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Cassette to CD Orange County
Transfer Audio Cassettes
Although they are now being shoved into obscurity, audio cassettes were once the most popular format for storing and listening to music. If you are in possession of important audio tapes, we suggest converting them today! Our audio cassette to CD services in Orange County will help you to transfer your cassettes and preserve them on our 100-year archival CDs, so they will be safe for a lifetime.
Other Supported Formats
Audio Restoration Services
Check out our professional audio restoration services. We provide two levels of service depending on how much restoration your audio needs.
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Audio Cassette to CD
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- We use a professional, high-quality tape deck to ensure the best quality transfer. All audio is recorded onto the highest grade CDs.
- For quantities over 20 tapes, additional bulk discounts apply. Please inquire at the time of your order.
- Blu-ray data disc: Add $20 per Blu-ray data disc. Blu-ray discs can hold up to 25GB of data. (Must have BD-R optical drive to read data)
Extra Copies
Sharing your memories with others? We provide extra CD/DVD copies packaged and ready for only $10 each.$10 per CD / DVD
CD Ripping
Looking to convert your CD collection to digital music files? We can help! Our professional audio CD ripping services provide you with the freedom to enjoy your music anywhere. Convert your CDs to MP3, AAC, FLAC, Apple Lossless & WAV locally.Click for Pricing
Upgrade to Blu-ray
Upgrade your audio transfer order to our Blu-Ray discs for only $20! We'll place your music as data on a Blu-ray disc, which holds much more data than a CD or DVD. For more information about our Blu-ray services, please visit our Blu-ray transfer page.$20 per Blu-ray disc
Tape Repair Service
Tape Repair Service is only $30 per tape. Re-splicing the tape and replacing the cassette shell when necessary are included in this service. Repaired tapes must go through our tape transfer service after the repair has finished. Got a simple fix? Check out our Video Tape Repair Guide.$30 per tape
Audio Restoration
We also offer post-recording audio restoration on the media you have transferred. Among them are noise, click, pop and scratch reduction/removal, normalization, equalization, and track splicing (creating one good copy from two bad ones). This service is offered at $40 per half hour of editing time.
Basic Restoration: $20 per media piece
Advanced Restoration: $40 per media piece
Premium Restoration: $80 per media piece
Audio Cassette Transfer
Audio Cassettes
The compact audio cassette, or also known as a cassette tape, cassette, or just tape is a magnetic sound recording medium used primarily for professional, and consumer recordings. Audio cassettes are generally considered to be the successor of the standard 1/4″ audio reels. By the late 1970s, audio cassettes were one of the most popular forms of prerecorded music, along with the LP, and later on the compact disc. Cassettes consist of two small reels enclosed between two plastic protective shells, usually held by screws or glue. The tape can be mono or stereo, and can be played in both directions, for a total of two playable sides.
Audio Cassette to CD Transfer Process
Prior to the cassette to CD transfer, your audio cassette will be inspected by our audio transfer technician to check for any inconsistancies or damage to the tape or audio cassette casing. Upon coming across a problem with one or more of your cassette tapes, we will contact you to let you know exactly what the issue is, and how we can go about fixing it. Once the initial audio cassette to CD transfer is completed, we store your files to our in-house computers. From there, the audio cassette transfer is run through our powerful audio editing tools which allow the audio cassette transfer technician to determine the sound quality of the cassette tape to CD transfer. If needed, we offer basic audio cleanup services to remove sound recording errors or other problems which are common in older analog tape recordings. Once the recording is determined to be of optimum quality, it will then be burned to a 100-year archival audio CD and then labeled to your specifications.
Keep in mind that audio CDs can hold up to 74 minutes of recording time. For 90 minute audio cassettes to CD, we will have to break up the tape onto two CDs in order to process the order. Typically, after the audio transfer, we would put side A of the cassette on one disc, and then side B of the cassette onto the other disc, but we can combine or mix them in any fashion you choose.
When you bring audio cassette in for transferring, you have the option to set up what's called "track splits". Track splitting will enable you to skip from one track to another while playing the CD in your CD Player. This is especially useful for audio cassettes with recorded music, as you can switch songs easier than ever before.
Basic Audio Cassette Editing
With our basic audio editing services, we can help fix up the minor problems that may be present in your audio cassette recordings. Our audio transfer technicians are trained on a wide variety of methods to remedy audio issues.
- Speed up or slow down your audio. Older audio cassette tapes were often capable of being recorded at different speeds. If you have an audio cassette tape that plays either too fast, or too slow, we can fix this by digitally adjusting the playback speed to the perfect level.
- Remove unwanted sound from recordings – If you had ever wanted to clean up your audio cassette tape by removing randomly placed blips of static or noise, we can remove any unwanted noises or whole chunks of audio, if desired.
- Custom-placed track splitting – We can strategically place track splits anywhere in your recording!
- Remove static hums and hiss from your audio – We can greatly diminish the presence of a static humming or hiss sound that persists throughout your recording. Depending on the quality of the original cassette, we can produce some amazing results.
- Pop/Click removal – Older audio generally exhibits some form of degradation such as clicking and popping. This is mostly caused by dust and dirt that has clung onto your audio over the years.
