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He writes his own ticket. How did he do it?
Vestiges of Seybold's past of running several trucks with multiple employees before becoming an independent.
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A view of Seybold's truck and branding.
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Seybold built up his business by maintaining excellent customer relations. Here, he is taking in a warranty.
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Much of Seybold's work is finding a payment card in a toolbox's top draw, opening it, collecting the money and making note of payment.
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Seybold uses Quickbooks to run customer payments, which he often does at designated times after payroll is run at one of his customer's shops.
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Even though customers often don't enter Seybold's truck, they're not necessarily off limits. Here, displays on the truck help make a sale.
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Seybold feels like his customers are also his close friends.
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A customers considering making a purchase on Seybold's truck.
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One of Seybold's accounts are mechanics in a repair shop on a military base.
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Johnny Seybold posing in front of his truck, busy setting up.
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A frigid New England morning seemingly sets the stage for a long and dreary day of going to dark and damp shops, hoping to make the sales needed to pay the bills. But this is not John Seybold's story.
He has every reason to be upbeat, because he has the right attitude and his customer base is his dependable meal ticket.
After years of operating a profitable franchise with five different trucks and four employees, he had a large pool of customers.
When it came to the time of his life when he wanted to tone things down, he kept all his "A" customers and operated independently out of one of his trucks in Chicopee, Mass.
This is the most compelling thing about Seybold: he has found a way to consistently turn a profit and genuinely love every second of it.
From franchisee to independent
Seybold began selling tools in 1980 after an eventful conversation with a tool distributor. "The conversation began when he told me he just bought a bigger house," Seybold explains. "I told him that he just bought a house, and then he corrected me that now he has an even bigger and better one. If he could be making all that money in the seventies just selling tools, I wanted in."
So Seybold interviewed with a tool franchise and bought a territory. Years of hard work resulted in an increasing amount of reliable clientele.
As Seybold perfected his craft, business boomed. In the mid-nineties he was offered the opportunity to become a franchise owner. He accepted and eventually purchased a second franchise, growing his business to five trucks with four employees.
But by the 2000s, business was changing. Demand shifted in favor of specialty tools easily obtainable through outside sources at a lower cost. Worse yet, his employees did not have the "sixth sense" to sniff out skips.
Furthermore, Seybold's life situation was also much different. His children were grown and he did not need to hustle like he once had. But he still enjoyed selling tools.
So, in 2007 Seybold became an independent. Instead of overstocking the essentials that everyone already has, he focused on specialty tools that are not for everyday use. This meant less warranties and less frustration. In lieu of paying several employees, stocking several trucks and dealing with too many skips and marginal customers, Seybold kept his most reliable customers, making his job profitable and enjoyable.
Business summed up in a payment card
Here's how a common day goes for Seybold: He arrives at a shop and usually does not park the truck too close. His truck does not figure into sales. Then Seybold walks into the shop, nonchalantly opens up his customer's toolbox and removes the payment card within. He simply collects the cash or he marks off the payment he will take off the customer's debit card. His customers welcome the ease of the process.
Seybold might have fewer customers now, but he still has a sizeable number of his best ones. He has a manageable 437 on the books in a route that covers 200 miles a week. Seybold will sell to anyone as long as they do not mind paying him a "fair" price (around a 35 percent mark-up) for what he is selling them.
Simply put, that service is warranties, availability and, in particular, financing. Seybold's services not only include selling tools, but also cashing paychecks for a modest cut. He purposely wants his customers to maintain balances with him, even modest ones as low as $6, but not so he can charge exorbitant interest. Seybold charges no interest for 90 days, and 1 percent interest beyond that point. (A fair and equitable term in Seybold's view would be 10 weeks.)
The reason for this is that it maintains an ongoing relationship with his clients. The more they see Seybold for whatever reason, the more likely they will buy a tool from him when they need it.
Being in the finance business, Seybold has a pulse on his customers' finances. "Sadly, most of the population lives paycheck to paycheck," he notes.
The majority of his customers use debit cards, which he keeps on file and charges using QuickBooks.
He runs payments when the payroll at certain shops goes through, usually right on his truck via wireless Internet. He will charge some customers on a Thursday afternoon, the majority on Friday morning, and other customers as late as Monday.
Seybold's collection tactics have one thing in common: they prevent the possibility of him ever having to directly ask for money.
The logic behind this is that it keeps Seybold as the "good guy" with his customers. Unless he is the first to draw payments from his customers' checking accounts, he can be stuck harassing his customers to add money to their accounts or double up their payments the next week.
Some customers always avoid returning to the vendor to whom they owe money. So, by making sure he is paid first, Seybold is never the bad guy.
This leads to customers increasingly using their discretionary tool spending with him as opposed to other tool vendors.
