raise more chickens to produce enough eggs for their family of seven. The couple said based on the current ordinance, which allows only one farm animal per acre of property, they can only raise two chickens. The Veltings said they do not understand how the space, housing and upkeep for two chickens can compare to larger livestock, like horses and cows; that's why they were asking the township to increase the number of chickens allowed on residential property.
Planning Director Sue Becker says it's unclear if or when the issue will come up again, but it's not on the planning commission's agenda for next month.
ALPINE TOWNSHIP, Mich.—The Alpine Township Planning Commission Thursday night will consider changing its rules when it comes to allowing farm animals in residential areas.
In a letter sent to the township, Michael and Jamie Velting are calling for a change to the township ordinance so they can raise more chickens to produce enough eggs for their family of seven. The couple says based on the current ordinance, which allows only one farm animal per acre of property, they can only raise two chickens. The Veltings say they do not understand how the space, housing and upkeep for two chickens can compare to larger livestock, like horses and cows; that's why the couple is asking the township to raise the ratio of chickens to property size.
The planning commission will take up the issue in a work session during Thursday's meeting, which begins at 7:30 p.m.
Make a difference on Wednesday, October 22 for the precious cats of Crash's Landing by visiting one of 14 different Pizza Hut's.
Print the flier from Crash Landing & Sid's Sanctuary web site. Present the filier to one of 14 Pizza Hut locations from 11am – 11pm for Dine-in, Carry-out or Delivery to get 20% of your bill donated to Crash's Landing and Sanctuary for their assistance with stray cats.
Crash's Landing & Big Sid's Sanctuary invites the community to participate in this worthy cause.
Print a flier from Crash's Landing & Big Sid's Sanctuary website below. On Wednesday, September 24 from 11am to 11pm the public is invited to present the coupon to any one of the 14 Pizza Hut locations and 20% of their total bill will be donated to Crash's Landing & Big Sid's Sanctuary. This is included for Dine-in, Carry out or Delivery.
The Flier has the list & addresses of the 14 participating Pizza Hut locations on the North & South side.
Visit http://www.crashslanding.org for the flier & print the coupon.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.-- Crash's Landing & Big Sid's Sanctuary invite the community to help rescued cats Wednesday, Aug. 27 by picking up a pizza.
Print a flyer from Crash's Landing's website and present it to employees at any of the 14 participating Pizza Hut locations Wednesday to donate 20 percent of your total bill to Crash's Landing & Big Sid's Sanctuary. The benefit runs from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Aug. 27 and includes dine-in, carry out or delivery orders.
The flyer has the list and addresses of the 14 participating Pizza Hut locations in the Grand Rapids area.
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12 Months of ZekeMolly Thornberg
Well folks, how much I have loved spending the last 12 months sharing the up's and down's of raising our baby Zeke. Zeke turns a year in just a few days and I will be transition from raising a baby to raising a toddler, so what better place to blog than at Toddler Times!
Before saying an official good-bye *sniff* *sniff*, here is how much a baby grows in a year.
Here is Zeke, birth to now:
A Zeke is Born 1 of 13Born August 3, 2011, this little boy changed our lives forever. You can read his birth story here.
Month 1 2 of 13Oh sweet boy, no colic - just a night owl. This mom can't complain as you never really cry.
Month 2 3 of 13This boy is all smiles.
Month 3 4 of 13Laid back and finally sleeping.
Month 4 5 of 13This boy is as jolly as jolly gets.
Month 5 6 of 13In month 5 he decided to sit up!
Month 6 7 of 13Hello 6 months! Hello solids!
Month 7 8 of 13During month 7, Zeke hit the ground crawling.
Month 8 9 of 13Our sweet boy is growing too quick! Time to lower the crib!
Month 9 10 of 13Look mom, I learned to clap!
Month 10 11 of 13A spitting image of his dad, this boy melts my heart daily.
Month 11 12 of 13In month 11, he thought about walking and mastered the art of standing without holding on to anything. Mommy isn't liking this!
Month 12 13 of 13Almost a year, how time has flown. We love you buddy
Thanks for following along and I hope to see you at Toddler Times or on my personal blog Digital Mom Blog.
Molly's Other Babbles:
- 15 Amazing Playrooms
- 20 Weird and Interesting Facts About Babies
- Best Summer Baby Pins on Pinterest
- Mom Walks in On Grandma Breastfeeding Baby
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Currently securing the fourth spot of this NHL season, Boston Bruins have been doing a great job in going against their rival teams. The famous ice hockey team had recently battled it out against New York Rangers, which is currently in the sixth place. The thrilling match between the two teams went in overtime by which Boston Bruins won with a 3-2 score. Thus, Bruins made it to take the first game of the Eastern Conference semifinals bout series. Now, Boston's ice hockey team needs their fans more than ever to support them in Game 2. The team expects NY Rangers to make a big comeback to tie the series and eventually become the Eastern Conference winners. For sure, Boston fans would not like that to happen, especially when the Game 2 will be held at Madison Square Garden, New York.
