While many cherished technical signals have not been up to snuff over the past few years, trendline analysis of the PHLX Semiconductor index, known by its symbol SOX, continued to be reliable. Its trading action over the past week has broken several lines and patterns, leaving severe technical damage behind.
Although snapback rallies such as the one seen early Wednesday will occur, it is going to take quite a while to repair what has been broken on the charts.
Using the iShares PHLX Semiconductor exchange-traded fund (ticker: SOXX ) as a proxy, we can see a completed and very clear double top pattern in place (see Chart 1). The "M" shaped pattern contains a stall in the rally in July, a pullback to an August low, and then a failed attempt to set a significantly higher high in September.
A move below the August low is the sell signal, and on Oct. 10 that happened in a very big way. Prices jumped lower to break below the bull market trendline drawn from the November 2012 low and the 200-day moving average. Volume soared to complete a very serious breakdown.
Steep selloffs in any stock or ETF can often be buying opportunities. But when the single session damage is nearly 7%, as it was that day, and multiple technical formations are smashed, the damage is too much for even the staunchest bulls. The ETF and sector will need a lot of time to heal.
Within the group, we can see similar charts in many of its largest component stocks. And even those that made sizable comebacks Wednesday, such as NXP Semiconductors ( NXPI ), trading nearly 8% higher at one point, the technical damage is clear. NXP makes radio processors for car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication.
Shares of Microchip Technology ( MCHP ) were crushed on Oct. 10, falling 11% after the maker of memory and micro-controller semiconductors cut its revenue forecast and warned that the overall chip sector may be in for a bumpy road. Social media lit up with comments as this warning was blamed for the breakdown in the entire sector.
It is clear from the chart that the damage was severe on several levels (see Chart 2). Not only was near-term support broken, but the stock quickly hit a 52-week low and is about to spark a downside moving average crossover. While some will label the latter as a "death cross," I would rather look at it as the culmination of a yearlong topping process. And some chart watchers will also spot the completed head-and-shoulders pattern in progress since March.
Finally, I like to look for stocks in a sector that are so far gone that they are already washed out. Investors with a more speculative constitution should take a peek at Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ), which reports earnings Thursday. AMD has been in a bear market for three years, and it broke down in September from its most recent attempt at a comeback. In fact, its September and October losses have been huge on a percentage basis, as the stock now trades in single digits.
But it is now extremely oversold according to momentum indicators, and its 200-day average is 44% above current trading (see Chart 4). That is a huge spread to what has been an average price of sorts for the past year. A snapback rally and reversion at least a bit closer to the mean would not be a surprise, depending on how earnings look later this week.
Caveat emptor in an overall weak market and even weaker sector. But unless the stock is headed to zero, it could be a good risk for those who can tolerate it.
Semiconductors have broken down, and save for a few special situations, it seems as if they have fallen and won't be able to get up for quite some time.
While many cherished technical signals have not been up to snuff over the past few years, trendline analysis of the PHLX Semiconductor index, known by its symbol SOX, continued to be reliable.