Wise collections practices, including keeping tabs on customer paychecks and the use of payment cards, keeps business relations cordial and consistent. This sort of training of his customer base has made the recession less of an issue to Seybold than it would otherwise be.
Being a 'good guy' but still making the sale
Seybold is friends with many of his customers. He goes on their Facebook accounts, attends family functions like baptisms, goes on trips with his motorcycle or to a race, and swaps stories. This is genuine Seybold doing what he loves with his customers. In fact, Seybold is not overtly a salesman. His technique might be what some consider "passive aggressive."
Seybold is not pushy. He might walk in holding two or three "specials," such as an axle popper for removing axles without using a "fork" that might rip the boots. If his customers are not interested, he simply asks if there is anything specific they are looking for.
Seybold's truck also does not play a big role in his selling strategy. Customers rarely step foot in it. It lacks bright colors and the organization that some trucks have. The truck is purposely not a dramatic sales tool.
This sort of nonchalant attitude gives the sense to Seybold's customers that he simply looks out for them, and in turn, the customers look out for him and police each other. That way, when a customer has a legitimate need, they trust that "Johnny" is looking out for them and is being fair. Most of his sales are made by technicians approaching him. He claims he sold two A/C machines in one week last summer not because he was pushing them, but because his customers needed them and wanted to give him the sale.
That is not to say that Seybold does not have a few tricks up his sleeves. If he hears that a customer is interested in a tool, he will often just buy it and present it to the customer. The customer's response typically sounds like, "I don't remember ordering that." Then Seybold responds: "But you have expressed interest in it!" Most of the time, this results in a purchase.
Seybold's customers also have been trained to take advantage of specials.
"Oftentimes, they will not want to buy something on clearance, so I say, 'Fine, don't buy it.' Then, they need it a few days later. Now the next time I say 'Fine, don't buy it,' they are quicker to buy the tool, because they are afraid of that happening again," says Seybold.
Some parting wisdom
Everything Seybold does is predicated upon doing right by the customer. "I see these people every week," he points out. "They are not customers, they're like family."
This is why Seybold plays by his own rules: Always tell the truth, don't upsell something the customer does not need, and genuinely care for the customer's needs. If he does this, he can ask for a fair profit and do so without a hassle. His customers know this and they do not mind.
So it is truer now than ever that Seybold loves what he does. He deals with who he wants and he does it his way.
"What if today is your last day?" says Seybold. "Enjoy it. Smile. Laugh." That's easy to do when you can make an honest day's pay by playing by your own rules.


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Imperfect competition in the fresh tomato industry
In this paper, we analyse the market power of the retail industry in the French tomato market. Following the methods developed in the New Empirical Industrial Organization, we develop a structural model of this industry. The analysis is based on detailed data on final consumption and prices at both shipper and consumer levels for two types of tomatoes in France. The structural model is composed of a system of demand equation and supply equation. Supply equation includes a term that represents the market power of the retail sector. We use different models of demand in order to test the robustness of our results. We show that i) elasticity of demand varies during the year ii) the retail sector exercise only a "moderate" market power iii) the estimated mark-up of the retail sector varies from 0 to about 0.13 €/kg depending on the period iv) the mark-up is thus small (3% in average) as compared to the consumer price which is mainly explained by cost of production. We conclude to a moderate exercise of market power of the retail sector in this sector.
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I do. Heading to the middle of the eighth inning, I'm forced to leave my seat to pick up my kid at 10:00. By the time I walk through the stadium, I've heard the roar and see Jamey Carroll standing on third base with no outs and the third through fifth batters coming up.
If I didn't have to pick up my kid in 10 minutes, I SWEAR I would've stuck around. I mean – you know me by now. Is there anyone MORE superstitious?
Four blocks away from Target Field I say to The Voice of Reason™, "Have you heard a roar yet? I haven't."
Me: (Heavy sigh.)
One can frame this game a lot of ways. I'm sure the Boston papers will frame it as a Cody Ross redemption game. And if the Twins third and fourth hitters would have managed to do anything remotely similar to what one expects from the eighth and ninth hitters, it would have been a different game, and a different column.
But they didn't. And it isn't. Check that – SO it isn't.
I can't talk too much about those criticat at-bats. I didn't see them live. I saw replays of the swings. Apparently, Josh Willingham hit the ball hard but lined out to the third baseman.
Joe Mauer swung weekly at an off-speed pitch and grounded out to first base. The at-bat looks worse because of how poor a hit it was – a dribbling play up the first base line. Of course, it was an off-speed pitch. On a full count, one might expect a pitcher to challenge a hitter, but with two bases open, why would he? He threw a 75-mph-pitch that Mauer had not yet seen and that was it. I want to come down on Mauer – I want to come down on everyone after this loss – but I can see what happened.