Audio Cassette Audio Restoration
Do your recordings have some audio issues? Our audio restoration service can help to revitalize your old recordings. Our audio restoration technicians are heavily experienced with handling a wide array of older audio recordings with a variety of symptoms. Although often a complicated process, we can usually greatly diminish many common problems associated with older analog media. Please speak to your local audio technician if you have any questions.
Transferring Audio Cassette to MP3
While CDs are the most convenient format for most customers, we can transfer your audio cassette audio into just about any file format you can think of. You can specify bit rate, number of channels as well as hertz for your custom MP3 or WAV file. The default MP3 settings are 320 kilobits per second at 44,100 hertz. If you are bringing in your own flash/hard drive with data on it to store these files, there is a $15 setup fee. There is no fee if your drive does not have data on it or if we've provided the drive for you.
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Hate crimes and incidents are any crime or incident which is targeted at a victim because of the offender's hostility or prejudice against an identifiable group of people.
So any incident or crime, which is perceived to be motivated because of a person's sexual orientation or transgender identity - either their actual sexual orientation or gender identity or as perceived by the offender - will be recorded as such. Hate crimes can be committed against a person or property.
"Any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person's sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation."
Sexual orientation includes (but is not limited to), asexual, bisexual, hetrosexual and homosexual.
A hate crime targetting transgender is:
Details on how to report an incident and what you can report is available on the 'Report a hate crime' page. You can use a self reporting form or complete the online form on the 'Reporting online' page. You may also be able to report incidents through the organisations listed on this website on the 'Organisations that can help' page.
By reporting it, you may be able to prevent these incidents from happening to someone else.
Reporting makes a difference...to you, your friends, your community and your life.
The Police and other criminal justice agencies consider all hate crime to be very serious, including homophobic and transphobic hate crime. When a case is prosecuted, the courts can impose a stronger sentence under powers from the Criminal Justice Act. This reflects the priority placed on these crimes. The Police have performance targets and measures in place to ensure the service they offer is of the highest standard.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the organisation that takes cases through the court system. They have produced guidance on Homophobic and Transphobic Hate Crime that is available on the 'Prosecuting hate crimes' page of this website (opens in new window).


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"Give America a raise," President Barack Obama urged Congress in his State of the Union address in January, and he didn't wait long to take a step in that direction.
While almost all direct federal employees make well over the $7.25 and hour minimum wage, thousands of people who work indirectly for the government – paid by the contractors who run concessions at National Parks, build federal projects or clean federal buildings – toil at low-wage jobs. So last month Obama signed an executive order declaring that all new federal contracts must include provisions ensuring workers make at least $10.10 an hour.
Obama's reasons echoed those of others pushing for a minimum wage increase: Money added to the paychecks of working families will be plowed back into the economy, helping fuel growth. Inflation has eaten away at the purchasing power of minimum wage earners. No one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.
The arguments for a higher minimum wage are just as compelling here in Massachusetts as they are in Washington. Massachusetts has a minimum wage 75 cents higher than the national wage, but the cost of living is higher here as well. Income inequality is also higher than average here, and growing.
And, while only a handful of direct state employees earn the minimum wage, state contractors employ thousands of low-wage workers - those who serve food and wash dishes at state university dining halls, those who change beds at the state-owned, but privately managed, hotel in the middle of the UMass Amherst campus and those who clean state office buildings, for starters. Direct care workers for social service agencies operating under state contracts start employees as low as $9 an hour.
Our efforts to find out from state officials how many government workers or contract employees there are, and how much they earn, have been unsuccessful. The Patrick administration doesn't know how little some of those doing the work of state government are paid, and shows no sign of preparing to do anything about it.
Massachusetts is closer to raising the minimum wage for all workers than Congress is to raising the national minimum wage. The state Senate has approved an increase in the minimum wage to $11 an hour, and House leadership has promised to take up the issue this year. Gov. Deval Patrick has been as forceful as the president in advocating for a higher minimum wage.
But Patrick hasn't followed Obama's example of ordering a higher wage for employees of state contractors. He should. State government shouldn't be a minimum wage employer, and nor should the companies from which it contracts services.
This week, Gap, Inc. announced it was raising the minimum pay rate for all its retail employees. Walmart, the nation's largest employer, is said to be considering support for a higher federal minimum wage. The momentum for higher wages for America's working poor seems to be building.
Massachusetts needs a raise, too. Gov. Patrick should do his part by ordering higher pay for those doing government work and just scraping by.
Editorial: On wages, Patrick should follow Obama
"Give America a raise," President Barack Obama urged Congress in his State of the Union address in January, and he didn't wait long to take a step in that direction.


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By Marlena De Lacroix
When I was a young girl my mother took me to City Center in Manhattan to see a revival of the 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical Brigadoon. In it, two American men on a trip to Scotland stumble upon a strange town, the Brigadoon of the title, from a
Can Agnes Nixon, who brought us this revival of Pine Valley as Brigadoon, continue to ward off Fronsie and the callow macho-ness of ABC Daytime's boys club? What can be done so that THIS Pine Valley lives on every day — not just once every ten years?
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Student speakers for commencement selected
Ellyn Getz speaking for undergraduates, Enrique Levin for grad students
Undergraduate Ellyn Getz and graduate student Enrique Levin have been chosen to give the student addresses at Brandeis' 62nd commencement, on Sunday, May 19.