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Hiway America -Louisville,Kentucky.Welcome to the Messy World of Jerry's Junk
Posted on September 13, 2017 by hobo hippie
Welcome to the Messy World of Jerry's Junk
BY RICHIE GOFF
Staring out at you from behind those rusty gates; thousands of tightly packed, unwanted objects from the past sit in an eerie silence, almost as if they might just come alive as soon as you turn your back. Each and every single one has been collected by Kentucky's King of Junk, who has made a temporary home for them in his wild and tangled fortress…
Most people have heard of Louisville, Kentucky for hosting "the most exciting two-minutes in sports", aka, The Kentucky Derby. The first Saturday in May, locals and celebrities alike sip on mint juleps and watch the best horses in the world race. But most people don't venture around Kentucky's biggest city to find its quirky gems.
Louisville's Clifton neighbourhood is eclectic. Antique shops, used bookstores, and vintage clothing boutiques line the street along with some of the best restaurants in town. As the road dips down towards the Ohio River, a technicolor junk yard sits on the corner of Frankfort Avenue and Williams Street. Most people don't actually notice while driving by. Even the locals have become blind to the sight of Jerry's junk yard of weird and whacky memorabilia.
Jerry Lotz is a retired machinist and iron worker who started his collection in 1946 at the age of eight. Along with his main "display," he owns four other houses in the neighbourhood, all equally filled with "junk".
Driving his 1951 Studebaker, he visits flea markets to collect items for his "buy/ sell/ trade" business, though he tends to buy more than sell. "I can't sell it," he said. "I wouldn't know where to get more."
Jerry is somewhat elusive, and lives on the upper floor of the house; though if you do happen to catch him, he's friendly and approachable and he can talk for hours. Visitors have reported that this zany old man has approached them while they gawked at his collection and taken them on tours that lasted anywhere from twenty minutes to two hours. One commented that the funniest part of their tour was that he dragged around a rake the entire time, making it almost impossible to hear him!
He says if you search "number one trap attraction in Louisville," sure enough, Jerry's Junk comes up. Jerry's Junk, as he himself calls it, has also been featured on the History Channel's "American pickers," whose cast and crew he called some of the rudest people he's met.
His lot is filled with incredible items: a statue of liberty with Nixon's face, a second "normal" statue of liberty, a L&N caboose, a Buddha, ET in a telephone booth, a miniature biplane salvaged from Disneyland, dinosaurs, vintage cars, a buffalo, a giraffe, and everything in between. One thing is certain: if it's "ornery, unusual or different" he wants it, and he will find room for it.
If you do happen to catch Jerry and he gives you the tour, you may end up with a souvenir like a lucky horse shoe. If you don't see him hanging around, give a yell, "Hey Jerry!" Chances are, he'll soon appear, ready to share his story.
Written and photographed by Richie Goff
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Q: Why do Scottish people wear kilts? A: Sheep can hear a zipper from a mile away.
Two Irishmen friends are drinking together at one of their homes. One friend takes out a bottle of Irish whiskey and asks the other, "Will you pour this bottle out on my grave if I die first?" His friend replies, "Do you mind if I pass it through my kidneys first?"
Q: If a plane crashed on the Canada/USA border, where would the survivors be buried?
A: You don't bury survivors.
Q: Why were the Indians here first?
A: They had reservations.
There was a preacher who fell in the ocean and he couldn't swim. When a boat came by, the captain yelled, "Do you need help, sir?" The preacher calmly said "No, God will save me." A little later, another boat came by and a fisherman asked, "Hey, do you need help?" The preacher replied again, "No God will save me." Eventually the preacher drowned & went to heaven. The preacher asked God, "Why didn't you save me?" God replied, "Fool, I sent you two boats!"
Q: What do a Christmas tree and a priest have in common?
A: Their balls are just for decoration.
A drunk staggers into a Catholic Church, enters a confessional booth, sits down, but says nothing. The Priest coughs a few times to get his attention, but the drunk continues to sit there. Finally, the Priest pounds three times on the wall. The drunk mumbles, "Ain't no use knockin'! There's no paper on this side either!"
Mother superior tells two new nuns that they have to paint their room without getting any paint on their clothes. One nun suggests to the other, "Hey, let's take all our clothes off, fold them up, and lock the door." So they do this, and begin painting their room. Soon they hear a knock at the door. They ask, "Who is it?" "Blind man!" The nuns look at each other and one nun says, "He's blind, so he can't see. What could it hurt?" They let him in. The blind man walks in and says, "Hey, nice tits. Where do you want me to hang the blinds?"
A boy is selling fish on a corner. To get his customers' attention, he is yelling, "Dam fish for sale! Get your dam fish here!" A pastor hears this and asks, "Why are you calling them 'dam fish.'" The boy responds, "Because I caught these fish at the local dam." The pastor buys a couple fish, takes them home to his wife, and asks her to cook the dam fish. The wife responds surprised, "I didn't know it was acceptable for a preacher to speak that way." He explains to her why they are dam fish. Later at the dinner table, he asks his son to pass the dam fish. He responds, "That's the spirit, Dad! Now pass the f*cking potatoes!"
A man gets on a bus, and ends up sitting next to a very attractive nun. Enamored with her, he asks if he can have sex with her. Naturally, she says no, and gets off the bus. The man goes to the bus driver and asks him if he knows of a way for him to have sex with the nun. "Well," says the bus driver, "every night at 8 o'clock, she goes to the cemetery to pray. If you dress up as God, I'm sure you could convince her to have sex with you." The man decides to try it, and dresses up in his best God costume. At eight, he sees the nun and appears before her. "Oh, God!" she exclaims. "Take me with you!" The man tells the nun that she must first have sex with him to prove her loyalty. The nun says yes, but tells him she prefers anal sex. Before you know it, they're getting down to it, having nasty, grunty, loud sex. After it's over, the man pulls off his God disguise. "Ha, ha!" he says, "I'm the man from the bus!" "Ha, ha!" says the nun, removing her costume, "I'm the bus driver!"
A little boy wants a bike for Christmas really badly, but the kid is a real bad seed, and he knows it. He writes a letter to Jesus. "Dear Jesus, if I get a bike for Christmas, I'll be good for a whole week." He thinks about it, crosses out what he wrote, and says, "I can't be good for a whole week, I'll be good for five days." He crosses that out and writes, "I'll be good for four days." Then he thinks again and says, "Can't do that." He gets down to one day and says, "I can't even be good for a day." Then in frustration, goes in his mother's room and get the statue of the Virgin Mary, wraps it up in a blanket, puts it in a paper bag, throws it in the closet and says, "Dear Jesus, if I don't get a bike for Christmas, you'll never see your mother again!"
Three guys are at the gates of Heaven, and God tells them, "We have a special today! If you died a terrible death, you're in for free." So God asks the first guy his story. "I was a hard working man and a loving husband, but I began to suspect that my wife was cheating on me. One day, I called in sick to work and left for home to hide and closely watch my apartment. I saw a man go in, and I decided to wait a few minutes to catch them in the act. Then, I started banging on my door. They wouldn't open it, so I broke down the door and walked in to see my wife sitting naked, but the man wasn't in sight. I went to the balcony, where I saw a naked man hanging on the edge. I began to stomp on his hands until he fell down, but there were bushes, so I got my fridge and tossed it on him. In the process of tossing the fridge, I also fell over and died." God replies, "Wow, that's pretty bad, finding out your wife cheated and falling off your balcony. You pass." The second guy says, "God, my only crime was that I enjoyed dancing naked in my apartment while eating pickles out of the jar. I was doing just that one day, when I slipped on a pickle and fell over my balcony. Luckily, I was able to grab on to the ledge below mine. After a few minutes, a man came and I thought he was going to rescue me, but he began to stomp on my hands. I fell, but luckily, I fell into the bushes. I thought I had survived, but that man threw a fridge at me and I died!" God replies, "Wow, that's very cruel, being crushed to death." The third man says, "I died naked in a fridge."
A priest, a minister, and a rabbi want to see who's best at his job. So they each go into the woods, find a bear, and attempt to convert it. Later they get together. The priest begins: "When I found the bear, I read to him from the Catechism and sprinkled him with holy water. Next week is his first communion." "I found a bear by the stream," says the minister, "and preached God's holy word. The bear was so mesmerized that he let me baptize him." They both look down at the rabbi, who is lying on a gurney in a body cast. "Looking back," he says, "maybe I shouldn't have started with the circumcision."
In surgery for a heart attack, a middle-aged woman has a vision of God by her bedside. "Will I die?" she asks. God says, "No. You have 30 more years to live." With 30 years to look forward to, she decides to make the best of it. So since she's in the hospital, she gets breast implants, liposuction, a tummy tuck, hair transplants, and collagen injections in her lips. She looks great! The day she's discharged, she exits the hospital with a swagger, crosses the street, and is immediately hit by an ambulance and killed. Up in heaven, she sees God. "You said I had 30 more years to live," she complains. "That's true," says God. "So what happened?" she asks. God shrugs, "I didn't recognize you."
If Mary had Jesus, and Jesus is the lamb of God, does that mean Mary had a little lamb?
A gentleman is preparing to board a plane, when he hears that the Pope is on the same flight. "This is exciting," thinks the gentleman. "Perhaps I'll be able to see him in person." Imagine his surprise when the Pope sits down in the seat next to him. Shortly after take-off, the Pope begins a crossword puzzle. Almost immediately, the Pope turns to the gentleman and says, "Excuse me, but do you know a four letter word referring to a woman that ends in 'unt?'" Only one word leaps to mind. "My goodness," thinks the gentleman, "I can't tell the Pope that. There must be another word." The gentleman thinks for quite a while, and then it hits him. Turning to the Pope, the gentleman says, "I think the word you're looking for is 'aunt.'" "Of course," says the Pope. "Do you have an eraser?"
A husband and wife are in church. The preacher notices that the husband has fallen asleep and says to the wife, "Wake your husband up!" The wife answers, "You're the one who made him fall asleep, you wake him up!"
Wilson runs a nail factory and decides his business needs a bit of advertising. He has a chat with a friend who works in marketing, and he offers to make a television ad for Wilson's Nails. "Give me a week," says the friend, "and I'll be back with a tape." A week goes by and the marketing executive comes to see Wilson. He puts a cassette in the video and presses play. A Roman soldier is busy nailing Jesus to the cross. He turns to face the camera and says with a grin, "Use Wilson's Nails, they'll hold anything." Wilson goes mad, shouting, "What is the matter with you? They'll never show that on television. Give it another try, but no more Romans crucifying Jesus!" Another week goes by and the marketing man comes back to see Wilson with another tape. He puts it in the machine and hits play. This time the camera pans out from a Roman standing with his arms folded to show Jesus on the cross. The Roman looks up at him and says, "Wilson's Nails, they'll hold anything." Wilson is beside himself. "You don't understand. I don't want anything with Jesus on the cross! Now listen, I'll give you one last chance. Come back in a week with an advertisement that I can broadcast." A week passes and Wilson waits impatiently. The marketing executive arrives and puts on the new video. A naked man with long hair, gasping for breath, is running across a field. About a dozen Roman soldiers come over the hill, hot on his trail. One of them turns to the camera and says, "If only we had used Wilson's Nails!"
Two nuns were riding their bicycles down the street. The first nun says, "I've never came this way before." The second nun says, "Yeah, it's the cobblestones!"
Q: Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocaine during a root canal?
A: His goal: transcend dental medication.
A man walks into the ladies department of Macy's, walks up to the woman behind the counter and says, "I'd like to buy a bra for my wife." "What type of bra?" asks the clerk. "Type?" inquires the man. "There is more than one type?" "Look around," says the saleslady, as she shows a sea of bras in every shape, size, color, and material. "Actually, even with all of this variety, there are really only three types of bras," replies the salesclerk. Confused, the man asks what the types are. The saleslady replies, "The Catholic type, the Salvation Army type, and the Baptist type. Which one do you need?" Still confused, the man asks, "What is the difference between them?" The lady responds, "It is all really quite simple. The Catholic type supports the masses, the Salvation Army type lifts up the fallen, and the Baptist type makes mountains out of mole hills."
What did the Buddhist say to the hot dog vendor? Make me one with everything.
Why do Mormon women stop having kids at 29? Because 30 is too many!
When Paddy's dog died, he took it to the local Catholic church. He asked the preacher if he could have a funeral service for his much loved pet, but the preacher explained that they didn't do services like that for animals. Paddy asked who would and the preacher suggested that the Baptist church up the road would probably give the dog a funeral service. Paddy asked, "Preacher, do you think $5,000 would be enough payment for the dog's funeral?" The preacher relied, "Dearest Paddy, why didn't you tell me that your dog was a Catholic?"
Q: Why did all the hippies go to church on the first day of Lent? A: They heard it was "Hash Wednesday."
Q: How does Moses make his tea?
A: Hebrews it.
Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic with insomnia who stayed up all night wondering if there really is a dog?
AUSTRALIANS DEAN AND EDUARD NITZ LAY CLAIM TO 'WORLD'S OLDEST BURGER
Mmm…..Casey Dean and Eduard Nitz have waited 20 years to taste this burger. Source: Channel 10
ONCE upon a time in Adelaide, Casey Dean, 14, and his good mate Eduard Nitz, 13, stopped off at their local McDonald's to pick up some burgers. Among them was a Quarter Pounder with cheese they'd bought for another kid. That kid never turned up, but they didn't eat his burger. Ever.
That was back in 1995. The boys have become men and the burger has turned 20 and to celebrate, Mr Dean and Mr Nitz are going to reveal it to the world for the first time with an appearance on The Project tonight.
