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Deere price target raised to $215 from $198 at Citi
Citi analyst Timothy Thein raised the firm's price target on Deere to $215 from $198 and keeps a Neutral rating on the shares after hosting a virtual meeting with management. The analyst increased fiscal 2020 estimates on the back of Deere's "solid" fiscal Q3 results and out-year numbers go up on the higher earnings exit rate.
Roku, Comcast reach deal to carry Peacock on Roku, Verge reports » 18:0609/1809/18/20
Comcast (CMCSA) and Roku…
Comcast (CMCSA) and Roku (ROKU) have reached a deal months after NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming service rolled out, The Verge's Julia Alexander reports, noting that Peacock will be available to stream on Roku devices in the coming weeks. "We are pleased to have reached an agreement with Comcast that will bring Peacock to Roku customers and maintains access to NBCU's TV Everywhere apps," a Roku spokesperson said. "We look forward to offering these new options to consumers under an expanded, mutually beneficial relationship between our companies that includes adding NBC content to The Roku Channel and a meaningful partnership around advertising." Reference Link
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Condor Hospitality terminates merger agreement with NHT Operating Partnership » 17:5209/1809/18/20
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Condor Hospitality Trust announced that it has terminated its merger agreement with NHT Operating Partnership, the operating partnership of NexPoint Hospitality Trust and certain of its affiliates, effective immediately. Pursuant to its rights under the merger agreement, the company terminated the merger agreement due to failure of NHT's operating partnership to consummate the acquisition of the company and for material breaches of the merger agreement by NHT's operating partnership and its affiliates. Pursuant to the merger agreement, the company is entitled to receive a termination fee of $11.93M within five business days of its termination of the merger agreement. The company continues to reserve all other rights and remedies.
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SiTime CEO sells 30K shares of common stock » 17:3409/1809/18/20
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In a regulatory filing, SiTime CEO Rajesh Vashist disclosed the sale of 30,000 common shares of the company on September 16th in a total transaction size of $2.0M.
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Global Blue files to sell 208.84M ordinary shares, 9.77M warrants 17:3009/1809/18/20
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Point72 reports 5.0% passive stake in Fulcrum Therapeutics » 17:2809/1809/18/20
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Point72 Asset Management disclosed a 5.0% stake in Fulcrum Therapeutics, which represents over 1.38M shares. The filing does not allow for activism.
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Johnson Matthey to hold a webcast » 17:2509/1809/18/20
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Management holds a hydrogen webcast on September 18 at 5:30 pm. Webcast Link
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Point72 reports 7.3% passive stake in Dave & Buster's » 17:2409/1809/18/20
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Point72 Asset Management disclosed a 7.3% stake in Dave & Buster's, which represents over 3.45M shares. The filing does not allow for activism.
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Starwood Capital reports 8.39% stake in MFA Financial » 17:2009/1809/18/20
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Starwood Capital disclosed a 8.39% stake in MFA Financial, which represents over 38.0M shares. The filing does allow for activism. The filing indicates that the "Reporting Persons may communicate with the board of directors of the Issuer, members of management and/or other stockholders or other relevant parties from time to time with respect to operational, strategic, financial or governance matters or otherwise work with management and the board of directors with a view to maximizing stockholder value."
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Aspira Women's Health files to sell 3.15M shares of common stock for holders 17:0909/1809/18/20
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Tutor Perini CEO sells 40,000 common shares » 17:0609/1809/18/20
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In a regulatory filing, Tutor Perini chairman and CEO Ronald N. Tutor disclosed the sale of 40,000 common shares of the company on September 17 at a price of $12.71 per share.
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Ocean Power files to sell 3.72M shares of common stock for holders 17:0309/1809/18/20
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JanOne files $100M mixed securities shelf 17:0209/1809/18/20
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Granite Construction receives listing extension from NYSE » 17:0209/1809/18/20
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Granite Construction announced that it has received an extension for continued listing and trading of the company's common stock on the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE. The extension of an additional six months gives the company until March 18, 2021 to file its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 and its subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, subject to reassessment on an ongoing basis. The company can regain compliance at any time before that date by filing its 2019 Form 10-K and 2020 Form 10-Qs with the SEC. The NYSE will continue to closely monitor the company's restatement process and timing, and could initiate accelerated trading suspension prior to the end of the six-month extension if that process fails to progress satisfactorily during the extension. In addition, in the event the company does not file its 2019 Form 10-K and 2020 Form 10-Qs with the SEC by March 18, 2021, the NYSE will move forward with the initiation of suspension and delisting procedures.