The game of the semifinals series was full of surprising come backs from both teams. New York Rangers exerted a splendid effort to save the 48 shot attempts of the opposing team. Although the Rangers' goal post defense was sharp and solid, Brad Marchand made an astonishing two-on-one rush shot during the overtime to seal Bruins' win. The spark was first plugged by Torey Krug during the third period, in which he made a come back goal that really made the Bruins' crowd come alive. The goal sent the match in overtime and the momentum was on Boston Bruins side. The next period made everyone fired up and tensed, a good time to test the mental toughness of both teams. In the end, Marchand was able to score the winning goal with only 4:20 left in the overtime. So, people can really expect to watch a brawling yet competitive Game 2 of the semifinals series on Thursday next week.
Boston Bruins pride themselves on their winning tradition throughout the team's history, which dates back to 1924. The team has six Stanley Cup championships under its belt, which makes them the second most of any NHL team and fourth most of all-time. With that, ice hockey fans are sure of getting satisfied yet again with the team's soon-to-be finals appearance should they beat NY Rangers in the upcoming games. Boston Bruins know the importance of winning the second match, so they will definitely start strong so as to devastate the opponent early on the game. In this way, NY Rangers would find it hard to make a come back and let the finals ticket slip away from them.
Boston Bruins fans look forward for another heroic performance by Torey Krug and Brad Marchand. Sure these two players would expect a tight defense against them combined with the stellar goal keeping skills of Henrik Lundqvist. Boston Bruins just need to make sure to take care of their every possession to prevent unforced errors that NY Rangers might be able to capitalize this time. Some people say that if only the Rangers were able to keep up with Bruins, they could have won the game. So, Bruins have to make sure that they're all wrong over again.
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After sinking to some truly bottom-of-the-barrel prices, shares of chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) have recovered nicely so far in 2013 on the strength of the company's ongoing turnaround plan. The company has embraced the mobile future and is closer than ever to gaining a presence in the increasingly mobile future. But despite this positivity, the company does remain depressingly dependent on the PC market. So between the two, what's an investor to make of the situation? In this video, Fool tech and telecom analyst Andrew Tonner breaks down both the positive and negative arguments for Intel today.
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South Surrey Casino: Council Plays its Hand
A decision was finally made after a series of emotional late-night meetings about the fate of the South Surrey casino.
It was a subject that divided opinion to such an extent that Surrey Mayor Diane Watts was forced into casting the deciding vote.
We'd like to hear your views on what effects you think this could have on Surrey's economy and its real estate market.
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THERE'S A MYSTERIOUS HUM, AN almost junglelike chatter, emanating from room 208 of the University of Missouri at Kansas City's Royall Hall, but to Linda Collier's ears it's sweet music. And why not? It's just the 12 members of her UMKC debate squad practicing tongue-twisting drills to jack up their speaking speed. "People say it sounds like everything from buzzing insects to a group of monks chanting," she says with a smile.
But for Collier, 46, a former general-practice lawyer who is now the team's coach, it is also the sound of success. This, after all, is the final morning of a mentally and physically rigorous preseason minicamp, an idea she borrowed nine years ago from pro football's Kansas City Chiefs to whip her debaters into championship form. And it works. Just last spring her team beat out the likes of Harvard, Northwestern and Cornell to become the first ever to capture the national championship for best overall record in both the Cross Examination Debate Association and the National Debate Tournament. Now they're back to defend their titles.
So for five days before school starts, her debaters research debate subjects, then advance arguments pro and con at rates up to 450 words per minute—roughly 100 words faster than they'll speak in competition—-at times with a pencil in clenched jaws to force them to enunciate more clearly. Then come 24 hours of survivalist games and nature walks at a remote camp. "We're not robots," says assistant coach Myron King, 23, a former squad member. "The work ethic sets us apart."
Surprisingly, in 1986, the year Collier, a UMKC alumna, was approached to fill the part-time job of reviving the school's defunct debate program, there was nothing to indicate that her squads would be anything but also-rans. For one thing, Collier, who at the time was busy with her burgeoning law practice, had never before coached debate. For another, UMKC had scrapped its squad in the 70s during a budget crunch, making it difficult to recruit high school debaters. Even so, UMKC finished 47th out of 250 in their first year and took home an award for best new collegiate debate team. "I've always been hypercompetitive," says Collier of her determination to succeed. But also nurturing. "We call her Mama Roo," says King. (The school's mascot is a kangaroo.)
By Thanksgiving, Collier, who lives with her second husband, public relations executive Michael DeMent, 42, in suburban Leawood, Kans., decided that "students were the people part that I was missing in the practice of law." The next year she gave up her career to coach and teach at UMKC full-time. "Most people thought I was nuts," she says. Not her husband, though, who saw her spirits immediately brighten. "It was the difference between night and day," he says.
And for both Collier and her debaters, it was total commitment. This school year the squad expects to sacrifice extended weekends (which means assignments to make up), September through March, to take part in tournaments. While the team's $12-per-person-per-day budget on the road and long-standing No Fun rule—which prohibits partying as long as the squad stays in play in a competition—don't exactly add up to a freewheeling social life, most students seem to savor the experience. UMKC senior Jenny Barker, 21, says, "It's given me a lot more confidence and self-esteem."
Collier can relate. Growing up in tiny Iola, Kans., the daughter of an auto-parts store owner and his wife, she recalls trying out for the lead in every high school play—and getting it. "Competing against other people for roles attracted me to drama," she says, and she gets a similar rush from leading her troops into battle. For those who care—and she does, immensely—collegiate tournaments, usually eight preliminary rounds followed by four or five runoffs among the finalists, can be as emotionally charged as a high-stakes basketball game. "It's a roller-coaster ride for the kids and the coaching staff," she says.