To bite or not to bite? Casey Dean and Eduard Nitz have pondered this question for two decades. Source: Channel 10
"We're pretty sure it's the oldest burger in the world," Mr Dean said.
"It started off as a joke, you know we told our friend we'd hold his burger for him but he never turned up and before we knew it six months had passed. The months became years and now, 20 years later, it looks the same as it did the day we bought it, perfectly preserved in its original wrapping."
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HIWAY AMERICA – The Oneonta Gorge Oregon, a time lapse Of Portland and weird Portland Oregon
A TIME LAPSE OF PORTLAND
Called "Finding Portland", it took production company Uncage the Soul 51 days and more than 300,000 individual photos to assemble. Thanks to the magic of time lapse photography, each second contains 3.8 hours.
My favorite parts are the Shamrock Run at 1:05 and the long pan out starting at 1:24 that shows just how incredibly beautiful—and close by—the nature aroundPortland is.
Oneonta Gorge, Oregon
Oneonta Gorge is one of those hidden treasures that you just have to see to believe. Tucked away within the stunning Columbia River Gorge (which is a natural wonder all on its own), this magical creek might be one of America's most beautiful hikes. It was a miner '49er named Carleton Eugene Watkins, originally on the West Coast for the California gold rush, who first photographed the area, and he was the one who gave the gorge its name– he called it "Oneonta" after his hometown of Oneonta, New York.
Located near Page, Ariz., this brilliant slot canyon is split into two different sections, commonly referred to as "The Crack" and "The Corkscrew." The natural canvas of color and unique structure is an Instgrammer's dream.
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Flickr: gorgejeff / Creative Commons
The Oneonta Gorge is in the Columbia River Gorge with a unique set of aquatic and woodland plants. The ferns and moss make the walls look like a fairy tale, and visitors can walk through the creek on a warm summer day.
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HIWAY AMERICA- WEIRD FLORIDA
Posted on November 20, 2014 by hobo hippie
Dumb Laws in Florida
City Laws in Florida
Skateboarding is not allowed at any police station.
Full text of the law.
Persons face up to thirty days in jail for selling oranges on the sidewalk.
Termite farms are not allowed within the city.
No one may bring a pig with them to the beach.
Neon signs are prohibited.
Persons may not tow a sled behind their bicycles.
Citizens may not be caught downtown without at least 10 dollars on their person.
It is illegal to roll a barrel on any street, fines go up according to the contents of the barrel.
A women can be fined (only after death), for being electrocuted in a bath-tub because of using self-beautification utensils.
Stage nudity is banned, with the exception of "bona fide" theatrical performances.
If you hit a pedestrian you are fined $78.
You may not catch crabs.
Beer may not be sold between 2 a.
Persons may not appear in public clothed in liquid latex.
All houses much have white picket fences and full-width, two-story porches.
About this law.
Women may not expose their breasts while performing"topless dancing".
Lap dances must be given at least six feet away from a patron.
Ah, Florida: sun, surf, sand, South Beach, and senior citizens. That's about it, right? Well, no, not exactly. Florida is also one of the best places to chart your weirdest travel destinations. And who better to chronicle this state's fabled places, roadside wonders, bizarre beasts, and downright peculiar people than Charlie Carlson, a tenth-generation Floridian. All who know Charlie can testify that he is one very strange dude – and the perfect person to steer you to Florida's best-kept secrets and oddest legends. Below you will find links to some of the weirdest Florida stories, but remember, the tales on this website are only the tip of the iceberg. To get the full weirdness we recommend you buy Weird Florida the book…
ABANDONED:
Devil's School #4
Forgotten Gateway
Nike Missle Base
Old Citrus Packing House
Osceola Bank Vault
Popash School
Sunland Hospital
Fountain of Youth Burial Ground
Miami Mystery Circle
New Smyrna Ruins
Okeechobee Burial Ground
Wakulla Volcano
BIZARRE BEASTS:
Bardin Booger
El Chupacabra
Skunk Ape
CEMETERY SAFARI:
Brownie Grave
Devil's Chair
Elena Milagro Hoyos
Horse Grave
Jackie Gleason's Grave
Key West Graves
Lynard Skynard VanZant
Middle of Road Grave
Phillip's Mausoleum
Rooster Graveyard
FABLED PEOPLE AND PLACES:
Christmas, FL
GHOSTS:
Ashley's Ghost
Cassandaga
Catalina's Ghost
Huguenot Cemetery
Midnight in the Castillo
Old Firehouse
Robert the Living Doll
St. Francis Inn
LOCAL LEGENDS:
Devil's Millhopper
Devil's Tree
Haunted Oaks – Deadman's Trees
Tallahassee Witch Grave
Wiccademous Path
PERSONALIZED PROPERTIES:
House of Statues
American Dreyfus
Bowling Ball House
Mafia House?
Opa-Locka-Baghdad
Solomon's Castle
ROADSIDE ODDITIES:
800 Year Old Building
Bongoland
Crashed Planes
Drive-in Church
Mile Marker Zero
Miracle Wall
Most Unusual Monument
Possum Monument
Presidents Hall of Fame
Smalles Police Station
Smallest Post Office
Southernmost Point
Tallest Cross
Zero Milestone
ROAD LESS TRAVELED:
Blood Bucket Road
Green Briar Road
Magnolia Creek
Old Red Eyes-Kingsley Road
Rolling Acres Road
Route 4 Dead Zone
Suicide Road
UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA:
Booming Sounds
Carnivorous Cloud
Coral Castle Photos
Oviedo Lights
Spook Hill
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These Graves From Around The World Are Sweet, Strange And Just Bizarre.
OMG ——— By Michael Cahill
Graveyards are creepy places to be, there's no way around that. Sometimes though, the gravestones can be so much spookier than the graveyard itself. Takes these 23 graves for example.
They're the strangest, most bizarre, and most heartbreaking gravestones we could find.
1.) Weeping at the piano. I wonder if she played…
2.) This woman really loved her Micky Mouse.
3.) I hope this guy didn't die of anything smoking related.
4.) The grave of a maze maker. Could you solve it?
5.) Sleeping forever.
6.) A tree taking over an old grave.
7.) From a graveyard in Paris, France. It's a hauntingly beautiful gravestone.
8.) A heart broken mother had this grave designed for her deceased 10-year-old daughter in 1871. While she was alive, the daughter was terrified of storms. The grave was constructed with an entrance that descends to the level of the coffin. Her mother would come and enter the tomb during storms to comfort her child.
9.) This life size girl in the glass box grave was commissioned by the girl's mother.
10.) This is the grave of a 16-year-old girl. Her sister has this life-sized gravestone commissioned for her.
11.) Endless love, from Thailand.
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How Did Bob Dylan Get So Weird?
By Bill Wyman
Bob Dylan, 1964
Photo: © Daniel Kramer.
In August, a Bob Dylan album may well arrive in stores concrete and virtual. It may be called Shadows in the Night. It may have a song called "Full Moon & Empty Arms" on it; a stream of the tune was released without comment on his website a couple of months ago. Why Dylan chose to record a cover of an old Sinatra track isn't clear; it may, or may not, be a clue that the purported album will consist of covers. Dylan has just finished shows in Japan, Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia; will head next to Australia and New Zealand; and may or may not be preparing for a swing through the U.S. in the fall.
We think of Dylan in a pantheon of great rock stars, at or near the top of a select list that includes the Stones, Springsteen, maybe U2, but not too many other active artists. But he behaves much differently. He's released more albums than Bruce Springsteen in the past 25 years and played more shows than Springsteen, the Stones, and U2 combined. Yet he hardly ever does interviews and does virtually nothing to publicize his albums or tours. For someone who seems to be in such plain sight, he remains hidden, present but opaque, an open book written in cipher. Normal questions don't seem to do him justice. You want to ask: What is Bob Dylan? Why is Bob Dylan? After listening to him since I was a kid and seeing him live for—gulp—nearly 40 years, I think I'm beginning to figure it out.
You have to start by disregarding the well-told narrative: The soi-disant vagabond's rise through folk music to a place of utter domination at the highest level of literate, passionate, and difficult pop and rock music, all by 1966; a retreat and Gethsemane until 1974, when he came back, roaring and vengeful, more passionately focused than before, adding a remarkable personal dimension to his '60s work. After that, depending on how generously you view his career, there has been either a long decline or decades of remarkable and kaleidoscopic creativity, culminating in the triumphs, late in life, of his five most recent albums.
For an artist as rooted in our musical culture as Dylan, the linearity of a narrative works more to disconnect him from the influences and traditions his work comprises than to explain him. First, you have to appreciate the many layers that make up his peculiar but unmistakable aesthetic. His work is grounded in acoustic folk-blues—ballads, chants, and love stories, populated with mystical or just plain weird meanings and themes, rattling and farting around like tetched uncles in the attic of our American psyche. To this add the dread-filled dreamscapes—unexplainable, unnerving—of French Surrealism, and then, arrestingly, the punchy patois of the Beats, who originally intuited the substratum of social stresses that would whipcrack across the '60s and into the '70s. Then factor in personal songwriting, a strain of pop he basically invented, doled out first with obfuscations, payback, tall tales, and lies—some by design, some on general principle, some just to be an asshole—and then the signs, here and there (and then everywhere, the more you look), of autobiographical happenstance and deeply felt emotion.
And remember that some of his narratives are fractured. Time and focus shift; first person can become third; sometimes more than one story seems to be being told at the same time ("Tangled Up in Blue" and "All Along the Watchtower" are two good examples). And then there's plain sonic impact: Even his earliest important songs have a cerebral and reverberating authority in the recording, his voice sometimes filling the speakers, his primitive but blistering guitar work adding confrontation, ease, humor, anger, and contrariness, presenting all but the most unwilling listeners with moment after moment of incandescence.
And, finally, a key component often overlooked: Dylan's artistic process. On a fundamental level, he doesn't trust mediation or planning. The story of his recording career is littered with tales of indecisive and failed sessions and haphazard successful ones, in both cases leaving frustrated producers and session people in their wake. You could say the approach served him well during his early years of inspiration and has hobbled him in his later decades of lesser work. Dylan doesn't care. During the recording of Blood on the Tracks,which may be the best rock album ever made, one of the musicians present heard the singer being told how to do something correctly in the studio. Dylan's reply: "Y'know, if I'd listened to everybody who told me how to do stuff, I mightbe somewhere by now."
He came to New York in early 1961, telling anyone who'd listen he'd ridden the rails, played with Buddy Holly, all sorts of nonsense. In reality, he was a fairly middle-class kid who'd hitchhiked, in winter, from the far north of Minnesota; in a way, this single act of propulsion toward reinvention by a 19-year-old is braver and more interesting than all his later tall tales of travel. He arrived in New York on the coldest day the city had seen in many years.
He was a prodigy, with a natural affinity for a medium that would, unexpectedly, afford a few people like him international acclaim and a permanent place in the cultural firmament, and lots of money too. His uncanny musicianship—producing enduring melodies and lovely harmonica solos—included an ability to effortlessly transpose keys that would impress professionals throughout his career. He also had a first-class mind, quick (almost too quick) of wit and relaxed enough to let inspiration flow without forcing it, yet also wiry, retaining permanently the complex wording of many hundreds of tunes. He soaked up the songs and the lore of folk and blues, cobbling together a shtick—an Okie patois, a shambling affect, and a fixation with Woody Guthrie, the socialist troubadour of the '30s and '40s and the author of "This Land Is Your Land," who at the time was dying in a New Jersey hospital. It all served to disguise, at first, a mysterious charisma—with eyes, as Joan Baez remembered them later, "bluer than robin's eggs"—and an apparent ambition that left a few damaged friendships, and egos, in its wake.
Baez, stentorian and humorless, recorded her first album in 1960 and was a star the next year. (She moved to Carmel and bought a Jaguar.) Dylan got an early rave in the New York Times, which led to his record contract. His second album contained several tracks that became standards. One, "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," was a strikingly imagistic portrait of a child returning from a journey to impart wisdom to an older generation. It's the place where Dylan's self-definition begins to merge with his songs. On his third and fourth albums, Dylan showed he was capable of increasing nuance. "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll," the compellingly told true story of a barmaid carelessly killed by a moneyed young drunk, still able to make one's blood boil, never mentions Carroll's race.
At the same time, his mash-up of influences was creating deeper, subtler work, producing mysterious moments like the end of "Boots of Spanish Leather." The song, spare and lulling, is a dialogue between the singer and his lover, who's going on a journey. The woman wants to bring the guy back a present; the guy keeps saying he wants nothing besides her return. She finally says she won't be coming back for a while—at which point the guy asks for a gift: some "Spanish boots of Spanish leather." It's not clear why the word Spanish is repeated. Maybe the guy's heart was broken, or maybe the woman was right—he did just want something from her. But there's a self-referential meaning to the song as well: Dylan's own journey. Stars, after all, promise devotion to their fans and then disappear, leaving a simulacrum of their former selves that fans can never get something authentic from.
Beginning in 1965, in a 14-month rush, Dylan released three albums—Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde—each with two or three (very) major songs, three or four relatively minor (but still mind-blowing) efforts, and some doggerel and fun for leavening, all in a great spew of poetic verbiage. Dylan's voice had deepened and matured; it rang with clarity, snickered with derision, led us compellingly, at its best hypnotically, through nightmares and fever dreams. "Subterranean Homesick Blues" introduced a modern, rock-and-roll Dylan, blasting off political aphorisms softened with absurdities—"Don't follow leaders / Watch the parking meters." Lacerating new epics made his old epics seem trite. Take "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"; the title, and a potent Cold War reference in the first line, fixes our narrator seemingly as a wounded soldier, who then spends the rest of a very long song reflecting on the society he's dying for. "Like a Rolling Stone" captured the second half of the decade in advance, a Scud missile of mockery directed at an entire pampered generation adrift. When Dylan howled the words "no direction home," it was hard to tell if his tone was exultant or pained; it was a conundrum he and his audience have gnawed at ever since. In a telling example of how Dylan's words can leapfrog meanings across decades, the song's final silky lines—"You're invisible now / You've got no secrets to conceal"—capture precisely the predicament of a new generation paradoxically rendered faceless by electronic connectivity and yet entirely without privacy.