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Uranium Energy announces $8M offering of units » 17:0209/1809/18/20
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Uranium Energy Corp. announced an underwritten public offering of units of the company at a price of $1.20 per unit, with each unit being comprised of one common share of the company and one-half of one common share purchase warrant to raise gross proceeds of up to $8M. The company anticipates that the net proceeds of the offering will be used to fund exploration and development expenditures at the company's projects and for general corporate and working capital purposes. H.C. Wainwright & Co. and Haywood Securities will be acting as joint book-running managers in connection with the offering.
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Algonquin Power names Arthur Kacprzak CFO » 17:0109/1809/18/20
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Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. announced the appointment of Arthur Kacprzak as Chief Financial Officer, assuming the role upon the retirement of CFO David Bronicheski. This transition is part of a multi-year initiative that was undertaken by APUC's Board of Directors to support a smooth shift to new leadership while maintaining the company's strong track record of growth and delivering long-term shareholder value. "I am extremely pleased to welcome Arthur into the CFO role," said Arun Banskota, President & Chief Executive Officer of Algonquin. "At $11 billion in assets, Algonquin is one of North America's fastest growing utilities, a global leader in renewable energy solutions, and a member of the blue chip TSX60 index. David's strong leadership and finance expertise over the last twelve years has contributed hugely to that success. We are immensely grateful for David's many contributions to Algonquin, and wish him much happiness in his retirement. I have full confidence that Arthur will continue the tradition of strong financial leadership and balance sheet management that has contributed over the years to Algonquin's long-term success."
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NorthWestern to transfer listing to Nasdaq » 17:0009/1809/18/20
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NorthWestern Corporation d/b/a NorthWestern Energy announced that it is transferring its stock exchange listing from The New York Stock Exchange after the end of trading on September 30, 2020 to The Nasdaq Global Select Market. NorthWestern's shares will begin trading as a Nasdaq-listed security on October 1, 2020 and will continue to trade under the ticker symbol NWE.
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Broadcom's Brazeal sells 2,000 common shares » 16:5709/1809/18/20
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In a regulatory filing, Broadcom chief legal officer Mark David Brazeal disclosed the sale of 2,000 common shares of the company on September 16 at a price of $367.54 per share.
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NBCU reaches pact to carry Peacock on Roku devices, Bloomberg says » 16:5609/1809/18/20
The deals averts a…
The deals averts a blackout of NBCUniversal (CMCSA) apps on Roku (ROKU) devices, according to Bloomberg.
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Suzano files to sell common stock for holders, no amount given 16:5309/1809/18/20
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U.S. Energy files $50M mixed securities shelf 16:3409/1809/18/20
American Renal Associates enters shareholder derivative litigation settlement » 16:3409/1809/18/20
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American Renal Associates announced that the company has received preliminary approval of the settlement of a stockholder derivative action brought by Plaintiff Luke Johnson and pending in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. The proposed settlement releases all claims asserted against the company and the other named defendants in the Johnson Action without any liability or wrongdoing attributed to them. The proposed settlement remains subject to court approval and other customary conditions. The proposed settlement does not involve a payment by or to ARA and will have no impact on ARA's financial condition or results of operations,
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Ocean Power enters new $12.5M common stock purchase deal w/ Aspire Capital » 16:3309/1809/18/20
Ocean Power announced it…
Ocean Power announced it has executed a new Common Stock Purchase Agreement with Aspire Capital Fund to sell up to $12.5M in common stock to Aspire Capital over a term of 30 months. Proceeds will be used by OPT to build additional PowerBuoys as needed "to meet potential market demand, to further advance the development of new products and solutions, and for other general corporate purposes."
