In a basement, somewhere between the scent of sawdust and the ticking of something handmade, a man named Roy Friesen lives on.

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The Dow Jones average fared the worst of the major indexes with a 7% drop, or roughly 300 points, despite gains for Apple AAPL. The 30-stock index sank below its 21-day exponential moving average.