Bob Dylan in Bratislava, Slovakia, 2010.
Dylan's remarkable work from this period is sometimes trivialized by stories about how he freaked everyone out by "going electric." In I'm Not There, his cubistic cinematic portrait of Dylan, Todd Haynes represents the moment with the singer and his band mowing the crowd down with machine guns. Please. There were some boos at the Newport Folk Festival when Dylan and his electric band played there. But at least some of the reaction came from the high volume and poor sound quality of the performance, which was, after all, at a folk festival. Meanwhile, "Subterranean Homesick Blues" was Dylan's first Top 40 hit, and "Like a Rolling Stone," an unprecedented six minutes long, went to No. 2. Dylan's move to electric is of course a key moment in his musical growth, and an interesting footnote in the history of 1960s American folk; but it was not a thumb in the eye of propriety. Everyone liked it!
Dylan is intensely private. More than almost any star I can think of, our understanding of his personal life is occluded and disjointed. His first wife was Sara Dylan, née Sara Lownds, née Shirley Noznisky. When they met, she was married to a guy in publishing in New York; early in their relationship, Dylan mentioned to an interviewer that he'd met a woman named Sara and that she was one of only two truly "holy people" he had ever met. (The other was Allen Ginsberg, though Ginsberg had never done a stint as a Playboy bunny.) "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is widely seen as a tribute to Sara; it has a title that suggests the name Lownds and other lyrical hints ("Your magazine husband / Who one day just had to go") and is placed ostentatiously to fill up the entire final side of Blonde on Blonde. Dylan's memoir, Chronicles: Volume 1, some of which may be true, is at its most dyspeptic when the singer describes the hordes of hippies impinging on his and his family's life by the mid-'60s. Using a motorcycle accident as an excuse, Dylan retreated in 1966 and began releasing country-flavored albums at long intervals to dampen his celebrity. In the meantime, he and Sara raised an eventual family of five in peace. The names and number of his children were widely misunderstood until the publication ofDown the Highway, a powerful, definitive biography by Howard Sounes, in 2001. (The children are Maria, from Sara's first marriage; Jakob, whom you know from the Wallflowers; Jesse, a Hollywood and new-media guy, director of Will.i.am's "Yes We Can" Obama music video; Anna, an artist who stays out of sight; and Samuel, a photographer who keeps a low profile as well. This is not to mention his second, secret wife and at least one other acknowledged child, but that's a tale for another time.)
Dylan emerged in the mid-'70s to tour with the Band, release two of his strongest albums (Blood on the Tracks and Desire), and embark on a nutty and hilarious gypsy-caravan tour dubbed the Rolling Thunder Revue. His relationship with Sara was strained at this point, though she came along on the tour and even starred in his bizarre four-hour movie, Renaldo & Clara. But in the end, Dylan's womanizing fueled what became a bitter divorce. His most plainly personal album is Blood on the Tracks, a lancing portrait of a romantic death spiral. (Jakob has said he gets no pleasure from listening to it: "When I'm listening to Blood on the Tracks, that's about my parents.") Among (many) other things, Blood on the Tracks is an exercise in emotional intensity, from self-pity and anger to ruefulness. There are obvious references to his wife in the wrenching "Idiot Wind" and also at the beginning of "Tangled Up in Blue" ("She was married when we first met / Soon to be divorced"). Blood on the Trackswas recorded in bizarre circumstances, first in New York and then more than half of it rerecorded in Minneapolis with a pickup band; yet its shuddering atmospherics and controlled, specific writing combined to make it the most organic and emotionally fulfilling work in Dylan's canon.
The Rolling Thunder Revue saw the return of the lovely Baez; she sang "Diamonds & Rust," her greatest song, a poison-pen love letter to Dylan, and did the frug behind Roger McGuinn during "Eight Miles High." A decade on, in the '80s, she and Dylan toured again, this time in Japan, with what was supposed to have been shared star billing. Baez inevitably became an opening act and eventually told the tour to fuck off, as she later told the story. Granted an exit audience with Dylan, she found him an aged version of the immature ragamuffin. He was tired but slipped his hand up her skirt for old times' sake.
The next two decades were tough for him artistically; as Greil Marcus has put it, Dylan was essentially committing a "public disappearance." Beginning in 1979, he tested his audience's expectations and goodwill more tellingly than any punk by releasing three albums of unimaginative Christian-themed songs, along with two tours in which he plowed stolidly through this material. The problem was not Dylan's beliefs, though they leaned to the crackpot; lots of acts had religious leanings—Van Morrison among them. It was how Dylan articulated those beliefs. To listen to the albums today is to enter a (not very) fun house of mediocrity and intolerance.
Dylan began to produce his own albums. He wasn't dogmatic about it; he would once in a while bring in an outside producer—Mark Knopfler helped on Infidels, and Daniel Lanois superimposed a decent setting (and demanded a suite of coherent songs) for Oh Mercy. Other albums from the '80s and '90s were weirdly inconsistent in the quality of both the songs and the production values. Even weirder is the fact that Dylan was actually writing and recording some of his best work during this time. "The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar, "Blind Willie McTell," "Caribbean Wind," "Foot of Pride," "Series of Dreams" … Authoritative and undeniable, they were better than anything his contemporaries were then releasing. Unfortunately, they were also better than anything Dylan was releasing and only turned up later on compilations albums.
In 1997, Lanois returned for Time Out of Mind. The critics went nuts over this work and the four regular releases since. I think these albums are woefully overrated, but they have sold well, and with the critics behind them, too, I'm willing to acknowledge the disconnect may be mine. But deep down I know that it's hard to find, over the past ten or 15 years, more than three or four songs you'd stick on a mix tape to try to convince someone of this singer-songwriter's greatness. Too many of his recent songs start with a pleasant-enough (or, more often, serviceable) riff—which is then beaten into the ground by his backing band. My hunch is that Dylan, producing in the studio, nods in inscrutable approval when he hears something he likes. The band, nervous but eager to please, obliges and starts playing the damn riff continuously. There's no outsider around to tweak it or vary it or add dynamics.
In the folk-blues tradition, older songs were reappropriated and built upon; in his later years, Dylan has played with this tradition and found himself in mini-controversies when researchers find that some words in his songs first appeared somewhere else. Amateur sleuths discovered that his album "Love and Theft" had a pattern of lines seemingly taken from a fairly obscure Japanese writer, Junichi Saga. More recently, some obsessives started looking at passages in Chronicles and found lines taken from an astonishing variety of places, from self-help books to The Great Gatsby. The pickings seem to be phrases bouncing around the ragged mind of a guy with a photographic memory. On the other hand, some of the inner workings are plainly mischievous, like an in-passing list of news stories; the headlines were all from a mocking take on the press in John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
To tweak the purists again, he'll once in a while appear in a TV commercial—distracting from the subtle attention he pays to how posterity will see his work. He goes out of his away to appear on awards shows when they beckon; he's shown his artwork and sells it online; his memoir, while odd, was nonetheless transfixing and reminded us that he was once a young man groping for a future and placing his bets on a very long shot indeed. The Dylan camp is readying an extraordinary digital archive of his songs, recordings, and paraphernalia. Dylan owns a coffeehouse, it's said, in Santa Monica; unprepossessing and iconoclastic, it has an extremely friendly staff and no Wi-Fi. There's not much on the walls, but you notice the references contained in what's there: Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Muhammad Ali, Leonardo da Vinci. There's one big oil painting behind the counter, one that looks a lot like Dylan's own work, silent and content in the company it keeps.
And then there's the touring. In Chronicles, Dylan details, with seeming frankness, the aimlessness that brought him to a slough of despond at the end of the '80s. He may have been facing what all rock stars who survive face, which is how to grow old gracefully in a medium cruelly tied to youthfulness. He resolved to get out and play his songs—and went back on the road in 1988 with a small, seldom-changing backing ensemble, with whom he delved into his back pages, including many songs he'd never played live before.
Here's the odd thing—26 years on, he hasn't stopped. He's been playing about 100 shows annually ever since, growling through a set of songs old and new with a small band. It's an endeavor that for a good chunk of each year keeps him on a private bus and, in the U.S. at least, in relatively crummy hotel and motel rooms. (He's said to prefer places that have windows that open and allow him to sleep with his pet mastiffs. Beyond that, they are places fans wouldn't expect to find him.) The shows at first may have been a tonic, but over time they revealed themselves to be a panacea. It must have struck Dylan: How could he look foolish if he just kept doing the same thing? If he were an artist, he would continue to create and show his art publicly. If he were a celebrity, he would appear in public. And if he were a seer, a prophet, or even a god, well, he would let folks pay and see for themselves how mortal such figures actually were. And far from saturating the market, he has created a new industry for himself as a touring artist. On a good night he makes some of his best-known songs unrecognizable, and on a bad one you come out wondering what it was, exactly, you've just seen. So far this year, the 73-year-old has played in Japan (17 shows), Hawaii (two), Ireland, Turkey, and nearly 20 other cities in the hinterlands of Europe; he's headed now to more than a dozen shows in eight different cities in Australia and New Zealand—and this is before what should be a fall run through the States. Robert Shelton, the New York Times writer who first noticed Dylan, labored on a biography for more than 20 years; seeing the star's unstable arc on its publication in 1986, he titled it, grandly, No Direction Home. Dylan hadn't even begun not to go home.
It strikes me that the one thing all of these bizarre behaviors have in common is that they tend to strip away everything that stands between Bob Dylan's art and his audience but simultaneously occlude everything else. There was a subtle shift in emphasis in one of his most powerful images, and perhaps a hint of resignation, in the song "Not Dark Yet," in 1997:
I was born here and I'll die here against my will
I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from. The exultant cry of "no direction home" derived its power from the fact that, in the end, any place new was better than where we'd come from. In that context, not remembering what you left originally is a remarkable statement of anomie.
Still, we might have focused over the years too much on the word direction, as in "heading toward."
Maybe "no direction home" means that there's no guidance home, that you have to figure it out for yourself.
If Bob Dylan is a question, maybe this is the answer. Given the chance, Dylan will give the audience his art, unadulterated, as he creates it, and nothing more. He believes it's a corruption of his art to be directed by someone else's sensibility. In its own weird way, isn't this one sacred connection between artist and audience? It might be nicer if he did things differently. It might be more palatable, more commercially successful. (He might be somewhere by now.) This is what ties together his signal creations, his ongoing shows, and even the wretched albums of the '80s and '90s; what he does might be sublime and ineffable or yet also coarse and unsuccessful; it is what it is, defined by where it comes from, not what it should be. Even his remoteness is a by-product; it's what he deserves after having given his all. Call the work art, call it crap, call it Spanish boots of Spanish leather, but in the end it's the creation of an artist who defies us to ask for something more.
*This article appears in the July 28, 2014 issue of New York Magazine.
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André has been involved in many, often his own, M&A transactions over the past 15 years. He is a former IT entrepreneur, building up his own companies and leading them to a successful exit. He ran his own M&A boutique for German mid-sized companies in the Ruhr area for several years. His industry focus areas are on IT (software and hardware), healthcare and tech. André holds a degree in Business Information Technology and is a commercial judge at the Essen Regional Court. He is a member of our TMT group, having closed several transactions in this sector.
Petra Fischer
Petra has worked in the European construction industry for more than 20 years. Her experience ranges from acquisition and steering of M&A processes up to the integration of acquired companies into group structures. In addition, she has held the position of CEO within several local companies. In recent years, Petra has gained specific experience in other M&A projects, among others in the consumer goods industry and the art market. Petra holds a degree in business administration (WU Vienna) and has lived and worked in Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Portugal, and Germany. She speaks German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Czech.
Johannes Wolters
Johannes has worked as a consultant with a focus on M&A in the small and mid-cap markets for over 20 years. As an industrial engineer, business mediator, systemic coach, and business administrator, he has in-depth knowledge about structuring and moderating M&A processes. In addition, he has gained valuable personal experience through the sale of his own family business. Before that, Johannes worked in the FMCG and construction industry for eight years. His distinct strength lies in his negotiation skills and his broad overall experience. His industry focus is on FMCG, trade, services, and production.