Getz, a double major in business and theater arts, is also an undergraduate department representative for theater arts and a Roosevelt Fellow.
"I couldn't be happier with my decision to attend Brandeis," said Getz. "I have learned so much from the community around me, and I feel so fortunate to study here. It will be a huge honor to congratulate the graduating class and to speak on behalf of its enthusiasm and strong sense of leadership."
Levin is an International Business School MBA student from Mexico who grew up in a very diverse household -- with a Brazilian mother with Russian roots and a Mexican/Guatemalan father with Polish roots – and received an American education in a Jewish environment.
He was educational program coordinator for the Graduate Student Association, founder of the Graduate Doers Club and a member of the 'DEIS Impact organizing committee.
"I will focus my speech on the great contributions graduate students make to this institution," said Levin. "I would like to share my experience at Brandeis, talk to my graduating peers about what is to come, and share some questions and concerns about the future."
According to his LinkedIn profile, Levin created his first startup at age 15 and launched his first successful business at age 19. He has successfully launched three startups so far.
Undergraduate seniors who were interested in speaking at the event submitted their speeches by the end of February to the Office of the Dean of Student Life. A total of 28 applicants sent in speeches.
A committee made up of four seniors, three faculty and one staff member read the submissions without knowing the identities of the writers and selected the top 10, which were made available online for the senior class to read and vote on. The voting process then narrowed the number of entries to five.
Dean of Student Life Rick Sawyer and the committee listened to the finalists present their speeches last Thursday, and recommended one for President Fred Lawrence's approval.
Levin was selected by the executive officers of the Graduate Students Association.
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Physicist: The short answer is; you probably can, but not for long.
If you've taken a little chemistry you probably know that the electrons in an atom "stack up" in energy levels. The more electrons you add, the higher the electrons have to stack. The same is true for the protons and neutrons inside the nucleus of the atom. What's a little surprising is that the stack for the protons and the stack for the neutrons are independent of each other.
In a stable atom the energy in the proton stack will be about the same as the energy in the neutron stack. If they're unequal, then a neutron will turn into a proton ( decay), or a proton will turn into a neutron ( decay) to even out the levels. The greater the difference the sooner the decay, and the more radioactive the atom. There are plenty of exceptions (e.g., Uranium 237 vs. 238), but the pattern usually holds.
An atomic nucleus made entirely out of neutrons (known to some sci-fi aficionados as "neutronium") would be completely imbalanced and would decay instantly. It would be tremendously radioactive.
Chemistry nerds may have noticed that heavier elements have more neutrons than protons. For example, Iron 58 has 26 protons, 32 neutrons, and is stable. Forcing protons together takes a lot of energy (likes repel), so after hydrogen, proton energy levels get higher, quicker, than than neutron energy levels.
Exception! In neutron stars you have the added component of lots of gravity. When a proton and an electron fuse into a neutron they take up less room, and since gravity wants to crush everything together, this is a lower energy state. So neutron stars are the one example of stable neutronium. However, most people would say that calling an ex-star an atomic nucleus is pushing the definition of "atomic" a bit far. Even more exciting; neutron stars may also contain the only naturally occurring stable lambda particles!
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When Walker Harris reminisces on Monarch's run into the 2012 state hockey tournament, he has to contend he was playing for a much different team.
With the Coyotes' roster filled with freshmen and sophomores a year ago, the forward points out the team was wide eyed when it hit the ice. And the nervy entry to the testing bracket made for a quick exit from the postseason. One round and Monarch was sent packing.
This year, however, the team has a completely different feel to Harris. After skating to one of the Coyotes' best seasons and earning home ice the opening two rounds of state, the forward is certain his team is ready to make some noise in the postseason.
"We're much more confident about what we're bring into state this year," he said. "We're ready to go out and prove something."
Monarch (16-1-1) got a huge boost Sunday in its attempt to leave a mark on the state stage. The team earned the No. 2 seed for its side of the brackets, meaning Friday and, if everything works out, Saturday it will be in the friendly confines of Boulder Valley Ice.
Home ice, from Harris' perspective, has all kinds of advantages. The most obvious is the familiarity the players will have with the venue, getting to suit up in their own locker room. But he is also hoping a loud and boisterous pack of Coyote fans fill the stands to give the team an edge.
"We definitely are hoping a big fan base turns out," said Harris, who has 43 points on the season.
Monarch has plenty of work to still do, but coach Jimmy Dexter is certain his team has made the right moves to build a head of steam for the tournament. For the coach, the biggest boost of the season was the Coyotes' finale against Regis.
The Coyotes had to gut a tie after what Dexter described as a few fluky goals from the Raiders. But coach was still excited after going down to the wire with the defending state champion.
"We thought we played them very well and were happy with the effort," he said. "We came out the aggressors, but some lack of discipline caught us at the end."
The problem against Regis Dexter was referring to was having to finish the game shorthanded. Penalties have been an issue with Monarch all season, one Dexter believes his team must address if it expects to push deep into the playoffs.
"That and make sure we're playing all three periods," he said.
The team will have plenty to motivate them right off the bat given the Coyotes' opposition. The team hosts No. 7 Lewis-Palmer (10-8-1) in the opening round, the team that ended Monarch's season a year ago.