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AirNet Technology receives deficiency letter from Nasdaq » 16:3109/1809/18/20
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AirNet Technology announced that it received a notification letter dated September 16, 2020 from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. notifying that the company is no longer in compliance with the Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550b1 for continued listing due to its failure to maintain a minimum of $2.5 million in stockholders' equity. In the company's Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, the company reported a negative stockholders' equity of approximately $19 million. Nasdaq also determined that the company does not meet the alternatives of market value of listed securities or net income from continuing operations for continued listing. The Deficiency Letter does not result in the immediate delisting of the company's ordinary shares represented by American depositary shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market. The company has 45 calendar days from the date of the Deficiency Letter, or until November 2, 2020, to submit a plan to Nasdaq to regain compliance with the minimum stockholders' equity standard. If the Compliance Plan is accepted by Nasdaq, the company may be granted a compliance period of up to 180 calendar days from the date of the Deficiency Letter to evidence compliance. However, since Nasdaq previously notified the company that its bid price compliance period expires on December 10, 2020, the Compliance Plan shall also set forth a plan to address the minimum bid price requirement by such date.
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Preliminary option volume of 36.7M today » 16:3009/1809/18/20
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Preliminary option volume of 36.7M today is 17% above recent average. Calls led puts 20.97M to 15.76M.
aTyr Pharma files to sell 3M shares of common stock for holders 16:3009/1809/18/20
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Just as southern states began to dig themselves out from the winter storm that paralyzed much of the country, Jon Stewart piled up the snow jokes on "The Daily Show."
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Amazed at how unprepared the state was to deal with the conditions, Stewart couldn't help but make mention of the fact that The Weather Channel is based in Georgia's capital city. "Not only were they warned, but the call was coming from inside the house. The Weather Channel is located in Atlanta, it's right there!"

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CROTCH-HOT: Dangerous vagina steaming method can lead to second-degree burns
There's many things steam is great for; vegetables, ironing, humidifiers, clearing your pores…but not your vagina.
A 62-year-old woman learned that the hard way when she steamed her vagina to help treat her vaginal prolapse — a condition where the vagina's support system weakens or breaks, causing it to prolapse (fall out of place).
Vaginal steaming (or v-steaming) is an alternative treatment that some people use to tighten and freshen the vagina and reduce menstrual cramps.
However, professional health experts remain skeptical towards the practise since there's no scientific research to back up its claims.
The method suggests adding fresh herbs to a pot filled with boiling water and then pouring it into a bowl in the toilet.
Then it's suggested the person remove their underwear and sit on the toilet while using a large blanket to cover the waist. The steaming process takes 10-12 minutes and can be repeated.
As per a Chinese doctor's advice, the woman used the method as a way to help her condition, but she received second-degree burns instead, according to the report published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Canada.
Despite feeling any pain or discomfort, the hot steam had burned the lining of her cervix and vagina, reported Forbes website.
Doctors like Magali Robert MD, MSc, a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Calgary, warn against this method as it can disturb the bodily functions.
"Clinicians need to be aware of alternative treatments available to women so that counselling may mitigate any potential harm," said Robert.
With continual use, the woman could have done serious damage by scalding her vagina.
She was advised to stop the practice and apply ointment to the burn and cover the affected area with gauze.
V-steaming has been known for centuries but was recently made popular by celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Chrissy Teigen.
However, the practice is alarming to health professionals who recognize the potential harm it inflicts on a woman's body.
Women's health expert and medical doctor Jennifer Wider says the most obvious concern is burning your vagina.
Wilder said vaginas should be kept at body temperature, any hotter and it can run into the risk of bad bacteria, yeast growth, slow down enzymes, and develop an itch.
"The vaginal area is sensitive and these types of burns can be painful and difficult to treat," Wider told Women's Health Magazine.
It might be time to toss out that hot-pot of yours.