A few more notes about the game…
Capping Off A Loss
Hey, at least Matt Capps hasn't blown a Save (capital S) yet - just a game.
Is that a cheap shot? Sure, but I don't mean it to Capps. I mean it to the Twins, who seem to think that once a randome team sprinkles a guy with Magic Closer Dust (capital MCD), they're forever a different guy. Capps now has four strikeouts in seven innings, which is under the league average, especially for relievers, but about average for him. (Correction: He actually has two strikeouts, which is less than half of his career rate.) To his credit, he hasn't walked a guy. But he's given up seven hits, which is about average for both him and your average major league pitcher. And, worse of all for a closer, he's given up two home runs, which is about three times the average rate for a pitcher.
Hey, it's small sample size. It doesn't mean much.
Except that home runs were Capps' soft spot last year and have been every year he's struggled. He basically matched his career averages in all categories last season – except he gave up a couple of extra home runs. Which is what turned him from a below average closer into a really terrible closer.
Which one MIGHT have anticipated, if he wasn't all glittery with that MCD.
Oooh, sparkly.
The Other Story
Minus that eighth inning debacle and a ninth inning home run, here's what the game story would have included…
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Large JM dissectum...
A local nursery has this permanent Crimson Queen-like dissectum. It's rather large -- about 7-8' tall and 10' wide. The trunk is about 5" in diameter. How do I get mine to be like that? Wait 30 years?
Time and varietal selection.
It looks like it may be one of the selections of palmatum that has very narrow lobes. Without seeing it close-up I can not even guess as to an ID. I am not the best on getting them to a cultivar but, it is not an exact science no matter who is doing it.
Other than the time and selection factors the only other thing is to plant your specimen in the correct light, in good soil, fertilize and water properly.
Patience is indeed a virtue when it comes to getting large Japanese maples; it is also a necessity.
How do I get mine to be like that? Wait 30 years?
At least :-)) That is a very mature tree. And any dissectum has the potential to achieve a similar size in time, at least with regards to spread. Ultimate height is dependent primarily on graft location.
There IS a market for large, specimen-sized JM's much like the one pictured. But be prepared to pay, and handsomely, for the time involved in achieving that mature size. As well as the added expenses involved in transporting and planting such a large tree. Most of us are forced to resort to exercising the patience hortus refers to :-) However, if well sited and given good care, many cultivars will grow more rapidly than one expects but it still takes many years to achieve that mature size.
If you live in the right zone, they grow very quickly. I would hazard a guess that in the right location, you can get one that size in under 15 years, assuming it is something like Inabe Shidari.
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Oakland City Planning Commission STAFF REPORT Case File Number CM01-342 November 14, 2001 #2 Location: 2777 Foothill Blvd. Proposal: To convert a vacant convalescent hospital into Transitional Housing facility serving approximately sixty homeless veterans. Applicant: Irwin Goodwin Owner: Michael Marr Case File Number: CM01-342 Planning Permits Required: Major Conditional Use Permit General Plan: Urban Residential Zoning: C-30, District Thoroughfare Commercial Zone Environmental Determination: Exempt 15301 State CEQA Guidelines; Minor Alterations Historic Status: Non-historic property (NHP); post 1945 Service Delivery District: IV Fruitvale/Central Hills City Council District: 5 For further information: Contact Case Planner Chris Candell at 510 238-6986 SUMMARY This application was first heard at the City Planning Commission meeting of October 3, 2001. The City Planning Commission opened the public hearing, took testimony from the applicant and the public and continued the public hearing to November 14, 2001. The applicant was directed to host a community meeting to give the applicant an opportunity to present his project and determine whether issues of concern could be resolved. The applicant conducted a community meeting on Thursday, October 25, 2001, at the site of the proposed transitional housing project at 2777 Foothill Boulevard. Forty-five people attended the meeting. In attendance were residents of a wide spectrum of the surrounding community. Many of the neighborhood concerns were alleviated through discussion of the project. The applicant is willing to modify his proposal to meet remaining concerns regarding public involvement, blight, and security. However, staff has received a petition and letters from Oakland Community Organizations and The Unity Council who continues to be opposed to the project. There is a large number of Residential Care, Service-Enriched Permanent Housing, Transitional Housing, and Emergency Shelter Residential Activities in the Council district where the project is located. Staff has reviewed data related to the number and distribution of this type of facility in the area. Overall there appears to be a higher concentration of this type of facility in Oakland when compared to the rest of Alameda County. Within Oakland, there is one other area in the Downtown/North Oakland area with a comparable concentration of such facilities. In other areas of Oakland, such facilities are more dispersed. Within Council District 5, which covers the Fruitvale District, there are 18 facilities providing some type of residential or non-residential alcohol/drug rehabilitation services. The nearest known licensed facility to the proposed facility is about 1500 feet away. There are serious issues related to this project both for and against the project. Therefore, staff recommends that the City Planning Commission open the public hearing to take any additional testimony