Defending their titles won't make matters any easier, but Collier can't imagine finishing anywhere but first. "I remember childhood incidents when I felt devastated when someone beat me in a race," she says. "I hated it. I don't like to lose."
MARY HARRISON in Kansas City
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By selecting, supplying and constantly updating its high quality selection of contemporary European furniture and lighting, Viaduct strives to provide a unique resource for architects, designers and private clients. Viaduct is the sole agent for the leading European companies Driade, e15, Maarten Van Severen, MDF Italia, Montis and xO, but has the capacity to source products by other sought-after brands and designers.
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FAIRFIELD, Alabama -- The Fairfield City Schools have begun a major capital improvement initiative as part of a recently adopted five-year strategic plan.
The district is renovating or making additions to some of its school buildings, enhancing the technology available to students and faculty, and improving student transportation.
The Fairfield Board of Education approved this plan -- as recommended by Superintendent Dr. Walter Gonsoulin Jr. -- at its July 2013 meeting, according to a recent news release from the district.
Most of the money to implement these initiatives will come from the City of Fairfield's share of a one-cent sales tax adopted by Jefferson County in 2005 and designated for schools.
The district is embarking on several construction projects, some of which were discussed when Gonsoulin hosted a series of groundbreaking ceremonies July 15 at Fairfield High Preparatory School, C.J. Donald Elementary School and Glen Oaks Elementary.
The additions and renovations will cost about $13 million, Gonsoulin said following the ceremony at Fairfield High.
Fairfield High -- where about $10.7 million will be spent -- will get a fine arts building, an athletic field house, two new entrances, a larger cafeteria, distance learning facilities and a center for professional development.
The high school will also be given some cosmetic work to give it more "curb appeal," according to Gonsoulin. "We are giving it a facelift and making it more inviting, and at all our schools," he said.
The architects are the Birmingham firm of TurnerBatson. The general contractor is the Argo Company.
C.J. Donald Elementary School and Glen Oaks Elementary School will both get some cosmetic work, additions to their entrances and renovations to the cafeterias. The architects are Williams and Associates of Birmingham. The general contractor is the Battle Miller Company. The project cost for the two schools will be a little over $2 million.
Gonsoulin said July 15 said that the renovations of each of the elementary schools will also include new administrative offices and distance learning labs.
Robinson Elementary School will see enhancements to its existing canopy to protect students from inclement weather.
As far as system-wide improvements, the district will buy 8 new school buses and hire additional drivers at a cost of $340,000.
All classrooms will be provided with Wi-Fi access at a cost of $700,000.
Teachers will receive Apple iPad tablet computers as part of the district's technology initiative at a cost of $170,000 for 240 devices.
The ambitious series of renovation projects is the product of discussions held last summer between the superintendent, the board and the facilities board, Gounsoulin said at the groundbreaking.
"We looked at all of our buildings," he said. "We decided that we wanted to make them more inviting. So that was the initial thing, giving them some curb appeal. The second thing, we did a comprehensive study of all of our needs for academics, athletics and school culture. And that's how we came up with what we needed."
On the academic front, Gounsoulin said that the Fairfield City Schools are moving toward an "academy concept." They will begin using the concept in their elementary schools but eventually expand the model to grades K-12.
The Fairfield schools will establish a business/finance academy, an engineering academy and a health sciences academy.
The concept is based on data regarding the careers that are the most promising in coming years for graduates of schools in Fairfield and surrounding communities, according to Gounsoulin.
In addition to undergoing some renovations, C.J. Donald Elementary School will receive $120,000 from the State of Alabama Department of Education to establish and operate a pre-kindergarten program for the 2013-2014 school year.
The program at Donald Elementary will be part of Alabama's First Class program, which is administered by the state Office of School Readiness.
For more news from Fairfield, go to www.al.com/local/fairfield.


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A Behavioral Approach to Stock Pricing
Jayash Paudel
Colorado College
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April 5, 2010
Colorado College Working Paper No. 2010-01
Recent literature in behavioral finance has contradicted the notion of efficiency of markets. Greater emphasis on how psychological biases influence both the behavior of investors and asset prices has led to a strong debate among proponents of behavioral finance and neoclassical finance. This has created the need to study how psychology affects financial decisions in households, markets and organizations. This study conducts a pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) model using the fixed effects estimator to investigate the linkage between investor sentiment and stock prices for 35 firms belonging to three different industries over a time period of 56 years, from 1950 to 2005. The findings suggest that investor sentiment does not significantly affect the stock prices in this sample.