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30 Years in 30 Days: Gail Simmons
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To celebrate our 30th anniversary, we're sharing 30 Years in 30 Days, an exclusive 30-episode digital series featuring noteworthy chefs and culinary icons who will help us tell the story of the Foundation's history in the 30 days leading up to an exciting television premiere: 30 Years: A Celebration of the James Beard Foundation, airing Sunday, November 26, at 4:00 P.M. (ET) on ABC. The exciting television special will feature appearances by industry icons Daniel Boulud, Tom Colicchio, Traci des Jardins, Carla Hall, Emeril Lagasse, Jacques Pepin, Gail Simmons, Martha Stewart, Ming Tsai, and Marcus Samuelsson, who will help us tell the story of our history and evolution.
On our eighth installment of 30 Years in 30 Days, we've got author and television personality Gail Simmons, who was first introduced to the James Beard Foundation at Peter Kump's New York Cooking School. Years later, Simmons shares her appreciation for all the Foundation provides, including the culinary community she says JBF has helped create.
Watch the video above, and be sure to stay tuned as we continue to share these poignant pieces over the next month.
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We are thrilled to be joined by Rabbi Katy Allen, a long time leader of the Jewish Climate Action Network (JCAN). Rabbi Allen will give a guest sermon on why and how we are called as Jews, in this moment, to rise up for the planet; she will lead Q&A during the oneg following the service.
JCAN is also organizing the Second Jewish Climate Conference, on March 24, 12:30 to 7:30 pm, Temple Reyim, Newton.