and direct staff to prepare appropriate findings. #2 Oakland City Planning Commission November 14, 2001 Case File Number CM01-342 Page 2 Background The applicant proposes to re-use an existing, vacant convalescent hospital to house up to 60 residents of a homeless veterans program based in Menlo Park. Residents are recruited from the streets and shelters of the entire San Francisco Bay Area and placed into various treatment and job training programs in Menlo Park and Palo Alto. The new facility would represent an expansion of the existing housing program in Menlo Park. Most of the treatment is administered by the Veterans Administration program. The primary function of the facility in Oakland would be used to house and feed the veterans during the evening. The veterans would be transported by van to off-site treatment locations. A few veterans will remain on site during the day while waiting for openings in programs. There will be a maximum of 6 staff members on site. The cook and director of the program will live on site. Veterans can use the central courtyard for outdoor recreation; no residents will be allowed outside on the sidewalk. The attached staff report describes the program in more detail. At the first public hearing there were a number of supporters of the program including members of the Oakland Police Department and graduates of the program. There were also a number of residents who expressed strong concerns about security, public outreach/noticing/input, blight, and staff training. The City Planning Commission directed the applicant to conduct additional public outreach and continued the item. Since the City Planning Commission meeting of October 3, 2001, staff has received one petition in opposition and two letters in opposition to the project from Oakland Community Organizations and The Spanish Speaking Unity Council. The main concerns are the overconcentration of transitional housing programs in the community, the desire that the site could serve local needs better, and concerns that the proposed facility or future tenants use of the facility will cause problems similar to previous uses of the site. KEY ISSUES AND IMPACTS Neighborhood Concerns Meeting notices were sent by the applicant to the 106 people on the City mailing list plus door to door flyers over a four block radius which included over 350 homes and telephone poles. The flyers were translated into 4 languages: English, Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese. Flyers and brochures were also distributed to the local schools and the Spanish Speaking Unity Council. Flyers were also attached to telephone poles in the area. The meeting on October 26, 2001 was attended by 45 residents and business owners. The meeting was translated into Spanish. The community expressed the following concerns: Community Outreach and Public Participation Security, preventing adverse interaction between residents of program and neighbors/children Staff Training Post Program Relocation; where do residents go when they graduate from program? Blight The applicant responded to each of these concerns and is willing to adopt the conditions discussed below. Community Outreach and Public Participation The community expressed a strong desire for ongoing communication and participation in the decision making process of the program. Oakland City Planning Commission November 14, 2001 Case File Number CM01-342 Page 3 The applicant agreed to: Place a suggestion box outside the building for quick informal or after hours communication. Institute an open door policy for people to drop by the business office. Produce a quarterly newsletter to be distributed to the schools and surrounding neighbors. Have community representation at regular Homeless Veterans Emergency Housing (HVEH) program board meetings on at least a quarterly basis. Community representation would include, at a minimum: a PTA member, staff from each of the local schools, and a community member. Security Residents were concerned with so many school children in the area that there would be an opportunity for negative interaction between the residents and children. The applicant explained how the residents live in a controlled environment. They are transported on and off site and are not free to roam the streets. An internal courtyard allows residents to go outside while on the grounds and they would never be allowed to hang out in front of the building. Violent offenders and those with sex offender records will not be allowed in the program and are screened through a nationwide database. Any violence or threats of violence will be grounds for removal from the program. At the current location in Menlo Park the applicant operates this program at a facility with five schools within a one mile radius and have developed programs where children from the schools visit and interact with the veterans. See attached letter regarding school programs. The applicant has further noted that this program is closely monitored and funded by federal agencies. If performance is poor, funding can be cut. Doorways are limited and can be monitored by alarms. Evening bed checks will ensure that residents stay within the building. Residents that violate any regulations will be processed out of the program in Menlo Park and not allowed to return. Facility staff will monitor loitering in front of the facility and will contact police as appropriate. Staff Training Staff of the former occupants of the facility were the cause of much of the negative activity at the site. This has made neighbors apprehensive regarding any new program and the staffing of such a program. The program is funded and monitored by federal agencies. All staff undergoes a rigorous background check for criminal records. Staff receives ongoing training and must meet federal Veterans Administration standards. Post Program Relocation Generally, residents of the program do not return to Oakland as job training is on the peninsula and residents graduate this program and move to transitional housing and eventually permanent housing and jobs on the peninsula. Success rate