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At this stage, there is no reliable information relating specifically to the design of supersonic propulsion combustion systems, but there is no reason to believe that the degree of inefficiency should be any different from subsonic types. Emissions arising from this form of inefficiency are discussed in Section 7.5. The fundamental nature of the proportion of CO2 and H2O emitted with conventional fuels and similar proportions of sulfur in available fuels suggests that these emittants will be produced in the same proportion to fuel usage as in the subsonic fleet, though at supersonic cruise they will be deposited in the stratosphere.
Assessments of advanced supersonic aircraft concentrate on long-range over-water routes but do not assume that such routes will be served exclusively by supersonic services. It is now assumed that supersonic flight will occur only over water. The combination of overland routes where sonic booms are unacceptable and fitting into daily cycles will preserve a place for long-range subsonic services to meet airport curfews and provide passengers with comfortable time zone changes.
Research programs to develop low NOx combustion systems for cruise are in place in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Two basic combustion concepts are being researched to produce ultra-low NOx levels at supersonic cruise conditions. These technologies-the Lean Premixed Prevaporized (LPP) and Rich Burn Quick Quench (RBQQ)-utilize both lean and rich combustion concepts such as those shown in Figure 7-42 on the previous page. As a result of low combustor operating pressures in supersonic transport applications, these concepts appear capable of achieving their full ultra-low NOx reduction potential while maintaining satisfactory durability and performance. In subsonic transports, the higher pressures dictate compromises in both concepts to avoid incipient flashback in the LPP and excessive soot production in the RBQQ.
The LPP concept has the likely potential of reaching the lowest levels of NOx. The intent of premixing is to provide the combustion zone with a very lean, uniform fuel/air mixture that is just above the flame extinction limit. This approach results in a low flame temperature with enough residence time to complete combustion and produce low NOx. Maintaining uniform fuel/air mixtures throughout the combustor is critical because NOx increases rapidly with any local fuel/air maldistribution. In practice, premixing is achieved with large numbers of small-diameter premixers. Design challenges with this concept include flashback or auto-ignition in the premixer, maintaining combustion near the lean extinction limit over the entire engine cycle operating span, potential fuel clogging of small-diameter fuel injectors, and complexity of the design because of fuel staging requirements.
The RBQQ concept is a derivative of an axially staged combustor and presents the more stable combustion configuration. The fuel/air mixture of the primary combustion zone is fuel-rich, thus producing low flame temperatures and low NOx. In a second stage, air is quickly introduced to mix with the partially reacted fuel. Combustion is completed in a final stage at lean conditions. Most of the NOx is produced in the second stage and is a function of the uniformity and time it takes to dilute the reacting mixture. Design challenges with this concept include indirect cooling of the primary combustion zone-which may require high-temperature ceramic materials currently under development-and an advanced second stage that produces nearly instantaneous, uniform mixing of reacting gas and air. Furthermore, this design may require engine power-related control of air and/or fuel staging for practical implementation.
There are three active programs in which this research is being conducted:
Under laboratory and component test cell conditions, very low levels of NOx below EI(NOx) = 5 have been achieved at simulated engine operating conditions of pressure, temperature, and fuel flow with combustor sectors. This result gives credence to the view that EI(NOx) = 5 could well be achieved in engine tests scheduled after the year 2000. The intrinsic outputs from combustion of conventional fuels are more difficult to alleviate. With kerosene as a fuel, for every ton of fuel burned, 3.2 tons of CO2 and 1.2 tons of water are produced.