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going to go primarily for low and very low householders in san francisco. that has always been the programmatic focus because you can leverage funding. we live in a high income market and that is exactly why we have an affordable sector in this city. when it comes it recreating redevelopment, that's a fallacy. it's about recognizing that redevelopment allowed a certain portion of money to be used for redevelopment. it's not about recreating redevelopment, in fact that's a closed chapter in history. lastly the idea we are reducing the mixed income housing is also a sort of fallacy. there is a purpose to providing an incentive for developers to do what's called mixed income housing, providing some of their units are affordable to mixed income
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households. most developers do not do that and this is an incentive for them to do it. this is providing a set of programs that are funded providing all the way for folks who were formerly homeless to folks who are middle income to be and stay in san francisco. >> any final comments, starchild. >> it sounds like peter is saying on one hand, well, no, it won't subsidize middle income people then he's saying there is a range all the way from middle income people all the way up to -- he doesn't say what the top range is. there's a guy named jim reid who is a contractor here he built himself in his own back yard a single unit house that he built for $12,000, very small, designed for one person, getting somebody off the street, like 10 foot by 10 foot but it had plumbing,
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electricity, storage, everything someone would need to live a simple existence. 12,000, how much is it going to cost to build these, half a million dollars? they are not really affordable. they're not going to help those most in need of housing as we can see by the continued presence of the homeless on the streets of san francisco. this is a measure designed to capture revenue like the redevelopment agency did. >> thank you both very much for sharing your thoughts and insights. we hope this discussion was informative. for more information on this and other ballot measures in this year's election, please visit the san francisco league of women voters web site at sfvotes.org and remember early voting is available at city hall monday through friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm if you don't vote
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early , be sure to vote on november 6. thank you. . >> hi, i'm richard janning, a board member of the league of women voters. along with the league and sf gof tv, i'm here to discuss proposition d, a ballot measure that will be before the voters on november 6. the mayor, sheriff and district attorney are elected in november of the same year. the city attorney and treasurer are elected in november of a different year. proposition d is a charter amendment that would change the election cycle for city attorney and treasurer so that these officers would be elected at the same time as the mayor, sheriff and district attorney beginning in 2015.
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i'm here with district 8 supervisor scott weiner, and dr. scott fauker, an opponent of proposition d >> let's start with you, supervisor. thanks for having me. proposition d is a good government measure that will increase voter turnout in our elections for city attorney and treasurer, two very important offices, and will also save the city 4.2 million dollars every 4 years. right now we elect our city attorney and treasurer in a very, very low turnout odd year election where they are the only two offices on the ballot. and turnout is always extremely low in that election. and it costs us over $4 million dollars to hold that election. proposition d would move the city attorney and treasurer elections to be on the same ballot as the mayor, which is a
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much myer turn jut election, so more people would be voting for city attorney and treasurer and every time we don't hold that very low turnout odd year election separately for city attorney and treasurer, we'll save 4.2 million dollars. prop d was put on the ballot unanimously by the board of supervisors and it's been endorsed overwhelmingly by both the democratic and republican party. >> dr. faulkner, do you think this is a good idea. >> it has several problems. the original theory is the charter of 1932 was to stagger elections so people would pay more attention to each office, in other words, elect a couple offices each time and do it on an annual basis. this has been modified with various charter amendments but the new charter but the other way theoretically you have more people involved, but in practice when you have those 3-page ballots printed on
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either side, offices get lost. things like city attorney and city treasurer will get lost in the shuffle. the big problem is city government, making sure the people actually pay attention. we have had a problem for a long time with san francisco and dysfunctional san francisco. that's depending on other city issues that are up, the coalition to san francisco neighborhoods is going against them. we have a city government that's very out of touch in many ways and we're, frankly, annual elections would be very wise to keep the people paying attention it what's happened. we have very strong developer interest, strong lobbyist influence, and very little public interest. things get sidelined and they wonder why things suddenly get opposed
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like the park bond which is being heavily opposeopposed. >> thank you. supervisor, do you believe having the elections all at one time is better for the electorate or does it get lost when you have so many positions up for election? >> since he did raise the issue of the parks bond, we're not here for that. the parks bond has very overwhelming support. going back to prop d, there's a balance to be struck. i agree if we only had, if we elected everything from president to dog catcher all on 1 ticket at some point it gets to be too much, but if you spread everything out too much, we could have separate elections for like two offices here, two offices there and have multiple elections every year. yes, that would give more air time to each individual election but no one would vote and you'd have extremely low turn out elections. so for the city attorney-treasurer elections at issue here, even though they have higher prominence in their
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stand alone odd year election, when only 15, 20 percent, maybe 25 percent in a good year, are actually voting in that election, what's the point? more prominence but no one's actually voting for it. a bad turnout for a mayoral election is better than a good turnout for city attorney-treasurer stand alone election. so combining those elections gives a bad balance in terms of increasing voter participation and improving our budget situation. >> thank you. dr. faulkner, if we don't have good voter turnout for the odd year for the city treasurer position, why not combine it with the rest? >> as i said, annual elections at least keep people paying attention. the history of san francisco, which is not a good one, we have had a lot of corruption over the years, russ baldwin, the roof ring, the