is about 75-80% with dropouts being referred to other programs or processed out in the peninsula region, not in Oakland. Blight The applicant agreed to remove the iron bar fence from the front of the building and the bars on the windows as well as eliminate generally blighted conditions, and to remove litter in front of and beyond the property lines for twenty feet. Oakland City Planning Commission November 14, 2001 Case File Number CM01-342 Page 4 Overconcentration Oakland has a greater overall concentration of drug/alcohol rehab programs when compared to Alameda County.1Overall twenty nine percent of the drug/rehab programs in Alameda County are in Oakland's City Council District 5. However, this Council district contains only about seven percent of Alameda County residents. Within Oakland, there is one other area in the Downtown/North Oakland area that has a comparable concentration of such facilities, clustered along San Pablo Avenue and near Pill Hill. In other areas of Oakland, such facilities are more dispersed. Within Council District 5, which covers the Fruitvale District, there are 18 facilities providing alcohol or drug rehabilitation services. Most of the programs in City Council District 5 are located along International Blvd. with a few scattered elsewhere on Fruitvale, 38th Avenue and 13th Avenue. There is not an overconcentration of this type of facilities as defined in Oakland's ordinance because there are no programs within 300 feet of the project site, as per the guidelines for Transitional Housing. There are no licensed programs located within one quarter mile (1320 feet). The nearest site is located about 1500 feet away on Fruitvale Avenue. There are six facilities located within one half mile, five of which are clustered along International Blvd. No other programs for veterans exist anywhere in Oakland. See the attached maps of facilities. Performance of this Facility in its Current Location Performance of this facility in its current Menlo Park location has been excellent. Leslie Freeman, director of Veteran Affairs in Menlo Park, indicates that the program has been trouble free and that the applicant, Irwin Goodwin, has been willing and able to make changes to resolve all issues that have arisen. She reports that there have been no significant security incidents since the program was established. Potential Future Tenants The City Planning Commission inquired as to whether the use permit may be granted exclusively for this specific operator. A use permit may not be granted for an operator, but instead must be granted for a specific use. The use permit can be restricted to the operation of transitional housing for veterans that are transported to job training and other services off-site. Conclusion This proposal poses a very difficult land use issue, in that it involves a much needed program, which is well established and has a good track record, seeking to expand in a community that already has a significant number of Transitional Housing type drug and alcohol facilities. There is a significantly higher concentration of similar facilities (drug/alcohol rehab) in the Fruitvale area than in other parts of Alameda County and the rest of Oakland, mostly clustered along International Boulevard. However, the nearest facility to the subject site is over one quarter mile away. 1 About 75% of the licensed programs in Alameda County are in Oakland. All the figures in this discussion include both residential (live in) and non-residential programs unless otherwise stated. Oakland City Planning Commission November 14, 2001 Case File Number CM01-342 Page 5 The applicant has a good track record in its present location and is quite responsive to the neighbors' concerns. The applicant provides a much needed regional service in the process of rehabilitating homeless veterans into productive citizens and helping them get the care they are entitled to. Some of the homeless veterans in the program come from the streets of Oakland and the East Bay. The applicant has strict performance standards and limits for his clients. No sex offenders or veterans with violent records will be admitted to the program. Residents violating performance standards will be processed out of the program in Menlo Park. The applicant has met with neighbors and agreed to specific actions to alleviate concerns of those present. At the same time there are continuing concerns by community members that this is not the most appropriate site for this use and that a program serving the immediate community would be more appropriate. In addition, there are still outstanding issues related to the performance of future tenants, security, traffic, parking, and appearance. RECOMMENDATIONS: Staff recommends that the City Planning Commission take public testimony, weigh the evidence, and direct staff to prepare appropriate findings to approve or deny the proposal, to be brought forward on December 5, 2001. Prepared by: Chris Candell Planner II Approved by: GARY PATTON Deputy Director of Planning and Zoning Approved for forwarding to the City Planning Commission: LESLIE GOULD Director of Planning and Zoning Oakland City Planning Commission November 14, 2001 Case File Number CM01-342 Page 6 ATTACHMENTS: A. Maps of nearby residential and non-residential, state licensed and not state licensed facilities, and facilities list B. Previous staff report (October 3, 2001). C. Letter dated October 24, 2001 from the Department of Veterans Affairs D. Letter dated October 30, 2001 from Oakland Community Organizations E. Letter dated November 5, 2001 from The Unity Council F. Petition in opposition to the project
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Rock poked fun at the British star during the ceremony, quipping, "Who is Jude Law? Why is he in every movie I have seen in the last four years. He's in everything?"
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Lupe Fiasco posts new song
Much better than the first single. Not much hope for 'Lasers' though.
great song. not too sure why you would say you like a song then say you dont have hopes for the new album.