"We feel like we're ready to turn the tables on them," Harris said.
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State hockey playoffs
FIRST ROUND, Friday
At Boulder Valley Ice
No. 2 Monarch (16-1-1) vs. No. 7 Lewis-Palmer (10-8).
No. 3 Air Academy (13-4-1) vs. No. 7 Mullen (10-8-1).
At World Arena
No. 1 Fountain Valley (14-4) vs. No. 8 Chatfield (8-10).
No. 4 Regis (14-1-3) vs. No. 5 Heritage (15-3).
At Apex Ice
No. 1 Ralston Valley (15-2-1) vs. No. 8 Machebuef (7-11).
No. 4 Valor Christian (13-4-1) vs. Standley Lake (12-5-2).
At South Suburban Ice
No. 2 Mountain Vista (16-3) vs. No. 7 Aspen (10-8).
No. 3 Resurrection Christian (14-3-2) vs. No. 6 Dohety (13-6).
QUARTERFINALS, Saturday
At Boulder Valley Ice
At World Arena
At Apex Ice
At South Suburban Ice
SEMIFINALS, Feb. 28
At Magness Arena, 6 p.m., 8:30 p.m.
CHAMPIONSHIP, March 1
At Magness Arena, 6 p.m.


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The OA Central for Olympus AIR app is your gateway to creativity! With 6 different shooting features, you can enjoy classically composed portraits, artistic shots, creative photo collages and perfectly produced Full HD videos. With premium content right on your mobile device, you can immediate upload share-worthy shots to all your social media platforms.
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The Clips feature takes all the guess work out of video editing so you can easily create short videos that are perfect for sharing online. Take several short snippets of video and use the Clips interface to rearrange them, add transitions or background music, apply creative art effects, and then package it all up in a portable file size that's quick and easy to upload.
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As I reminisce about my first year at Palmer West, I realize that I have only just begun this chiropractic journey. Being a student in a chiropractic school you understand that the field is progressing so rapidly that what you learned last year could be negated next year. What you tested on to be the "truth" will only be proven incorrect in the next upcoming research and the information provided to you is somewhat negotiable. Isn't that the fun of the field? Nobody chose chiropractic as a career choice thinking, " I'd love to sit in an office all day; edit papers, write emails and make phone calls to people that don't really want to talk to me." We entered this field knowing that its internal upheaval only leaves room for more progress and more creativity. Think about it…you can be any kind of chiropractor you want once you have that certificate, you can see as many or as little patients a day as you'd like, you can specialize in rehab, weight loss, functionality, chronic pain, endocrine, etc. People in pain need help and we have the potential to have a tool belt overflowing with some of chiropractics greatest tools. So my advice, look at each subject, each club meeting, each certification course and each seminar as a way to add another tool to your growing tool belt. If something disagrees with your philosophy or negates what you were taught last quarter, research it and debate it. The best way to add tools to your belt is to prove that you know how to use them.
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Kamondo Merdivenleri İstanbul'un Galata semtindeki Voyvoda Caddesi'yle ile Banker Sokağı'nı birleştiren art nouveau üslûplu merdivenlerdir.
1850'li yıllarda yapılan merdivenler bölgenin en önemli banker ailelerinden biri olan Kamondo Ailesinden Avram Kamondo adı yaptırılmıştır. O zamanlar Banker Sokağı da Rue Kamondo (Kamondo caddesi) olarak bilinmekteydi.
Istanbul (historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see the other names of Istanbul) is the largest city of Turkey and the third largest city in the world. The city covers 27 districts of the Istanbul province.It is located on the Bosphorus Strait and encompasses the natural harbor known as the Golden Horn, in the northwest of the country. It extends both on the European (Thrace) and on the Asian (Anatolia) side of the Bosphorus, and is thereby the only metropolis in the world which is situated on two continents. In its long history, Istanbul served as the capital city of the Roman Empire (330–395), the East Roman (Byzantine) Empire (395–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922). The city was chosen as joint European Capital of Culture for 2010. The historic areas of Istanbul were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985.


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Louis Bachelier
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Died: 26 April 1946 in St-Servan-sur-Mer, France
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The French mathematician, Louis Bachelier is now recognised internationally as the father of financial mathematics, but this fame, which he so justly deserved, was a long time coming. The Bachelier Society, named in his honour, is the world-wide financial mathematics society and mathematical finance is now a scientific discipline of its own. The Society held its first World Congress on 2000 in Paris on the hundredth anniversary of Bachelier's celebrated PhD Thesis Théorie de la Spéculation Ⓣ [24].
Five years before Einstein's famous 1905 paper [4] on Brownian Motion, in which Einstein derived the equation (the partial differential heat/diffusion equation of Fourier) governing Brownian motion and made an estimate for the size of molecules, Bachelier had worked out, for his Thesis, the distribution function for what is now known as the Wiener stochastic process (the stochastic process that underlies Brownian Motion) linking it mathematically with the diffusion equation. The probabilist William Feller had originally called it the Bachelier-Wiener Process. It appears that Einstein in 1905 was ignorant of the work of Bachelier.