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text: As thoughts turn to love this Valentine's Day, we take time to acknowledge the automotive objects of our affection. These are the cars we love. Yes, it is possible to love a car, just as it is possible to hate a car. Cars are funny that way. They can inspire a whole range of emotions, even among those who see them simply as a means of getting from Point A to Point B. For the truly afflicted among us, cars leave an indelible mark upon our lives. Even on Valentine's Day, though, it's hard to show our appreciation to the cars we love. After all, there aren't heart-shaped bottles of engine oil. But we can acknowledge them with some pretty awesome photos. So instead of wasting money on overpriced flowers or a lousy dinner in a crowded restaurant, sit back, crank up some Golden Earring and imagine yourself on a stretch of deserted road. It's time to fall in love all over again. Ferrari 250 GTO I know, I know. It's an easy, almost obvious choice, but c'mon — it's the Ferrari GTO. It isn't about what it costs (Roughly $30 million, give or take, in the unlikely event you find one for sale). It isn't about it being an icon. Hell — it isn't even about it being heartbreakingly beautiful. I love the Ferrari 250 GTO for what it was, and what it remains: a pitch-perfect symphony of speed and style. It was a car you could drive to a race, take first place and drive home again. The Ferrari 250 GTO was the last of the true sports racers built by the best automaker on the planet, and as such it will always be special. — Tony Borroz Photo: FerrariLotus Elan Legendary automotive genius-slash-cheapskate Colin Chapman built it. British engineering whiz Ron Hickman designed it. It weighs around 1,600 pounds and produces just over 100 horsepower. Its chassis is made of sheet steel so thin you can bend it with your bare hands. McLaren F1 designer Gordon Murray famously called the 1962–1975 Lotus Elan the greatest sports car ever built, and he may have been right. He also may have been bonkers. I bought an Elan last year, having wanted one since I was 8. It sits in my garage, a perfect counterpart to my 1988 BMW M3 that never breaks, never leaks and seems entirely too normal. The Elan, by contrast, is nothing but abnormality. Its doors and top don't keep water out. Its fiberglass body doesn't rust, but its spindly backbone frame — packaging genius, even if you can't work on it without slicing off a knuckle — cracks and falls apart if you have the audacity to actually drive the car on modern roads. Its lack of reliability is legendary: If there are three ways for an Elan part to break or fail, each of them will occur, often simultaneously. Oil leaks resemble Niagara Falls, only black. These complaints disappear the moment you drive it. The engine sings, the straight-line performance rivals that of modern cars, and the steering is perfect. The suspension works like every suspension has ever worked in your dreams — comfortable and yet razor-sharp, with impossibly immediate turn-in. I don't love the Lotus, I adore it. I also kind of hate it, but that's mostly because it swallowed a pint of my blood when I replaced the motor mounts last month. Love is a funny thing. Abusive relationships are relationships, too. And if I wanted a vanilla existence, I'd go buy a Mazda Miata and marry someone comatose. What a horrible, fantastic, frustrating, amazing little car. — Sam Smith Photo: Sam SmithSaab 9-5 It's depressing to be alone on Valentine's Day, nursing the wounds of a recent breakup. That's just what owners of 2011 Saab 9-5s are experiencing, devoid of heart-shaped boxes of chewy Russell Stovers or the warm comfort of a factory warranty's embrace. Like most star-crossed lovers, Saab buyers entered relationships with their cars based more on emotion than reason, and tragedy predictably ensued. "This time will be different," they rationalized, falsely comforted by promises of full maintenance, all the while ignoring the automaker's Laser Red balance sheet and vague ties to the Russian underworld. But as the J. Geils Band so eloquently sang, love stinks. Your dealer is gone, repairs aren't guaranteed and even the Saab museum is being auctioned to the highest bidder. We feel your pain. Though it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel now, we know you'll love again. The 9-5 wasn't even good enough for you -- nothing more than a last-generation Buick in a tight dress, and certainly no Saab Sonett or 900 SPG. We know a great Volvo S60 you could take for a test drive, and we bet you'd really hit it off. But for now, wallow in your misery and unpaid repair bills. Just make sure to hit the "Night Panel" button so the mechanic can't tell that you're crying in the driver's seat. —Keith Barry Photo: SaabPontiac Bonneville My grandfather worked for Pontiac his entire life, which meant he always had a new car in the driveway. My earliest memory of these glorious cars is of sticking my finger into the tip of Annabelle's cigarette lighter. "Oh Jimmy," my grandmother said as I screamed from the back seat, "you don't mess with Grandma's magic