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history of san francisco is pretty open. we have had a tremendous amount of developer influence at city hall, a tremendous amount of lobbying, the people are pushed out of it. we need more public participation. originally odd elections were scheduled for the mayor's race, we do not schedule it with the president for that reason. with the first repeal of district elections the people who did the first repeal suddenly moved it over to presidential and gubenatorial elections and changed the pattern. >> dr. faulkner, excuse me for a second. i'm trying to get back to the point here. if we don't feel there's sufficient voter turnout in the treasurer cycle, why not put it with the
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all the rest. >> first of all we usually have other measures up at the same time including ballot measures, bonds and all the rest. usually those annual elections are important. often they are combined with stake wide elections anyway. the 4 million he is talking about is an illusion because we frequently have special elections for the state as well. that's a very persistent thing under schwarzenegger and a lot of people. >> supervisor, we have a little time left and i would like you to conclude and give your opinion why you think we should be voting for this. >> in 2001 we elected city attorney and treasurer in an election that had i think something like 12 or 13 percent turnout. these are two very, very important positions, we should maximize turnout. i think it makes perfect sense to elect these positions with the mayor. i can't tell you how many people after i proposed this at the board of supervisors, paepl on the board, off the board, came up to me and said why
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didn't anyone think of this before, it makes so much sense. it will save us money, it will mean more people voting for city attorney and treasurer and if that's not democracy, i don't know what is. there's a reason why this is getting such broad support and i think it deserves the voters' support. >> thank you. and dr. faulkner, would you please summarize why you believe people should be voting against this measure? >> originally it was all odd year elections for city government. the main focus was to have a lot of elections spread out so people would pay attention. that was the idea of the 1932 charter. it is good in the sense given the history of san francisco and, frankly, a lot of governmental problems we had historically, getting people to pay attention to city government has been very important. we had 1901 to 1907 a group called roof ring, they described the 18 supervisors then on the board as, quote, so
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corrupt they would eat the paint off the walls. that's the reason why we want people to pay attention to their city government. frankly, new england city governments are the small ones and tall hall government is the best of all. we can't do that. but we can give people is exposure to city government, it avoids a lot of problems. we have had a lot of mistakes. (inaudible) was not built when they put in the underground, that caused umpty million dollars to correct. >> we hope this discussion was informative. for more information on this and other ballot measures in this year's election, please visit the san francisco league of women voters at sfvotes.org.
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remember, early voting is available at city hall monday through friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm if you don't vote early, be sure hi, i'm richard janning, board member of the league of women voters. along with the league and sf gof tv, i'm here to discuss proposition e the city requires businesses it pay a flat 1.5 percent tax on payroll cost for work performed in the city. small businesses with less than 250,000 dollars in payroll costs are exempt from the tax. proposition e would create a new city business tax based on gross receipts rather than payroll costs. under the new system, the tax on payroll cost
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would be eliminated or reduced. businesses with gross receipts of less than 1 million dollars annually will be exempt from the gross receipts tax. the gross receipts tax rate would vary depending on the type of business and its annual gross receipts from its activity in the city. certain businesses that have their headquarters or administrative offices in san francisco that operate primarily in other locations would pay the gross receipts tax based on payroll costs. proposition e would require the city to phase in the gross receipts tax and phase out the tax on payroll costs over a 5 year period beginning in 2014. if the gross receipts tax revenue exceeds the revenue the city would have received under the tax on the payroll costs, then the tax on the payroll costs will be phased out and the final gross receipts tax rate will be lower than the maximum submitted in this measure. i'm here with board of
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supervisors president david chu, and also joining us is starchild and former candidate for public office and opponent of the office. supervisor chiu, please explain why we should be voting for this proposition. >> so proposition e is a measure it reform our current business tax. over a decade ago, a lawsuit forced our city to use a business tax that is problematic for many reasons. first and foremost, it is a tax on jobs. every time a local employer hires someone there is a business payroll tax that's levied on that person. secondly, it is a tax that is only levied on 10 percent of all businesses and many of these are small businesses who have really been asking for reform for many many years. currently we are the only city in the state of california that uses this business payroll tax. our city government, we spent 6 months earlier this year in conversations with many leaders
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within the community to propose a change to a so-called gross receipts tax, which is superior on a number of levels. first and foremost, it's a tax on revenue. it's a tax on profit. it's also a progressive tax, unlike the current flat tax it's a tax that exempts small businesses that have revenues of less than a million dollars but it also increases taxes for our most successful and our largest businesses. then the last thing i will mention, it is a tax that will help to recoup the revenues that we lost 10 years ago to make sure we have money for affordable housing, for muni, public safetying and public health . >> starchild, why do you think we should vote against this proposition? >> i agree with everything supervisor chiu said about payroll tax. if this measure were revenue neutral, if it were substituting a gross receipts tax for a tax on
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payroll, the libertarian party would have supported it. but unfortunately some people at city hall got greedy and so the measure is actually a 25.8 million dollars a year tax increase. during a recetion, people are suffering, many people unemployed, many people in san francisco are earning minimum wage, thousands of course on our streets. it's the wrong time to be raising taxes on businesses because the largest employers, of course, have the largest number of jobs and you incentivize those employers to go away and we're going to lose jobs. >> supervisor, from reading the material on the proposition it appears it will increase the number of businesses you will be taxing from 7500 to 15,000.