And I'm not too sure why you would say that....? You have to have hopes for the album when you like a song? No comprende amigo.
Lasers will rule.
March 8th people... March 8th.
Not bad at all. I pretty excited for the month of March
and he didn't really say he liked it, just that it was better than his first
Lasers will rule.
March 8th people... March 8th.[2]
Lasers will rule.[3]
As for this song, it actually sounds like something you might find on Eminem's 'Recovery', except with slightly worse flow and much better lyrics.
Or perhaps "The Evening News, Pt. II"
Our Lady of Guadalupe Fiasco.
Lots of good music coming out in the next couple months. Pumped for Lasers.
okay song. really not as excited as i want to be for this album.
lasers will rule. [4]
great song. raping the repeat button. we are laserrrss.
Pretty good, I've only heard Food & Liquor though, but I thought that was fucking fantastic.
Yes! Can't wait for March, so much good shit is gonna be released.
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His mixtapes are the best. If you haven't heard the song "Failure", do it.
Easily the most lyrically complex sound out right now, closely followed by Lupe The Killer
probably gonna be decent
loved it, especially the lyrical content.. fuck the new world order!!!
this is a fucking great song
lupe is one of the few mc's i can stand
Quite enjoyed that one.
So good...
I wasn't too keen on his first single from this album but I might hold off and pick it up anyway if it seems alright. I love Food & Liquor.
Better than his first single.
I checked this out the other day. Was rad on first listen. Bring on Lasers.
such a good song. So pumped for the new album. I wasn't sure about "The Show Goes On". It was alright, but...this one is soo good.
Love both singles form the album so far, going to be dope!
no no no no. noooooooooooo. NOOOOOOOOOO. really hope this doesn't reflct the style of the entire album.........
scratch that i thought this was just an old post about the show goes on. havenst heard this yet
I've warmed up to "The Show Goes On." I didn't like it at first, but the more I listened to it, the more it got stuck in my head, so now I dig it. Not as much as any of the other songs I've heard, though. "Words I Never Said" really is the best thing I've heard from this, though.
I have two concerns for this album: one, that the majority of the songs will have that ass-smelling cheesy synth like so many popular rap songs have nowadays, and two, that they'll all have the same tone, structure and beat.
"Better than his first single."
really hope you mean the first Lasers single and not Kick, Push.
Ordering information and Tracklist - http://lupefiasco.com/lasers/
1. Letting Go (Feat. Sarah Green)
2. Words I Never Said (Feat. Skylar Grey)
3. Till I Get There
4. I Don't Wanna Care Right Now (Feat. MDMA)
5. Out Of My Head (Feat. Trey Songz)
6. The Show Goes On
7. Beautiful Lasers, (Two Ways) (Feat. MDMA)
8. Coming up (Feat. MDMA)
9. State Run Radio (Feat. Matt Mahaffey)
10. Break The Chain (Feat. Eric Turner & Sway)
11. All Black Everything
12. Never Forget You (Feat. John Legend)
march 8th is fucking awesome music day
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Oddly enough, I figured the song "I'm Beamin'" would end up on his album called 'Lasers'...but I guess it didn't make the cut.
Seems a very short tracklist for a hip-hop album, which I suppose is ultimately a good thing.
^^ Its on the Deluxe edition as a bonus track
Lol, this is meh compared to Kick, Push. Talking bout Show Goes On.
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Last Oct (2011) I made my first mead. It was half of a cyser from page 168 of K Schramm's The Compleat Meadmaker:
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.5lb brown sugar
.5lb raisins
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Since november? Probably fine to bottle it then (of course assuming that the FG has been steady for a while). Definitely not too long, some people bulk age meads for up to (and over) a year before bottling.
By flippy bottles, do you mean the Grolsch style ones? If so then they are fine
I would probably stabalise it first with camden and sorbate just in case, but after that if its clear id say go ahead and bottle.
Thanks, it's good to know I'm on the right track.
Machalel: Yep, that's exactly the type of bottle I have on hand. My son is US Air Force in Germany and he sent me a few boxes of his empties.
Insomniac: I used camden tabs with my first couple of batches of cider (my wife's new favorite drink ) and I have two words--Head Ache! The last couple of batches have been made without it and there's no problem. So, with that in mind, I'm leery of using of using it. Sorbate though I have no problems with. Is it really needed with mead if the FG is stable? I have more experience brewing beer than making mead so just asking. And if it's not totally still and has a little residual carbonation, that's ok with me.
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That is so cool.
I already knew the content, but the video is pretty well put together.
Incidentally, a day or two ago the video had an incorrect statement of what the Continuum Hypothesis was, which has since been fixed. You can still see evidence of this older version if you hover over the 6:16 mark in the seek bar.