car." Annabelle was magical indeed, a beautiful 1967 Pontiac Bonneville the color of Grand Traverse Bay on a summer afternoon. My mother inherited her and took us everywhere in that car: soccer practice, football games, church on Sunday mornings and to school on those rare occasions we missed the bus. It wasn't a car so much as a boat, a big barge of American steel floating along as if on a cloud. By the time I got my learner's permit, Annabelle had gone to the junk heap and was replaced by a '76 Bonneville as blue as the open ocean. If Annabelle was as cool as a summer breeze, that '76 was hotter than a $20 iPhone. Annabelle made me love riding, and the beast that replaced her made me love driving. That four-wheeled barge and I went everywhere together: out Old Mission Peninsula to the lighthouse, on road trips to Grand Rapids and around and around and around the downtown strip. That car taught me how to drive, and in the end I taught it how to fly. It's a long story, but suffice to say when the ambulance finally arrived everyone was amazed I was alive, let alone suffering from nothing more than a split lip. In the years since, I've owned faster cars, more practical cars and cars that certainly got better gas mileage. But every once in awhile, when I'm on the road with the wind in my hair, the stereo up loud and the road stretching ahead, I can't help but remember that old Bonneville, the car that made me love driving. — Jim Merithew, Wired.com photo director Image: General Motors1987 Buick Grand National GNX There's nothing subtle about the Buick Grand National. It oozes late '80s mustachioed sleaze. It's not a performance car you drive to the country club. It's a performance car that compels country club members to call the police and complain about drug-dealing gangbangers driving too close to the main gate. This is the car that, even now, seems all too appropriate with Boston's "More Than a Feeling" blasting through a pair of 6x9s. This is the car that only came in one color, black, just to make an angry statement. This is the car in which perpetually pissed-off malcontents hide their guns. Look at the absurdly blocky lines. Look at the cheesy interior. Look at the ridiculous rear windows. These aren't deliberate design statements. They're vestigial holdovers from the car's progenitor, the Buick Regal, a vehicle designed to make middle-class middle-managers stuck in dead-end jobs feel like coddled royalty. And that's one reason I love the GNX: It looks so incredibly wrong, it's actually right. But the 1987 GNX would be nothing without its obscene power from a turbocharged V6 hitting about 300 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque. These are the car's honest-to-God dyno numbers, not the watered-down BS General Motors advertised. It can do 0 to 60 in 4.5 seconds. Think about that: 4.5 seconds. In a Buick. The GNX was the fastest American car you could buy in 1987, and it could run with the best Italian exotics of the day. Well, at least until the first curve. Then all bets were off. It's a beast. It's borderline offensive. It makes no sense. I love it. — Jon Phillips, Gadget Lab editor Photo: General MotorsE30 BMW 325is Size matters. So does simplicity. Ask anyone who's driven an E30 325is. The two-door "compact executive car" — just big enough to cram three friends into the back seat in a pinch — couldn't have been any less complicated: a 2.5-liter straight six driving the rear wheels through a 5-speed manual and a limited-slip differential. It was small, it was basic and it weighed scarcely more than a Mazda Miata. It was what every modern BMW aspires to be: the ultimate driving machine. The 325is is too often overlooked in favor of the manic E30 M3, but it was a better driver's car if you drove everywhere, every day. The inline-six was impossibly smooth and torquey, making it both easy to drive and respectably fast. It made 167 horsepower, which may not sound like much today but in a car weighting just 2,850 pounds was enough to spin the tires in the first three gears. I especially love the 1989-1992 models with the more desirable small bumpers. It hit the automotive sweet spot, combining classic attributes like small tires, five speeds and ridiculous simplicity with modern features like ABS, fuel injection and modern safety equipment. BMWs have in the years since the E30 skewed toward ever larger, heavier and, frankly, less involving automobiles, leaving gearheads to long for the days when BMW truly built the Ultimate Driving Machine. — Wes Siler Photo: BMWMcLaren F1 Who didn't fall in love with the McLaren F1 when obsessive-compulsive genius Ron Dennis unleashed it in 1992? Any sentient sports car aficionado felt irresistibly drawn to such a pure design in a worldd sullied by compromise. No expense was spared in the pursuit of perfection, from the pioneering use of a carbon fiber monocoque to the screaming 6.1-liter BMW V12 to the two Kevlar fans that literally sucked the car toward the ground to increase downforce. The engine bay even featured heat shields made of gold foil. It was a racecar for the street, a 243-mph missile that weighed about as