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doplt you think that's increasing the tax on the companies within the city? >> a couple things of note. our current business payroll tax is only applied to 10 percent of all businesses and that means these businesses are shouldering the burden for the entire business community of city services that the private sector receives. the business community has recognized for years that this is unfair and so what we've been trying to do is to spread these expenses more evenly across the business sector, going from 10 percent of all businesses to 20 percent of all businesses. and i think the other thing that's worth noting is 10 years ago when this lawsuit hit our city which forced us into the tax that we have now, this unfair tax, we lost about $30 million dollars of revenue. so what we're trying to do right now is make up that revenue. in recent years every single year i have been in office we have had to balance massive budget deficits. in fact, my first couple years we had half
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billion dollar budget deficits we were trying to eliminate from our budget. the thought of not only bringing back 30 million that we lost a couple years ago, it's only a small amount compared to what we have had to cut the last couple years and i think everyone has seen the impact of not having enough money for muni, having to close down services vital to our city, not having money to build affordable housing for our police officers, our fire fighters, our nurses, our public health system, i think we all see the benefit of that. >> starchild, you made a comment earlier that you agreed with the supervisor with the exception of the registration fee for all the businesses. is that the only issue that you disagree with or are there other issues that you disagree with? >> that's the only issue. the issue is that we shouldn't be transferring more money from the people of san francisco to the government of san francisco. government has grown so much in recent years and now we're in the middle of an economic downturn when people are hurting. thousands
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of individual san franciscoans, businesses, have had their budgets cut. they have lost jobs over the past decade. they have lost more revenue than the 30 million city hall has because city hall has taken more than that amount from the people and businesses of san francisco. unfortunately it's complicated to try to get them to tell their individual stories, it dosment tell about all the individual families and people that have had their budgets cut. any measure that takes more money from the people is a bad thing. this particular measure, it recognizes that going after the smallest employers is bad, you know, but most businesses in san francisco are small employers and why penalize them for growing and being successful? you know, if they start to get more -- i disagree that it's tax on profits because gross receipts is not
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necessarily profits, profits is a you earn after your expenses, gross receipts, it's what you earn before your expenses. somebody could learn a lot of money on paper and after their expenses they could lose money as a company but still have it pay this tax. >> supervisor, what would you like to say in closing? >> well, i think it's important to note that this was a measure that was worked on really by the people of san francisco. so it's a measure that's not only supported unanimously by the board of supervisors and by our mayor, but it was agreed upon with the business community as well as the entire labor community, the democratic party has endorsed it as well as the republican party. advocates for our homeless and public health system as well as our police and fire fighters and folks that want to build more affordable housing, there really is support for this across the spectrum. and i do think it's also worth noting that this measure, while it will bring a little bit more tax revenue, is also projected
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to bring in on average about 1700 new jobs a year when it is implemented. and the reason for that is rather than taxing jobs, we are taxing revenue. and we have targeted for different industries based on the levels of revenues that they get. some industries have high gross revenues but low profits and we have lower gross receipts rates for them, so the idea that somehow those industries might be targeted, we spent a lot of time with many leaders in the business community including and particularly small business advocates around the city to make sure this was carefully crafted. so i really do hope voters will support this consensus measure with proposition e because it's good measure for jobs, it's a good measure for our city, it's a good measure to make sure san francisco continues to inknow 78 and continue to employ all san franciscoans. >> starchild, how would you like to conclude? >> again, when you hear bi-partisan compromise at city
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hall, hold on to your walts as the saying goes. obviously the libertarian party didn't have a seat at the table and i don't feel like tax opponents in general -- proponents of people keeping more of their money they earn really had a seat at the table with this. mayor lee's initial proposal wasn't bad. he wanted to make it revenue neutral but the measure got modified through the back door dealing, things got changed and we round up with a revenue non-neutral measure. again, payroll tax is bad. i'm all for getting rid of it. everything else being equal, i'm sure it would result in more jobs but we'd rather see something fair across the board that didn't take more money from the people and, you know, few teer tax breaks to favored companies like twitter and so forth, just a strict revenue neutral approach across the board for everyone. >> thank you for your time.
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we hope this discussion was informative. for more information on this and other ballot measures in this election please visit the league of women voters at sfvotes.org. remember, early voting is available monday through friday at city hall from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm if you hi, i'm jay coenig, a member of the league of women voters. along with the league and sfgovtv, i'm here to discuss proposition f, a ballot measure that will be before the voters on november 6. san francisco owns the hetch hetchy regional water system which provides water to about 2.5 million people in san
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francisco and neighboring areas. proposition f would require the city to prepare a two-phase plan to evaluate how to drain the hetch hetchy reservoir and identify replacement water and power sources. the first phase would identify new water supply and storage options, additional water conservation opportunities, expanded water filtration facilities, and additional renewable energy sources. the second phase would evaluate how to drain the hetch hetchy valley and stop using it as a reservoir so it can be restored by the national park service, increase flows on the lower tuolome river and decrease storm water discharge into the bay and the ocean. proposition f would allocate 8 million dollars to pay for the plan and create a 5-member task fers to develop it. i'm here with mike marshal,