Very well done video.
Yes. This is why I enjoy being a mathematician.
After subjecting it to this video on an early Friday morning, my brain doesn't like me no more. X_X
It's not a coincidence that the father of set theory, Georg Cantor, spent a considerable portion of his time in hospital for mental illness…
(TBH, it wasn't just the craziness one would expect necessary to first come up with the infinity concepts; there was also a considerable amount of depression, personal tragedy and professional difficulties).
Gottlob Frege, another late-19th-early 20th c. pioneer in the (modern) foundations of mathematics and logic, is said to have gone into a permanent depressive state following Bertrand Russell's telling him about the antinomy now called by Russell's name. Frege's wife died at about the same time, so his illness may really have been brought on by a double disaster.
I had a physics professor who said the practical definition of infinity was "big enough". As an example, he gave a camera company (may have been Kodak, but I don't recall) that used a stop sign several hundred feet down the road to calibrate the "infinite" focus setting on their lenses. So for them, infinity was only a few hundred feet.
The good prof was apparently talking about the infinity out at the right-hand end of the real line, rather than the set-theoretic infinite cardinals or ordinals. Given the resolving power of the optics of the cameras and the inhomogeneous atmosphere, a few hundred feet was probably good enough. For mathematics, not so good.
That's nice work, and a good introduction to how our finite minds can comprehend the infinite, or at least some kinds of infinities.
Georg Cantor named the infinite cardinalities (set sizes) aleph-0, aleph-1, aleph-2, … I've seen beth-0, beth-1, beth-2, … for the sequence of power sets (sets of all subsets), starting with beth-0 = aleph-0.
Beth-0 / aleph-0 is the cardinality not only of integers, but also finite-length lists of integers, rational numbers, algebraic numbers (solutions of polynomial equations with integer coefficients), computable numbers (numbers that can be approximated to arbitrary precision with a finite number of steps), and definable numbers (numbers that satisfy certain sorts of finite-length conditions).
Beth-1 is the cardinality of the real numbers, finite-length lists of real numbers, and continuous functions of real numbers onto real numbers.
Beth-2 is the cardinality of *all* functions of real numbers onto real numbers.
I've yet to see any comparable interpretaiton of beth-3 or other higher beth numbers.
Beth-0 / aleph-0 is the cardinality not only of integers, but also finite-length lists of integers
Sorry, what exactly do you mean by this? Because if you are using "finite-length list" in the way I'm thinking of it, aleph_0 is definitely not the cardinality of a finite-length list of integers.
I think he means the cardinality of the set of finite-length lists of integers, not the cardinality of any given element of that set.
Aha! This is why I asked. I can see that now.
That's what I meant – sets of all finite-length lists of integers.
However, a countably-infinity-long list of integers has cardinality beth-1.
Aleph-0, beth-0 — countable infinity.
Beth-1 — continuum or C.
Continuum hypothesis: aleph-1 = beth-1
Aleph-1, incidentally, is the cardinality of the set of all countable ordinals; there are provably no infinite cardinals between aleph-0 and this number, even without the axiom of choice; with the axiom of choice you can make the stronger statement that aleph-1 is the smallest cardinal greater than aleph-0.
Beth-3 would be (assuming the axiom of choice) the cardinality of the set of all operators O : F -> F where F is the set of functions over the reals. (In general the set of functions from X to Y is Y^X; (beth-2)^(beth-2) = (2^(beth-1))^(beth-2) = 2^((beth-1)*(beth-2)) = 2^(beth-2) = beth-3). I can't think of any more "natural" sets of this size.
One might be tempted to wonder how big the collection of all aleph-* numbers (or all ordinals) is: in fact the answer is that it's so big that it cannot be a set, only a proper class, so there is no way to define its size as a cardinal number. (The "n" in aleph-n or beth-n isn't restricted to natural numbers, it can be any ordinal, even uncountable ones.)
Thanks people for these explanations. Thanks for so rudely rubbing my nose into my helpless ignorance. This will not stand, ya know. I will do something about it.
I like infini
The end of the video should have specified that the unanswerability of a question in mathematics is relative to the assumed axiom set, like ZFC. We can always choose to go to stronger systems that actually can answer many of the unanswerable questions in weaker systems, though no matter how strong we make a system it will always have the weakness of incompleteness (either that or it will be inconcistent, via Godel).
Readers may be interested in a couple of questions I asked on MSE, namely how we know of the existence of an Aleph_1 (the very first cardinal greater than Aleph_0, the latter of which is the size of the natural numbers 1,2,3,…), and if we can put a bound on the number of infinities that may exist between Aleph_0 and the cardinality of the continuum (i.e. all the real numbers).
