Abstract: A data processing system for managing information related to a plurality of financial assets associated with housing and mortgage investments of an investor includes user interface logic configured to receive data regarding the plurality of financial assets including data regarding a plurality of properties associated with the plurality of financial assets. The user interface logic is further configured to provide access to the data regarding the plurality of financial assets. Data management logic is coupled to the user interface logic and is configured to retrieve and process the data regarding the plurality of financial assets. A database is coupled to the data management logic and the user interface logic and is configured to store the data regarding the plurality of financial assets and to link data for a particular property of the plurality of properties across the plurality of financial assets.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided enabling sound editing for videotape to be carried out using procedures substantially identical to those conventionally used when the picture carrying medium is photographic film. Editing is carried out using a mechanical synchronizer, the tape drive of a videotape playback apparatus being slaved to the synchronizer shaft using control signals generated by comparing codes, updated in accordance with cumulative movements of the shaft, with codes recorded on the videotape to identify successive frames of picture information thereon.