Seventy three years before Black and Scholes wrote their famous paper in 1973 [5], Bachelier had derived the price of an option where the share price movement is modelled by a Wiener process and derived the price of what is now called a barrier option (namely the option which depends on whether the share price crosses a barrier). Black and Scholes, following the ideas of Osborne and Samuelson, modelled the share price as a stochastic process known as a Geometric Brownian Motion (with drift).
Louis Bachelier was born in Le Havre in 1870. After education at secondary school in Caen he lost both his parents and had to enter the family business. It was during this period that he seems to have become familiar with the workings of financial markets.
At the age of 22, Bachelier arrived in Paris at the Sorbonne where he followed the lectures of Paul Appell. Joseph Boussinesq and Henri Poincaré (the latter being then aged 38). After some 8 years, in 1900, Bachelier defended his thesis Théorie de la Spéculation Ⓣ before these three men, the favourable report being written by no less a figure than Henri Poincaré, one of the most eminent mathematicians in the world at the time.
Quite what his employment was between 1900 and 1914 (when he was drafted into the French Army during the First World War) is not known. It is known, however, that he received occasional scholarships to continue his studies (on the recommendation of Émile Borel (1871-1956)) and he gave lectures as a 'free professor' at the Sorbonne between 1909 and 1914. One of his courses was Probability calculus with applications to financial operations and analogies with certain questions from physics. In this course he may have drawn out the similarities between the diffusion of probability (the total probability of one being conserved) and the diffusion equation of Fourier (the total heat-energy being conserved). In 1912 he wrote a book Calcul des Probabilités Ⓣ and in 1914 a book Le Jeu, la Chance et le Hazard Ⓣ. At the end of the War he obtained an academic position (lecturer) at Besançon then moved to Dijon (1922), then to Rennes (1925).
In 1926 he tried to go back to Dijon by applying for the vacant chair but was turned down on account of a critical report from Paul Lévy (1886-1971), then a professor aged 40 at the École Polytechnique.
Bachelier in his Thesis, in progressing from a 'drunkards' random walk with n (discrete) steps in time t, each step being of length d, to a (continuous) distribution for where the drunkard might be at time t, realised that there had to be a relationship between n and d - d equal to (t/n)(1/2) for the limit process to 'work'.
In a later paper [38] he showed, effectively, that if a random walk on the y-axis is represented as a graph in time with the 'drunkard' making n steps in time t, each step of length d, the path was such that the tangent of the path angle {i.e. d divided by (t/n)} became increasingly large {in the ratio (n/t)(1/2)} as n increased. The paths in the time-graph got more and more vertical (up or down) with increasing n but the resulting distribution of where the drunkard might be became increasingly regular. Paul Levy thought that Bachelier had made a mistake in his paper by making the tangent of the path (up or down) constant and Bachelier failed to be appointed at Dijon. Bachelier was furious and wrote to Levy, who, apparently, was unrepentant over this calumny.
The algebraic sum of the upwards and downwards steps taken by the drunkard gives the height of the drunkard at time t above the origin while the sum of the squares of the steps is equal to t and the algebraic and absolute sum of the cubes of the upward and downward steps (and higher powers) become closer and closer to zero. It is these properties of continuity, non-differentiability, infinite 1st order variation, finite 2nd order variation and zero 3rd or higher order variation that gives the drunkard's walk and, in the limit, Brownian Motion some of its unique character and leads to Itô's important Lemma.
It seems extraordinary that Levy was, apparently, unfamiliar with Bachelier's work as Bachelier had by this time (1926) published 3 books and some 13 papers on probability and regarded showing how a continuous distribution could be derived from a discrete distribution as his most important achievement. Levy once told J L Doob that "reading other writers' mathematics gave him physical pain" (see website below) so perhaps it was the case that Levy had never read Bachelier.
Borel, however, must have known Bachelier (he had approved the scholarships to Bachelier). It should be pointed out that Poincaré, who would not have made this mistake over the interpretation of Bachelier's work, had died some 14 years earlier.
It seems that Bachelier, was regarded as being of lesser importance in the eyes of the French mathematical élite (Hadamard, Borel, Lebesgue, Lévy, Baire). His mathematics was not rigorous (it could not be as the mathematical techniques necessary to make it so had not been developed e.g. measure theory and axiomatic probability) although, his results were basically correct.
However, Levy, a few years later, was apparently surprised to find Kolmogorov referring to Bachelier's work. In 1931, Levy wrote a letter of apology to Bachelier and they were reconciled.
Bachelier moved back to Besançon (this time as permanent professor) in 1927 and retired aged 67 in 1937. His last publication was in 1941 and he died in 1946 aged 76.
Bachelier's work is remarkable for herein lie the theory of Brownian Motion (one of the most important mathematical discoveries of the 20th century), the connection between random walks and diffusion, diffusion of probability, curves lacking tangents (non-differentiable functions), the distribution of the Wiener process and of the maximum value attained in a given time by a Wiener process, the reflection principle, the pricing of options including barrier options, the Chapman-Kolmogorov equations in the continuous case,
(namely f (xn | xs) = f (xn | xr) f (xr | xs) dxr where n > r > s where f are the transition densities of a Markov sequence of random variables) and the seeds of Markov Processes, weak convergence of random variables (i.e. convergence in distribution), martingales and Itô stochastic calculus.