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the executive director of restore hetch hetchy and a proponent of proposition f we're also joined by district 7 supervisor, sean he elsbernd, representing the save hetch hetchy no on f campaign. gentlemen, thanks so much for taking the time to be with us today. >> thank you. >> mike, i'd like to give you the opportunity to make a brief statement of your work on the proposition. >> wonderful, thank you. proposition f is about san francisco's values, it's about their environmental values. in real short explanation, it requires the city to develop a plan for the future to guarantee our water security and begin to undo the damage that our current water system does to the environment. the plan would then be brought back to the voters in 2016 for their aprafl or disapproval so it's placing the city on a trajectory we're not currently on. we don't recycle any water, we've abandoned most
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ground water since hetch hetchy became available and we've done real damage to the tuolome river and we begin it's time to get in line with the city's values. it's a plan the voters ultimately get to approve. >> i disagree. i think proposition f is about one thing and one thing only, about forcing the city to spend $8 million dollars to conduct a plan that would require us to drain hetch hetchy reservoir at a cost of anywhere between 3 and 10 billion dollars that gets translated to our rate payers at anywhere between $2,000 and $2700 per year per rate payer. this is a proposal largely hoisted upon san franciscoans by outsiders. not one san francisco organization supports this measure. every group from san francisco tomorrow to the republican party across the political
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spectrum opposes us wasting this money, particularly because it is a plan that has been conducted at least 7 times over the last many decades and each time we've been told it is a colossal failure and not one we should pursue. >> mike, this gives you an opportunity to tell us why this time would be different. >> what sean is describing is not what's in the initiative. it's just a planning process. yes, our goal is to bring the hetch hetchy valley and yosemite back to life. san francisco is the only city allowed to park its water in a national park. a hundred years we made that decision and bee think every hundred years san francisco should revisit that decision. there's no down side to that. but you can't do that without also reforming our 19th century water system. it was designed in the 19th century and as a
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Effective capital planning and capital investment are vital to a company's long-term success. The choices a company makes – how much to invest and in which facilities or projects – have a profound effect on its long-term success. For that reason, companies take pains to ensure that these decisions support their long-term strategies and are made as rationally as possible. Because Ventana Research is frequently involved in software acquisition discussions, return on investment is a topic we frequently see raised.
Long-range planning is a process and discipline that companies use to ensure they have the right strategy to succeed in the markets they serve and the right assets to support their strategic objectives. To do that they must allocate their investments in those assets as optimally as feasible and possess sufficient resources (both financial and other elements, such as personnel with the appropriate skills) to support those investments. The key activities in the long-range planning process are:
The time span covered by "long-range" planning can differ significantly from one company to the next and especially from one industry to the next, but in almost all cases it exceeds one fiscal year. The actual length is in part a function of the natural business cycle of the industry. For many manufacturing and services companies it is typically three to five years. For industries that have long development cycles, such as pharmaceuticals and aerospace, it can be as long as 15 to 20 years. Even businesses that are notoriously unpredictable and that have short business cycles benefit from having a strategic planning discipline. Decades ago, when I was interviewing with investment banks, I had a standard business-school set of questions prepared, including one about their strategic planning. Some Wall Street companies did have a strategic planning process, but most didn't – dismissing it as impossible in what they saw as a "highly opportunistic" business. Two that did were Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Two that didn't were the now defunct Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.
Companies face multiple challenges in managing their long-term planning processes. These include:
In capital spending decisions the burden of proof is heavily on the side of the proposer. Project champions must jump through hoops to make a convincing case that an investment is not only worthwhile but also better than alternatives. Strangely, though, once a capital project is approved, a vanishingly small percentage of companies assess whether the projected returns were ever realized. In the decades that I have been asking the question, I have yet to find a single company that does any post-investment measurement of specific projects. Since I'm a rational numbers guy, I've long wondered why. One reason might be that, acknowledged or not, one of the main objectives of the capital spending decision-making process is not necessarily optimizing capital investments. Rather, it's simply to separate the obviously bad ideas from the rest. Applying any rigorous methodology to quantifying potential returns from a capital project is bound to expose many or even most of those with limited potential, faulty assumptions or too much risk. Yet I think this approach sets a very low bar. Having a more rigorous post-investment analytical process would enable companies to do a more effective job of allocating resources.
Ultimately, the success of a company's long-range planning and investment process can be measured over time in its gross return on assets relative to its competitors' and, if it's publicly traded, partly by the company's share price. A gross rather than net asset approach is useful because it reduces accounting distortions in cases where companies may have written off poor investments or used different reported depreciation approaches for similar asset classes.
Companies – even small businesses – should have a rigorous long-term planning and capital spending discipline in place to ensure that they successfully manage for the long term. Companies that already have such a process in place should reexamine it regularly to determine where it is falling short or failing to identify the right path and the appropriate investments for their strategic direction.
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Alan Kay Is Tron
The protagonist in the
is named Alan, and is fighting against the command-line oriented
. This was a deliberate allegory of the life of
. Alan and one of writers of Tron (BonnieMacBird
) subsequently were married.
I could be wrong, but "Tron" sounded like it came from the early 8-bit Microsoft BASIC (MBASIC) commands "TRON" (Trace on) & "TROFF" (Trace off). (Now I date myself; circa 8-bit CP/M-80. ;-) --
Yes. There were other such references; I think I recall a character named "Rem", which was the only way to do comments in primitive, benighted BASICs. (also fearlessly dating myself ;-) --
Nope, I think he was called RAM. He was an actuarial program. It really gave him a good feeling, helping people plan for their future needs.
REM was a character in the TV series of Logan's Run (played by Donald Moffat) --
Don't forget about ROM, the Space Knight
No need to date yourself, the
had both REM and TRON/TROFF.
And that's not dating oneself? ;-)
Well, at least you could range in age quite a bit.
I always say, if you can't date someone else, you may as well date yourself! Ho ho ho!