much as a Mazda Miata. The F1 was so potent that McLaren had to tone it down before competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans — which it won, naturally. Though I've got an impending date with the stunning new McLaren MP4-12C, I've never driven an F1 — and, likely never will. During a pilgrimage to BMW's Classic Center in Munich while working on my coffee table book Legendary Race Cars, I was denied a request to merely sit in one; so rare is this supercar, of which only 100 or so were built. Jay Leno recently told me the 12C just might be more satisfying to drive. As much as I respect Jay's opinion on all things wheeled, the McLaren F1 always will be the one that got away. — Basem Wasef Photo: McLaren AutomotiveMercedes-Benz 500 E Ah, the 500 E. This sleeper was a sublime mix of class and power, an autobahn ace putting down 322 horsepower from a 5.0-liter V8. It could hit 60 mph in less than 5.5 seconds. Even now, those figures are impressive. In 1991, they were staggering. Although it wore Benz badges and was based on the big E Class sedan, the 500 E was built with help from Porsche. That's right, the Panamera isn't first sedan to roll out of a Porsche factory. The process was almost laughably laborious, requiring 18 days and several trips between the two companies' factories to complete each car. In a day when the amazing BMW M5 can rip your lips off and the Porsche Panamera is fast enough to warp time, it's easy to wonder what makes the Mercedes-Benz 500 E so special. Simple. The 500 E sat at the intersection of modern engineering and old-world craftsmanship, and it was built not because it should be, but because it could be. — Jason Kambitsis Photo: Mercedes-Benz1970 Porsche 911S For Porsche, 1970 was a very good year. The company's top model, the 911S, was a 2.2-liter, 180-horsepower sports car unencumbered by the weight of the safety and emission mandates soon to saddle and shackle so many cars. At less than 2,300 pounds, the Porsche 911S offered as pure a driving experience as could be imagined. But the joy of driving a 1970 911S is but part of the experience. To sit behind the wheel is to revel in the glory of a year in which Porsche all but dominated motorsports. In 1970 Porsche won the Rally Monte Carlo (in a 911S), the overall Rally title, the 24 Hours of Daytona, the 24 Hours of LeMans (for the first time) and the Targa Florio to name just a few. Oh, and when Steve McQueen needed a car to drive during the opening sequence of the movie Le Mans, he of course drove a 1970 Porsche 911S. More than 40 years later, the 1970 Porsche 911S remains one of the finest sports cars ever. — Jason Paur Photo: PorscheVolkswagen Super Beetle The car I love most is a car I never drove. It was a 1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle, green with a black vinyl interior that would char your skin on a hot summer day. My parents bought it early in the Carter administration, a decidedly low-key replacement for the '67 Chevrolet Impala convertible that finally bought the farm. The Bug was as slow as it was archaic. I have no idea how many miles it had when we bought it, but it trundled all over creation and back without complaint. Still, even a Beetle won't run forever, especially one that leaked so heavily you'd have thought it was British. When it finally came time to rebuild the engine, dad fired up the heater in the garage, cracked open a dog-eared copy of How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive and set to work. He was 32, I was 12. He'd never attempted anything so daunting as rebuilding an engine, even one so simple as a Beetle boxer four. It took us the better part of the winter, working here and there as my father's schedule and budget, not to mention a particularly brutal Iowa winter, allowed. That car opened my eyes to the wonder of internal combustion and instilled in me a love of all things mechanical. I learned how to gap a spark plug, find top dead center and adjust a carburetor. More than that, I learned the value of patience, the importance of precision and the feeling of pride that accompanies a job well done. Those lessons have served me well, even if I haven't always heeded them. The Beetle moved on a few years later, and my father died in October. As I was going through his office, I found that copy of How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive. I could only smile as I leafed through pages bearing greasy fingerprints left by a father teaching his son about much more than engine repair. That book sits on a shelf in my living room, a reminder that cars sometimes take us on journeys that continue long after we reach our destination. — Chuck Squatriglia Photo: Volkswagen


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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at Stepto's Bar-B-Q Shack in Evansville, Ind. on Saturday.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Mitt Romney stumped with Tea Party favorite Richard Mourdock on Saturday at a barbecue shack here, seeking to link himself with the popular conservative who unseated a longtime Washington incumbent earlier this year.