Bachelier's treatment and understanding of the theory of Brownian Motion (originally called Brownian Movement) is more elegant and mathematical than in Einstein's 1905 paper. While Einstein had an unsurpassed 'nose' for physics his nose for mathematics was, by his own admission, not so highly developed.
The work of Bachelier leads on to the work of Wiener (1923), Kolmogorov (1931), Itô(1950), and Black, Scholes and Merton (1973).
Bachelier was ahead of his time and his work was not appreciated in his lifetime. In the light of the enormous importance of international derivative exchanges (where the pricing is determined by financial mathematics) the remarkable pioneering work of Bachelier can now be appreciated in its proper context and Bachelier can now be given his proper place.
Article by: David O Forfar Heriot-Watt University.
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- Bachelier Finance Society (contains references [1] and [2])
- Cornell (Calcul de Probabilités)
- University of York
- University of Besancon
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Three more area athletes finalized their college plans this week. St. Peter-Marian High pitchers Zach Zona (UMass) and Jack Riley (Connecticut) and Marlboro High catcher Matt Buroni (Le Moyne) all signed national letters of intent to play baseball.
The Texas Rangers are going to defend the Alamo. The 20-year-old Alamodome, which has hosted NFL games, the NCAA Final Four and the NBA Finals, will host baseball for the first time when the Rangers and San Diego Padres play two exhibition games March 29-30. San Antonio is home to the Padres' Double-A affiliate, the Missions. To prepare the Alamodome for baseball, AstroTurf will build a 133,000 square-foot custom field. The right-field pole will be only 280 feet from home plate, and there will be a 16-foot-high wall in right. It will be 395 feet to straightaway center. Seating capacity will be 52,295.
The Atlanta Braves agreed to a two-year deal with backup catcher Gerald Laird. The 33-year-old Laird has appeared in the last two World Series. He played for the Detroit Tigers this past season and the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011. The Braves targeted Laird after David Ross, who backed up Brian McCann the past four seasons, signed with the Red Sox.
Ai Miyazato of Japan felt as if she couldn't miss yesterday. Her final putt dropped for an 8-under 64 and a one-shot lead in the season-ending Titleholders in Naples, Fla. Miyazato, who has won twice this year, shot the low round of the tournament, giving her a one-shot lead over U.S. Women's Open champion Na Yeon Choi.
Michael Campbell led a host of 40-somethings atop the leaderboard at a Hong Kong Open that lost defending champion Rory McIlroy when he failed to make the cut yesterday. The 43-year-old Campbell holed a 10-foot birdie at the last hole for a 6-under 64 that gave him a one-stroke lead at 9 under on the Fanling course at Hong Kong GC. McIlroy shot a 72 to finish at 5 over after two rounds. Four other over-40s were right behind Campbell.
Referee Tony Corrente has been fined one game check by the NFL for uttering some obscenities with his microphone on during a Nov. 4 game in Indianapolis between the Colts and Miami Dolphins. The fine was imposed by NFL officiating director Carl Johnson. A referee of Corrente's experience earns approximately $9,000 a game. In the fourth quarter of the game, Corrente inadvertently left his microphone open during a conference with members of the officiating crew.
Hall of Famer Mike Ditka has had a minor stroke, an ESPN producer said. ESPN's Seth Markman posted on Twitter that the former Chicago Bears coach and player fell ill yesterday and will not appear on the network's NFL shows this weekend. Markman wrote that Ditka "wanted everyone to know he's ok."
Jacksonville defensive tackle Terrance Knighton has been fined $25,000 by the NFL for making helmet-to-helmet contact with Colts quarterback Andrew Luck, who was defenseless at the time. The hit came in Indianapolis' victory Nov. 8 at Jacksonville and negated an interception by Aaron Ross. Jaguars safety Dawan Landry was fined $10,000 for a fourth-quarter hit on Luck that made contact to the head and neck area after Luck declared himself down by sliding feet first. Fined $21,000 were 49ers defensive lineman Ray McDonald for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Rams quarterback Sam Bradford last Sunday, and Minnesota linebacker Jasper Brinkley for a helmet hit on a defenseless Lions player.
Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo was fined $25,000 for a late hit on Buffalo running back C.J. Spiller in last weekend's game in Foxboro. Pats cornerback Alfonzo Dennard was fined $7,975 for hitting quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick out of bounds.
Eagles quarterback Michael Vick will miss tomorrow's game against the Washington Redskins due to the effects of a concussion. Rookie Nick Foles, who replaced Vick during the 38-23 loss to Dallas last Sunday, will get his first NFL start in a battle of 3-6 teams fighting to save their seasons.
The Chicago Bears said quarterback Jay Cutler will miss Monday's game at San Francisco because of a concussion. Jason Campbell is expected to start in his place against the 49ers. Cutler's status was in question after he sat out the second half of Sunday's loss to Houston. The Bears believe he was injured on a helmet-to-helmet hit late in the second quarter by the Texans' Tim Dobbins, who was fined $30,000 by the league.
San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh returned to work a day after undergoing a minor procedure for an irregular heartbeat. He returned to the field to lead San Francisco through yesterday's walk-through session and full practice in the afternoon. Harbaugh had his procedure Thursday.