What exactly is an REO? The term REO has been discussed in many publications concerning property sales, on the assumption that the reader knows what REO means. Here is a brief explanation of REO, so you, as a prospective investor, can take advantage of the information out there on it. Using your InvestorComps account to access real estate comps will prepare you to make smart financial decisions these regarding properties.
REO or "a real estate owned property, means the bank or lending institution has full ownership of the property. You can think of it as a property that has "defaulted." However, REO is a bit different from plain foreclosure. Let us look more closely at the process by which a property becomes REO. First, the party making payments on the house misses payments, to the extent that the property becomes foreclosed. The lending entity to which the person was making the payments usually tries to short sell the property, or put it on the block at a foreclosure auction. The bank will most likely be looking to sell the house or apartment for at least the remaining amount of money owed to it by the previous resident. Thus, the asking price has already been reduced, sometimes significantly. However, if a buyer or investor may not be found, then property becomes an REO.
At this point the property's price has been marked down even more. It may be in horrible condition, but the price is often very low, because the bank often cannot devote a great deal of time and/or resources to improving the property for investment purposes. Basically the bank often just wants to sell the house as quickly as possible. InvestorComps can provide you with important valuation information to assist with determining which property or properties will be profitable. You can then purchase the house, make some repairs, and then sell it on the market for a much, much higher price than the rock-bottom one at which you bought it.
If you are interested in REO properties as investment real estate, here are ways to find some: 1). Talk with a local community bank or credit union and ask if they have any non-performing real estate assets on their books that they would like to sell. 2). If you have significant funds, you may be able to purchase REO's from an asset manager at a major bank like Wells Fargo in bulk. Banks of this size have entire departments that are specifically dedicated to handle REO properties.
Whatever source you use, buying a REO can provide excellent opportunities or profit if executed diligently. Utilizing your InvestorComps account to do your due diligence will pay off significantly each time.