(Url: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/46833/how-do-we-know-an-aleph-1-exists-at-all)
Thank you for pointing that out. I don't know this stuff very well, but I felt a bit uneasy about that part the video.
Judging by what the articles on Wikipedia and Wolfram math world say there seems to be disagreement over whether or not there is anything meaningful left to discover about the Continuum hypothesis.
One thing about the initial post, my current understanding of infinity is that, strictly speaking, it's not a number. It basically just means an unbounded set. You can say that a real number line goes to infinity, but there's no point anywhere on that line that infinity lies. It's not a number itself.
Like, I cheat on the game Battletoads with a Game Genie code to get "infinite lives". There's not enough RAM in the NES to actually store an infinite number if it existed. All it means is lives are not limited any more. They won't decrease on my death. Lives are now unbounded.
The whole concept of cardinality blew my mind. Not just in how fundamental it was, but in the fact that it's literally one of the easiest things to teach someone about "higher mathematics" I've ever read about. I usually just scratch my head at mathematical proofs and wonder "when did they start using triangles in equations?", but I don't even need to know basic arithmetic to get this proof of non-matching infinities. The only concepts needed are how to make a grid, how to make a list, and how to count. I showed kids this and they got it instantly. It's that simple and that powerful.
So, why isn't this being taught in school? I for one was never taught set theory in my math classes. My mathematics stopped at algebra, but that's a failing of having gone to a private school that wasn't exactly very challenging.
A more expansive and historically aware perspective is that what exactly constitutes 'numbers' has shifted and been reinterpreted over time. The integers just happen to be in the intersection of a wide array of all sorts of aspects that numbers may have – information that tracks size, order, length, arithmetic, topology – and as we explore outwards we find many things that do not fit all of these descriptions simultaneously. Rationals, algebraics, number fields, reals, complex numbers (quaternions, etc.), extended reals or the Riemann sphere, surreals, p-adics and adeles, ordinals and cardinals, etc. In most cases you will lose at least something, be it commutativity, subtraction, order, divisibility, etc. There is a zoo full of exotic numbery structures. So we may very well say infinity is a number (or infinities, more properly).
Set theory isn't very standard subject material because (a) the concepts and notation of elementary set theory are usually squeezed into many other courses already (any serious analysis, modern algebra, or topology class at least), and (b) modern set theory has little practical value outside of special theoretical interest to researching mathematicians and students. At least with many other forms of pure mathematics we can cite, say, theoretical physics or cryptography as applications, but not so much with set theory. We may cite maybe fuzzy set theory for its statistical value, pure logic related theory for its computer science value, and set theory at large for value in being a foundation for mathematics (like an assembly language) and for sparking a lot of philosophy of mathematics intrigue, but things like infinite cardinals and the continuum hypothesis are largely irrelevant to anything of the 'real world.'
The big problem with "infinity" is the fact that the word has so many legitimate meanings inside math: there are the infinite cardinals and ordinals, the "+/- infinities" that you adjoin to the real numbers to do measure theory and probability, the point at infinity that gives you the Riemann sphere, the line at infinity for projective planes, etc.–and then there are the uses of the word in theological woo. To put the kind of elementary fun stuff that this post deals with into K-12, you'd have to take stuff out that college-bound kids need–and many of them already need remediation as freshpeople. Now imagine what the fundies would do with this material–they already don't like biology, and wait until they find out that there are controversies in the foundations of math–no, my head hurts already.
Well I learned something new here. Thanks for the info.
My mathematical skills are rather lacking. The thing is, learning just a little basic set theory helped my critical thinking skills quite a bit, and for that reason alone seems valuable to teach at the lower levels.
Also, there are some lulls in many class rooms a few very basic lessons could be put into. I don't think it would require so much time that anything of great importance would need be cut. I mean, how about gym? Do we really need that?
… learning just a little basic set theory helped my critical thinking skills quite a bit, and for that reason alone seems valuable to teach at the lower levels.
I agree, and so did the "New Math" movement of the 1950s-60s. For various reasons–IMHO the most crucial being that the K-12 teachers (or the professors of education) thought that it was not important for them to *understand* the new material–that movement ended in a fiasco. Many professional mathematicians have become traditionalists about K-12 math ed because so many tries at improvement have not worked out well–and don't get them started on "math experts" in the ed-school establishment.
I mean, how about gym? Do we really need that?
I managed to avoid it, no small feat (heh heh).
Wow, two blogs about set theory in one day! Apparently certain religious fundamentalists have a problem with set theory and unanswerable problems.
It's a good video.
One minor point. Toward the end, he says that all research mathematicians accept these ideas. That's not quite right. The constructivists and intuitionists don't accept them.
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