Saint Louis men's basketball coach Rick Majerus will not return to the team because of his heart condition. The 64-year-old Majerus ended the school's 12-year NCAA Tournament drought last season with a 26-win team. Jim Crews, added to the coaching staff last season, is the school's interim coach.
Brad Keselowski, who goes into tomorrow's season finale race at Homestead, Fla., with a 20-point lead over five-time champion Jimmie Johnson and needs only to finish 15th or better to win his first Sprint Cup title, qualified third in his Penske Racing Dodge. Johnson was 10th in a Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.
Tomas Berdych beat Nicolas Almagro, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3, to give the Czech Republic a 1-1 tie with Spain after the opening singles matches in the Davis Cup final in Prague. Earlier, David Ferrer posted a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Radek Stepanek.
A meat raffle to benefit the Worcester State University baseball team will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Press Box Pub on Lincoln Street.


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New NASA images give fresh view of "Hand of God" nebula
The "Hand of God" nebula is nothing new.
In the short-term, it has been around since NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released photos of a pulsar wind nubula known as PSR B1509-58 (B1509 for short) in April 2009. In the longer term, even though scientists say it is a "young" nebula, it is 17,000 light years away.
This week, NASA released new photos of the famous nebula, captured by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).
A pulsar is the corpse of a star that died in a supernova explosion. The pulsar spins around at seven times per second, firing a particle wind into the material ejected in that explosion. These particles interact with magnetic fields around the material, causing it to glow with X-rays. (The pulsar itself can't be seen.)
In the 2009 photos, the nubula cloud looked like an open hand. But NASA notes:
"The hand actually shrinks in the NuSTAR image, looking more like a fist, as indicated by the blue color. The northern region, where the fingers are located, shrinks more than the southern part, where a jet lies, implying the two areas are physically different."
NASA said the red cloud at the end of the finger region is a different structure, called RCW 89. The agency says astronomers think the pulsar's wind is "heating the cloud, causing it to glow with lower-energy X-ray light."
The big question that scientists are still working on whether the whole structure is actually shaped like a hand or whether it's an optical illusion.


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Whoops, late again. So, first today, here's something to make you glad it's not summer.
Monday, 19 December 2011
24 Things I drew this month - Thing Eighteen
12 comments:
- Sparrow said...
Funny that, and a common sight here in Florida (so I avoid the beaches as much as possible)
Perhaps Mr. Burling on holiday?
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- Anonymous said...
I concur with Sparrow - it's an occupational hazard living down here.
- 12:52 pm
- Anonymous said...
Unfortunately, it is summer here. And what a stinker it is turning out to be! I expect to see many of your specimen out and about.
- 1:30 pm
- Anonymous said...
I just had horrible flashbacks to many of the people I saw on Weymouth beach. Traumatizing... o_O
- 1:31 pm
- Anonymous said...
That terrapin must be getting an eyeful. ;)
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- Cringing Wretch said...
Put me right off my breakfast.
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- Amandha said...
It's summer in HERE.
31ºC and getting hotter :P
How I envy you...
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- Annie said...
Have you ever seen Lilo & Stitch? He reminds me of that horribly sunburned man who kept dropping his ice cream cone (maybe this is how he got sunburned!).
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- Anonymous said...
holy hell, it´s santa and he´s balding!
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- Miss Pear said...
ARGH! IT'S SOUTHEND! (There will always, ALWAYS be gonks who think that sunbathing on a pebble beach on the Thames is not only acceptable, but compulsory.)
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- Anwyn en fa said...
I was already glad it's not Summer. This however, made me frightened of it.
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- Sasha said...
This one is my favorite. It is completely beautiful to me. Not partially, but completely. Big, saggy, hairy, gross... it's so much more fun to draw than pretty people. At least for me.
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Jason Prenoveau
posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 9:26 am
We have a hierarchical CFA model with 67 categorical indicators, 6 group factors, and a hierarchical general factor. This model fits very well in our Time 1 data. Unfortunately, due to the large nature of the combined model (134 observed categorical variables), our sample size is too small to enable us to estimate invariance in the usual manner.
We have an alternate strategy and were wondering if it seems valid. Instead of testing the structures together in the same model, we would validate the Time 1 structure in data at Time 2, by first examining configural invariance (how well does the Time 1 derived structure fit in Time 2 data when thresholds and factor loadings are freely estimated). Next, we would examine metric invariance by using Time 2 data, but fixing factor loadings and thresholds equal to values obtained in Time 1 data and examining model fit (as well as chi-square difference test of the configural invariant model versus the metric invariant model to determine if there is a significant difference in fit). If there were areas of strain, we could release some of these constraints and test for partial metric invariance.
Does this sound like a reasonable strategy for testing temporal invariance of our factor structure? Thank you for your thoughts.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 9:25 am
I don't think you can do better than what you suggest. You might also do it in the opposite direction.
Jason Prenoveau
posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 - 8:02 pm
Thank you for your reply. I conducted the analysis I had mentioned and was surprised to find that the metric invariant model (where I fixed all factor loadings and thresholds) actually had a LOWER chi-square value than the configural invariant model (where factor loadings and thresholds were free to vary). Chi-square dropped from 324 (with a CFI of 0.95 and RMSEA of 0.049) to 235 (CFI=0.96, RMSEA=0.057). It is just difficult to understand how fixing these loadings/thresholds results in a LOWER chi-squared value.