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STEVE GLENN
Incoming District 50 superintendent to make $150K
Greenwood County School District 50's incoming superintendent will earn less than his predecessor, but he will still be the highest-paid school district chief in the Lakelands when he begins on July 1.
According to Steve Glenn's employment contract, he will earn $150,000 per year and will serve through June 30, 2022. According to self-reported ethics filings, no other superintendent in the Lakelands earns more than $140,000 in base salary. Glenn's predecessor, 13-year district veteran Darrell Johnson, earned $188,000 according to ethics filings.
As with his predecessor, Glenn will receive a raise after each positive performance evaluation "equivalent to the same annual percentage increase authorized for certified teachers in the District."
The format of the evaluation will be recommended by Glenn, agreed upon by the board and conducted every fall. The first evaluation, however, will be held in the summer of 2020, with the board of trustees reserving the right to conduct an interim evaluation in January or February of 2020.
Termination of Glenn's contract would require six votes from the nine-member board, upon which he would receive severance equal to a year's salary or the balance left on his contract — whichever is less.
Among the conditions of Glenn's contract is his relocation from Abbeville County to District 50 before Sept. 1, the cost of which will be covered by the district.
"The superintendent shall have the option of designating any part of his salary to be contributed directly by the District to an annuity plan of (his) choice" and will also receive an annual contribution from the district, equal to 5% of his salary, should he receive a positive performance evaluation after the 2019-20 school year.
Among the other benefits of the position are:
Those enjoyed by the district's other administrative employees and 12 days of vacation annually
A complete annual medical examination "in light of the unique nature of the professional duties of the superintendent" at the district's expense, the results of which will be given to the board and kept confidential
A monthly automobile allowance of $625 for reimbursement for in-district travel
Payment of dues to the American Association of School Administrators and the South Carolina Association of School Administrators
Participation in and travel to school board and administrator-related programs and activities as well as seminars and courses offered by educational institutions. Such travel and participation would be reimbursed by the district.
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NEST Labs Acquired by Google Inc.
by Alex David Jimenez
PALO ALTO, CA – On January 13th of this year, Google Inc. acquired the infant company NEST Labs for an astounding $3.2 billion dollars. The deal came only three months after NEST released its second product, the NEST Protect©. Google, a goliath of a company worth roughly $200 billion dollars, jumped at the opportunity to purchase the rapidly growing NEST before other giants like Facebook and Yahoo! had the chance.
NEST Labs© Founders Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers
NEST Labs was founded in 2010 by engineers Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers. Both Fadell and Rogers were employees of Apple Inc. at the time, boasting high-level positions at the company (Fadell has been called the driving force behind the original iPod). They took a large risk leaving Apple to start their own business – one which today has most decidedly been worth the effort. In 2011, NEST introduced their first product, the NEST Learning Thermostat©. The product was a success, offering a new and more modern application to heating and cooling, and utilizing WiFi technology to give users access to their home thermostat with their smart phones or tablets. With the success of the thermostat, Fadell and Rogers engineered their second product, released just this last October – the NEST Protect©. The Protect introduced a new-age look and functionality of the common smoke detector. Sales began to boom with the release of their second product, and Google Inc. saw the potential of the business.
NEST Learning Thermostat
The NEST Learning Thermostat and the NEST Protect both utilize WiFi capabilities, a component in modern technology which is becoming more and more prominent every day. The thermostat is revolutionary in that it essentially "learns" by way of remembering your particular habits and routines in the way you heat and cool your house. The temperature you are comfortable with becomes the norm, and the NEST will adjust it for you, saving you time and energy. At the same time, you can view and adjust the temperature of your home or office from you phone, even when you are not there. This comes in handy when you have a pet or children at home and want to be sure they are comfortable.
NEST Protect
The NEST Protect is a brand new way of protecting yourself from fire and carbon monoxide. The product basis is the same, sensing smoke and chemicals and alerting you. However, it is far more advanced – in a sense, it's smart. The Protect talks to you; If smoke is detected, it will first tell you that it senses smoke. If you're simply burning toast, you can wave at the NEST Protect and it will hush itself- no more screaming alarm from simple cooking. The device is connected to WiFi and communicates with your smart-device. If there is smoke or carbon monoxide detected in your home when you're not there, NEST will tell your phone. You can act immediately and contact emergency services. If the NEST Protect battery is low, your phone is alerted. No more chirping. Essentially, The Protect is revolutionary because it talks to you, and doesn't rely solely on screeching loud obnoxious alarms.
Currently NEST Labs products are available only in the United States, though are expected to become a global product soon. The NEST Thermostat and NEST Protect are available through nest.com and found at sever retailers, including Amazon, Apple, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Lowe's.
Filed Under: TECHNOLOGY, U.S. Tagged With: Apple, billion, Google, Nest, Nest Protect, Nest Thermostat, Palo Alto, smoke detector, wifi
Gadgets: The Good, The Bad and the Coming Soon
We're well on our way into 2014, and with each milestone we pass, the future becomes more, well, nerdy. Nerdy, that is, in the sense of existing on a more technology and algorithm-based plane. The planet around us is growing smaller as more and more of our OS and HTML obsessed brains grow just a little bit larger. The tech world grows faster every day, and it shows. The late 2013 is no exception to the rule, having given us many bright new gadgets, as well as many dull ones.
In a nutshell, here are the better, best, and not-so-good #gadgets of 2013, (as well as the rising stars to watch in 2014) including smart phones, tablets, laptops, gaming systems, wearable tech, apps, mobile operating systems, and other miscellaneous gadgets.
Smart Phones 2013
Winner: Apple iPhone 5s
Runner-up: HTC One
Loser: Blackberry Z10
The one to watch in 2014: Motorola Project ARA
Graphic courtesy Alex Hillsberg – financesonline.com
Tablets 2013
Winner: Apple iPad Air
Runner-up: Google Nexus 7
Loser: Microsoft Surface RT
The one to watch in 2014: Amazon Kindle Fire HDX
Laptops 2013
Winner: Apple MacBook Air 13″
Runner-up: Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus
Loser: Google Chromebook Pixel
The one to watch in 2014: Asus Taichi
Gaming Systems 2013
Winner: Sony Playstation 4
Runner-up: Microsoft XBox One
Loser: Ouya
The one to watch in 2014: Oculus Rift
Wearable Tech 2013
Winner: Pebble Smartwatch
Runner-up: Misfit Shine
Loser: Samsung Galaxy Gear
The one to watch in 2014: Google Glass
Winner: Waze
Runner-up: Blackberry Messenger
Loser: Twitter #Music
The one to watch in 2014: Tinder
Mobile OS 2013
Winner: Android 4.4 KitKat
Runner-up: Apple iOS 7
Loser: Blackberry BB10
The one to watch in 2014: UBUNTU
Other Gadgets of 2013
Winner: Google Chromecast
Runner-up: NEST Project
Loser: Hapilabs Hapifork
The one to watch in 2014: Leap Motion
All graphics are courtesy Finances Online and designed by Ruby Media Corporation
Filed Under: OPINION, TECHNOLOGY Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Apple, asus, best, Blackberry, chrome book, chrome cast, gadgets, Google, HTC, ios, Leap Motion, microspft, Nest, pebble, playstation, Samsung, tech, technology, Twitter, waze, worst, xbox
Christmas Shopping: Final Weekend. Best Options.
And here we are: the final weekend of Christmas shopping. The last push to get everything on your never-ending list of perfect gifts for all those people you love, and those you are sort of obligated to love. In these final stressful hours of panic and claustrophobia galore, one thing always seems to elude us as consumers: bargain hunting. It's always a game of looking for the best deals right after Thanksgiving, with Black Friday being the culmination of it all. Yet as December 25th approaches, we find ourselves more and more concerned with getting anything at all, rather than getting something for the best price. And while yes, the smiles and laughter and joy of everyone's satisfied faces on Christmas morning are worth it, what sort of looming raincloud awaits your wallet once the festivities are over?
To help you out, here are seven simple substitutes to some of the hottest tech gifts of the season. Instead of buying that five-hundred dollar game console, why not opt for something half the price, and worth equal amounts of fun? Check out the alternatives, and don't go broke during these last few shopping-frenzied days.
Bose Soundlink Bluetooth Mobile Speaker II — $314.95
It's no secret that BOSE is the leader in sound technology and quality. The Bluetooth speaker is quickly emerging as the new big thing in speaker production. Not only do you not need to plug in your music device, but now the common dock for sound devices isn't even necessary. The music is wirelessly transmitted via bluetooth from your device to the speaker, and we don't have to tell you that the sound quality is pristine.
While BOSE is the leader in sound, it can be a little pricey. This speaker comes in at $314.95.
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Sonos Play 1 — $199.00
The Sonos Play 1 is a newer item to the market, offering the same technology of wireless music connectivity for a lower price. While the device may not have the namesake, the quality is there. The Sonos Play delivers music without wires or docking, and can offer multiple speakers (with purchase) playing from the same music device all at once.
The Sonos Play 1 is available starting at $199.00.
Apple TV — $99.00
So, you have iTunes, and tons of movies, but can only watch then on your iPhone or iPad. Same with your streaming Netflix account, Hulu Plus, HBO Go, etc. So what do you do? You get Apple TV. It's a device that takes these entertainment streams and puts them onto your television screen. Sound useful? It is. The device can be used to project photos, games, apps, YouTube, and so on. Only possible setback – if you don't have an apple device, it probably won't prove very useful.
Apple TV is available for $99.00.
Google Chromecast — $35.00
Google has recently come out with the answer to streaming devices such as Apple TV – the Google Chromecast. It's a small USB-looking device which does, well, the same thing. The Chromecast receives your streaming entertainment wirelessly and connects to your TV's HDMI hookup, displaying your media on the big screen. Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Google Chrome, HBO Go, and many other mediums are included, and at a much lower price.
The Google Chromecast is available for $35.00.
Apple iPad Air (32 GB with WiFi and LTE) — $729.00
Not much need be said about this one; Apple usually is in the forefront of the hottest tech items for the Christmas season. This year is no exception. The new iPad air is the lightest full-range tablet, with retina-display graphics and a pristine processor. The sleek look of the iPad is one of its biggest selling points, coupled with its reputation overall. The price, however, holds true to Apple standards, cutting a large dent into any purchaser's finances.
The iPad Air is available with multiple options from $499.00 to $929.00.
Google Nexus 7 (32 GB with WiFi and LTE) — $349.00
The Nexus 7 has been rated one of the best tablets for 2013 by techradar.com. While it might not be the holy grail of tablets, it's a very smart and sleek alternative. The device features countless apps and the display is sharper than most tablets on the market. For business or pleasure, if the iPad is too large an investment, the Nexus 7 would be the smart way to go.
The Google Nexus 7 is available with multiple options from $229.00 to $349.00.
Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch — $299.99
Smartwatches are emerging, and fast. It's not just a watch – it's connected to your phone. The most popular smartwatch on the market right now – The Samsung Galaxy Gear. This watch, with a digital touch display: displays your emails, displays your texts, locks/unlocks your phone, makes hands-free calls, uses voice commands, and more. The one big obvious negative – the watch only syncs with Samsung phones.
The Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch is available for $299.99.
Pebble Smartwatch — $150.00
The Pebble Smartwatch is a fully functional wireless smartwatch that syncs with Android and Apple smartphones. With a less colorful display, it's certainly an alternative to other smartwatches, but features a wide range of useful tasks, including text display, email display, music selection, alarms, and fitness apps. The Pebble does what you need for half the price.
The Pebble Smartwatch is available for $150.00.
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Apple iPhone 5s (32 GB) — $299.99
It's the hottest phone on the market, and the only smart-phone featuring fingerprint technology. The sleek iPhone 5s sells itself, boasting retina display, fingerprint recognition, a super-fast processor, and two HD cameras.
The iPhone 5s is available with multiple options from $199.00 to $399.00.
Apple iPhone 5c (32 GB) — $199.00
Same Phone. Same company. Four very different elements: The shell is plastic, as opposed to its aluminum counterpart on the 5s – A slightly slower processor – Only the rear camera is HD – No fingerprint technology. With all of these in mind, the difference of about 100 dollars certainly makes up for what is missing considering the phone is still a highly functioning iPhone.
The iPhone 5c is available with multiple options from $99.00 to $199.00.
Xbox One — $500.00+
This one will probably take the cake this year as the hottest selling item. The Xbox One sells itself. It supports the most popular games with the most pristine graphics, features streaming of movies and television shows, and features skype built in, to chat with fellow gamers or family & friends whenever you want. And, you can do all those things simultaneously. Given its popularity, the price of the One is rising as the Christmas deadline approaches, growing from a base price of $500. Retailers are selling it currently from as low as $500 to as high as $700 plus.
The Xbox One is available for at or around $500.00.
Wii U — $299.00
Trust us, they'll love this one just as much. Yes it's been on shelves for over a year, but the Wii U is still going strong, offering users an immersive gaming experience which puts the elements of the game both on the big screen and in their hands. The Wii U by all means stands up to the competition, and is nicely priced at 200 dollars less.
The Wii U is available for $299.00.
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Amazon Kindle Fire HDX (32 GB with WiFi and 4G) — $369.00
Tablets and readers: can't go wrong with those this Christmas. And the Kindle Fire HDX surely measures up. It features sharp color display, several apps and display options, WiFi, and 4G capability (addition monthly plan). This reader is more than a book reader, offering email, games, social media apps, and documents. If it's the reading you're serious about however, you might want to check out the alternative.
The Kindle Fire HDX is available with multiple options from $229.00 to $424.00.
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (WiFi and 3G) — $189.00
Plain and simple, it's a reader. There are no other functions like apps or video, just books. What makes the Paperwhite different is the display. The screen is lit to give readers full and clear resolution in any light – even in the dark. It's all you'll need, holding up to 1,100 books.
The Kindle Paperwhite is available with multiple options from $119.00 to $209.00
Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, TECHNOLOGY Tagged With: amazon, Apple, bose, chopping, Christmas, gadgets, Google, pebble, Samsung, sonos, tech, technology, Wii, xbox
Review: Quickoffice for iOS and Android
by Brian Booher
If there is one function that I want most of all in mobile devices in the ability to inter-operate between platforms. Since I like to get the best of all worlds, in this case iOS and Android, I don't like the idea of being locked down to a particular device just to be able to do work. I don't want to assume that the device I have my work on will be with me at all times, as I have had times where I needed something and the device I had at the time didn't have that item I wanted as it was on something else. This is why I have come to enjoy "Quickoffice".
Quickoffice is not anything new as for coming onto the app platforms, it has been out for a few years. Google bought them back in June 2012. If you don't remember this app from last year, here is the original logo.
I'll be honest that I had forgotten about Google buying this app last year, so I thought this was a completely new app. Oh how time flies.
The biggest thing they do promote in the app, regardless of platform, is signing into your Google Drive account, so you can make documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on your phone and have it uploaded to Google Drive to be accessible from a web browser or another device. You do have the ability to save directly on the device, but as suggestion, it would be best to save to both for backup purposes. Saving directly to your phone will allow for offline access in case you are in an area that does not have cell phone service, like a subway.
During my testing of both iOS and Android versions of the app, I found it to be very simple to use. The document creator was as simple as tapping on the screen to pull up the keyboard and type away. The spreadsheet was the same way, only if I wanted to do something like calculations, I would have to search through the list of functions like SUM. The presentation creator was as simple as double tapping on the cells to create titles and descriptions, just like on a desktop computer.
I wish there were some really awesome functions that isn't found on any other office productivity app, but I couldn't find them, though they are probably there and it wouldn't be a surprise if I told you on this review.
The app is free on iOS App Store and Android Play Store.
The iOS version is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. One app to rule them all!
If you use Apple's productivity apps like Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, I say give Quickoffice a try. Look at it as more of a backup of your documents to the cloud where you are not locked down to a single location. iCloud is a good place to store your documents, but it's only viewable on an Apple product. There might come a time where you need a document, but don't have access to an Apple device. Whereas iCloud gives only 5GB of free storage, Google Drive begins with 15GB of free storage. Any documents that you make on Google Drive does not count to your storage, although I want to say that I am not sure if documents you make on your phone or tablet will count. I will research that and update soon.
So go out there and have fun with making documents on the go, if there is a fun side to that.
Have Fun and Geek Out!
Filed Under: TECHNOLOGY Tagged With: android, app store, Apple, documents, Google, ios, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, keynote, numbers, office, pages, play store, quickoffice