I'd wager dollars to donuts that the 64 didn't have those trace statements. The 128 did, and it's possible that some of the intermediate machines (+4/16) did too but I'm not up on their versions of BASIC.
You're right. If you want to trace, you can GoSub
to this line sometimes:
128 BASIC also had computed GOTO (A=100+I:GOTO A)
Steven Lisberger acknowledged in an interview about the original movie, which is on the Collector's Edition DVD, that people have thought "TRON" came from the "Trace on", "Trace off" commands "on computers", as he put it. He said the original inspiration actually came from the word "electron". -- MarkMiller
Just a note here, after my recent purchase of the TRON 20th anniversary DVD I listened to the directors commentary in which they stated that while "Allen" was in fact named for Alan Kay the term TRON does not in fact refer to the acronym for Trace ON as at the time of filming they were not even aware that such a thing existed. It is actually a much less dramatic shortened version of the word elecTRON. I know it steals some of the nostalgia doesn't it?
I am TRON.
Seems you let yourself go a bit:
TRON - based on WKRP scene, illustrating ignorance is not necessarily bliss.
"NeuTRON , elecTRON, proTON"
TRON is Swahili for "Dude". Jeff Bridges is, "The Dude".
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The problem for South Carolina Stingrays goalie Philipp Grubauer is that he makes everything look so easy.
Grubauer stopped 27 shots and Matt Scherer got the game- winner early in the third period to lead South Carolina past Cincinnati, 3-1, Sunday afternoon before a crowd of 3,689 at the North Charleston Coliseum.
The Stingrays (34-24-6, 74 points) remain in sixth place in the ECHL's Eastern Conference. The Cyclones (29-23-9, 67 points) fell to seventh place.
From the beginning of the season, Stingrays head coach Spencer Carbery said that Grubauer probably deserved to be playing in the American Hockey League. The Washington Capitals' fourth-round draft pick has been called up to the AHL just once and has yet to play for Hershey, the Capitals' AHL affiliate this season.
Carbery isn't complaining.
There are times when Carbery can only shake his head in amazement at some of the saves the talented rookie makes and how he makes very difficult saves look routine.
Grubauer's skill was on full display against the Cyclones. Grubauer made a sprawling pad save on Anthony Luciani during a Cyclones power play in the first period and barely broke a sweat making several stops on bouncing pucks.
"The problem with Philipp is that we've come to expect that kind of performance from him every game," Carbery said. "The one save he made at the end of the first period on the back door was one of his best all season. I think we kind of take him for granted because he keeps us in games that sometimes we might not deserve to get two points. He earned those two points for us tonight."
Grubauer has embraced his time in the ECHL and steadily worked to improve on an already impressive skill set.
"You want to play at the highest level you can play at, but being here has helped me overall as a player," Grubauer said. "I've gotten to play much more down here in South Carolina than I would have in Hershey, and at this point in my career that's important."
Scherer went from zero to hero in less than three minutes. With the Stingrays leading 1-0 early in the third period, Scherer checked Cincinnati captain Mathieu Aubin from behind. Scherer was called for a boarding penalty that give the Cyclones a 5-on-3 advantage for more than a minute.
Cincinnati wasted little time with its two-man advantage as David MacDonald scored to tie the game at 1 with 15 minutes left in regulation.
Less than three minutes later, Scherer crashed the net and slammed home a Tyler Shelast rebound on what would turn out to be the game-winner.
First Period: 1. SC, Koger 9 (Pereira, Tarkir), 17:57. Penalties: MacDonald, C (high sticking), 15:39; Stevenson, SC (cross checking), 18:39.
Second Period: No goals. Penalties: Aubin, C (roughing), 18:42; Flemming, SC (roughing), 18:42.
Third Period: 2. C, MacDonald 1 (Edwards, Pelech), 3:40. 3. SC, Scherer 7 (Shelast, O'Brien), 5:34. 4. SC, Ryan 5 (Tarkir), 19:46. Penalties: Stevenson, SC (tripping), 2:18; Scherer, SC (boarding), 3:04; Arcibal, SC (high sticking), 7:29.
Shots on Goal: Stingrays 6-7-8-21; Cincinnati: 9-13-6-28. Penalties: Stingrays 5-10; Cincinnati 2-4. Power Play: Stingrays 0 for 1; Cincinnati 1 for 4. Goalies: Stingrays - Grubauer (23-13-5) 28 shots, 27 saves. Cincinnati - Foster (12-6-2) 20 shots, 18 saves. Att: 3,689.
Daniel Koger, who was acquired from Cincinnati in a trade that involved defenseman Nick Tabisz, scored the game's first goal with less than three minutes left in the opening period.
"I remember as a player it was always nice to score against your old team, especially one that traded you away," Carbery said. "I know Daniel still has a lot of friends on their bench."
Slap shots
Matt Pope (Hershey), Maxime Lacroix (Hershey) and Sean Dolan (Charlotte) are currently called up to the American Hockey League.
Goalie Daren Machesney (lower body) and forwards Chris Higgins (upper body), Greg Stewart (upper body) and David de Kastrozza (lower body) and Mike Hamilton (lower body) are out of the lineup with injuries.
The Stingrays are 20-11-2 at home and 14-13-4 on the road this season.


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