Also, the df only dropped from 169 (configural invariant) to 107 (metric invariant) even though I fixed 149 factor loadings (as well as many thresholds). Is this a function of how df are calculated in WLSMV?
Thank you for your help,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 6:15 am
You cannot compare the chi-square and degrees of freedom with WLSMV. Only the p-value should be interpreted. If you want to do difference testing, you need to use the DIFFTEST option.
Jason Prenoveau
posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 8:50 am
Sorry - I should have mentioned that I did use DIFFTEST and the result was significant (value=108, df=43, p=0.000). Since the chi-square value was reduced from the less restrictive model (loadings and thresholds free to vary) to the more restrictive model (fixed loadings and thresholds), I assumed the DIFFTEST result indicated a significant IMPROVEMENT in fit when the pathways were fixed. However, this is counter to what I expected, and what is usually seen: fixing (or equating) pathways typically results in a decrement in model fit.
So, are you indicating that despite the apparent DROP in chi-square (of about 90), the DIFFTEST value is indicating an INCREASE in chi-square (of 108) and the metric invariant model represents a significant decrement in model fit as we would expect? Or, is the DIFFTEST indicating the metric invariant model is a sig improvement (since visual inspection reveals chi-square dropping from the configural to metric invariant model, and the value of this drop is similar in magnitude to the DIFFTEST value)? Your help in interpreting these unexpected results is much appreciated! Thank you!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 10:37 am
With WLSMV you should not be making any interpretation based on the chi-square values and degrees of freedom including those given in the DIFFTEST results. It is only the p-values you should be looking at. If the p-value for the DIFFTEST results is less than .05, it means that the more restrictive model significantly worsens the fit of the model. If the p-value is greater than .05, it means that the more restrictive model does not significantly worsen the fit of the model.
Jason Prenoveau
posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 9:31 am
Great - thank you again for your speedy reply. I had a question with regards to reporting results from the DIFFTEST. In a manuscript would DIFFTEST results more accurately be expressed as delta chi-square or simply chi-square?
Thank you again for all of your help,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 9:39 am
I would report only the p-value for the reasons mentioned above.
Matthew Diemer
posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 7:41 am
I have a different wrinkle on testing temporal invariance that I was hoping for advice on.
We have two waves of panel data, where the same participants were surveyed at each wave but different indicators are available at Time 1 and Time 2.
So, I think it might be technically possible to assess whether temporal invariance holds, using only those indicators that are repeated at Time 1 and Time 2.
However, I'm not sure if this type of temporal invariance analysis tells you anything - does temporal invariance using a subset of indicators provide some evidence of temporal stability over time, but less evidence than the same set of indicators from the same participants at Time 1 and Time 2.
Or, is it simply not appropriate to assess temporal invariance for only a subset of indicators?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 9:18 am
This type of invariance is used a lot by the testing companies like ETS where the majority of items are repeated over time. I think the believability is related to how many items are repeated.
Matthew Diemer
posted on Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 1:44 pm
Thanks, Linda. I will look at what ETS and others have done for examples.
I'm not sure on this point - will we need to restructure the dataset for analyses of temporal invariance?
We already have the data in the more common wide format, but are unsure if they need to be restructured to long format (as in LGM).
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 2:54 pm
I would leave the data in the wide format. See the Topic 4 short course handout on the website. Multiple indicator growth is described starting on Slide 77. The first part of the example illustrates testing measurement invariance across time.
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Enroll in or hire us to teach our SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (SSAS) class in London United, Kingdom by calling us @303.377.6176. Like all HSG classes, SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (SSAS) may be offered either onsite or via instructor led virtual training. Consider looking at our public training schedule to see if it is scheduled: Public Training Classes
Provided there are enough attendees, SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (SSAS) may be taught at one of our local training facilities.
We offer private customized training for groups of 3 or more attendees.
Course Description
| In this course, you will learn how to use Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Analysis Services (SSAS) to design and implement OnLine Analytical
Processing (OLAP) cubes and data mining models to support Business
Intelligence (BI) solutions. This course includes concepts, procedures
and practices based on real-world experience giving both the novice and
experienced SQL Server 2008 developer the tools to build data cubes and
forecasting solutions. This course also provides information on
end-user tools including Microsoft Excel 2007, Office Visio 2007
Professional Edition, SQL Server Business Intelligence Development
Studio (BIDS) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integrated Services and
Reporting Services.
Course Length: 4 Days
Course Tuition: $2395 (US)
|This course does not require any prior experience with Analysis Server 2008. It is assumed that students have working experience with SQL Server 2005 or 2008; basic relational database concepts (e.g. tables, queries, and indexing); data transformation services; Excel 2007; and SharePoint Server 2007.
Course Outline
What is Microsoft Business Intelligence
OLAP Modeling
Using SSAS in BIDS
Intermediate SSAS
Advanced SSAS
Cube Storage and Aggregation
Introduction to MDX Queries
MDX Expressions
Introduction to Data Mining
SSAS Administration
Advanced Administration and Optimization
Introduction to SSAS Clients
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