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Q: PHP not getting $_POST from ajax post I'm trying to post data to the same page.
I can see that the post from the ajax is working correctly but the $_POST in my index.php isn't finding the post after form submission.
<form method="post" id="classic_login" action="">
    <input type="text" name="user" placeholder="Username" class="classic_field" id="user_field" />
    <input type="text" name="pass" placeholder="Password"  class="classic_field" id="pass_field" />
    <input type="submit" name="login" value="Login" class="classic_button" id="login_button" />
    <input type="submit" name="register" value="Register" class="classic_button" id="register_button" />
</form>

and I've tried both print_r($_POST) and isset both don't change after submission
print_r($_POST);
if(isset($_POST['user']) && isset($_POST['pass']))
   echo "works";

printing formdata after a test submission i get: user=testuser&pass=testpass
$("#classic_login").submit(function(event) {
    var formdata    =   $(this).serialize();
    event.preventDefault();

    $.ajax
    ({
        url: "",
        type: 'POST',
        data: formdata,
        //success: function(response) { alert(response); },
        error:  function() { alert("fail"); }
    });

});

A: Alternatively, you could use document.URL to make a request on the same page. Then in PHP, include an exit; after the request:
<?php

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
    echo '<pre>';
    print_r($_POST);
    exit; // this is important!
}

?>

<form method="post" id="classic_login" action="">
    <input type="text" name="user" placeholder="Username" class="classic_field" id="user_field" />
    <input type="text" name="pass" placeholder="Password"  class="classic_field" id="pass_field" />
    <input type="submit" name="login" value="Login" class="classic_button" id="login_button" />
    <input type="submit" name="register" value="Register" class="classic_button" id="register_button" />
</form>

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<script type="text/javascript">
$("#classic_login").submit(function(event) {
    var formdata  = $(this).serialize();
    event.preventDefault();

    $.ajax({
        url: document.URL, // you can use this
        type: 'POST',
        data: formdata,
        success: function(response) {
            alert(response);
        }
    });
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Educated at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y., Joyce Hill has been exhibiting her work since 1982.
Joyce Hill's mixed-media collage The Nightmare Seemed Real is available now at Dana Tillou Fine Arts, 1478 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216. Ph: (716) 854-5285. Hours: Wednesday – Friday, 10:30am – 5:00pm; Saturday, 10:00am – 4:00pm.