name macintosh was inspired by the apple variety, and the company came close to being called johnny appleseed. alan: the last one's not true. james: the last one has to be false. angie: great job. you know your apple company. alan: three in a row! first business continues right after this. matt shapiro, president of mws capital joins us for some chart talk on this friday. good morning. > >good morning angie. > >you manage people's portfolios. you know what happened this week with the fed---but is it time to stop obsessing about the federal reserve and keep a closer watch on the charts? > >absolutely. and with the market moving to fresh highs, that's exactly what the fed is trying to do. they said stop gaming us, stop obsessing about what we've been ding. we're going to keep on buying bonds and what they did was created an environment where 10 year yields which had been surging up to 3% affecting so many investments, fell dramatically. so the big story with the fall in yields to about 2.75 on the 10 year not and all those interest rate stocks---the utilities, the infrastructure plays all of a

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the catch is dean just that the cost of his transition from truck stop entrepreneur turned the johnny appleseed of biofuels. you can see that i had a tremendous amount of material covering the fastness of the country. silicon valley is in this book. wall street is in the book the power centers but so are these forgotten and left behind places like the rust belt and like the rural south, like the excerpts of tampa bay after the housing bust. i had to create a structure that could tell these stories in the manner of a big novel and the structure takes you through 30 years of american history. but it's not big history. it's not the big events of the past generation. it's this inner history of their lives which are always being pushed and acted upon by what is happening in places like wall street and washington. so it's history from the ground up but always under the influence of these larger forces that are gradually undoing the contract to hold america together and that these characters all grew up with. i will and with this passage from the middle of the book which comes just before the financia

passage that katchis price at the cusp of this transition from a truck stop of entrepreneur to johnny appleseed was biofuel but you can see i had a tremendous amount of material man silicon valley, wall street, a washington, the power centers also be forgotten and left behind places like the rest bell and rural south. the exurbs of tampa bay i had to retell the stories the structure takes you through 30 years of american history but it is not the the big generation but the history of their lives that is always being pushed and acted upon by what is happening in places like wall street and washington so it is history from the ground up under the influence of the forces that gradually and do the contract of america together that they grew up with. i will end with this passage from the middle of the book that comes just before the financial crisis which is a reckoning for price when the truck stop business fails and all the other characters in the book a two-lane asphalt road white oak and dash in the shadows of the trees year by year collapsing on a self the roof slopes inward nearby a a white ho

dozens of pies were served up at this years johnny appleseed festival in brunswick, ohio.nd hotdog champ joey chestnut took home the prize, downing 13 apple pies in eight minutes. he beat out fellow champ sonya the black widow thomas. chestnut shared his winning strategy. >> just to get into a rhythm, with breathing and drinking water. >> to not overstep your mouth, a good thing to remember. andchestnut says he had room for an other whole pie. the bay area native.nicknamed "jaws".won his seventh straight hot dog eating contest in july. >> you can meet "the family". and see an "insidious" new chapter of a popular horror franchise in theaters this weekend. here's melisa raney with this week's 'now showing' >> reporter: friday the 13th is a good day to take in a horror movie. >> and this thriller sequel >> this is part of the lambert family that is afraid that they are we encountering somebody from the spirit world. and old habits die hard with michelle pfeiffer and robert deniro and this relocation to a small town that cannot stay out of trouble. >> what happened on the firs

that's where johnny appleseed used to have his sources. we have louise senna, 112 years old today.ll over. morris goodman from west heartforheart hartford, connecticut. 100 yea old today. happy man and his favorite thing in life is turner classic movies. tcm. we have elva webster. 100 years old today. milk with every meal. put a little mustache like that commercial. i believe in milk. pure butter. real, 2%. milk. whole milk from the cow. naples, florida. it's the home of henry and sarah kaufman and they have been married for 75 years. they love each other very much and love to watch games on tv and like to play games, too. that's it. that's all. we have been playing games here for 50 years on the "today" show, or is it 60? i lose track of time. back to you. >> thanks. still to come on born today. the changing role of dads too. our dads weigh in. >> also blake shelton and you've seen, a new season of "the voice" and he might reveal new body art. but first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> in season five of the hit nbc reality competition "the voice," the original coaches are reunited. th