"We gotta get this guy elected to the U.S. Senate," Romney began his speech at Stepto's Bar-B-Q Shack, a small restaurant off the main highway in Evansville.
As he praised Mourdock, the state treasurer who defeated six-term senator Dick Lugar in the state's May Republican primary, he seemed to try to affiliate himself with the Tea Party principles Mourdock played up, like a balanced budget.
"You can't keep spending massively more than you take in," Romney said as he explained his five key principles for economic recovery. As the crowd drowned him out in applause, he continued, "A treasurer knows that. A governor knows that."
"There's only one place in America that doesn't seem to understand that you can't keep spending massively more than you take in every year, and that's Washington. And one reason we're both going there is to change Washington," he said.
While this event was billed as a Mourdock campaign event, Romney spent just as much time slamming President Barack Obama, criticizing him for breaking his promise to keep unemployment under 8 percent.
But Mourdock took the spotlight back at the end of the event, criticizing his Democratic Senate opponent, Joe Donnelly, as Romney worked the dining room shaking hands.
"While the governor's doing that, I have to share with all of you a thought I had coming in today, how proud I am to stand next to the president of the United States, Mitt Romney. And it's funny, my opponent, Joe Donnelly, doesn't want to be seen with their candidate, isn't that amazing?"
Immediately after his short remarks, Romney headed to a fundraiser at the home of local entrepreneur Steven Chancellor, the CEO of the American Patriot Group, the parent company of several subsidiaries.


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Loyal Buddy has a new home
DANBURY -- Buddy has new owners, a fitting conclusion for the twice-rescued 9-year-old German shepherd mix who proved his loyalty under the most dramatic conditions.
Maureen and Brendan Walsh, of Danbury, have adopted Buddy, who is showing kindness to their aged cat, Dre, and displaying manners, playfulness and gratitude in his new home.
"My heart went out to him," Maureen Walsh said Tuesday. "I think it was the loyalty he showed. He showed restraint and he pulled the heartstrings."
Walsh brought Buddy home Nov. 26 from Noah's Ark Animal Hospital in Danbury, where he spent three weeks after being found in his house on Hayestown Avenue with his owner, John Gudele, who had died.
Police thought Gudele died soon after Oct. 1. While Buddy had only a small bag of food to eat and a dripping faucet for water for five weeks, he never hurt his owner. Experts said dogs without food for so long would likely begin to eat a human body.
John Conlea, Gudele's best friend from childhood, had been visiting Gudele daily and last saw him Oct. 1 before he and his wife, Lenette, left for a trip to Florida.
When Conlea returned from vacation and went to visit Gudele on Nov. 6, he heard the dog but had no response from Gudele. He called the police.
Jina Wellington, who knew Gudele for nearly 20 years, and Buddy since Gudele adopted him four years ago, arranged for the dog to go to Noah's Ark.
There Dr. Jeffrey Hubsher, veterinarian and owner, treated Buddy for chronic ear infections and organized the hunt for a new home.
Conlea and his wife, Gudele's cousin, are thrilled Buddy had a new home.
"It's wonderful,'' Conlea said, when he heard about Buddy's new place.
Walsh said she called the animal hospital Nov. 17, the day the first story about Buddy appeared in The News-Times. She said she was walking with a friend and the friend's dog early that morning, and they used her friend's cell phone to learn if Buddy was still at the animal hospital.
Walsh started visiting him and walking him after work.
The Walshes had a German shepherd/ Rottweiler mix named Lucky that died in February at 12 years old. He was a rescue, too, and they were not afraid to take an older dog like Buddy.
"He's actually settled in so easily," Walsh said. "It's nice to hear the jingle of the collar as before. It's been a nice transition."
Walsh said Buddy is fine on walks with other dogs and is very social.
Brendan Walsh said when he and his wife leave for work together in the morning, Buddy doesn't want them to go, but they know he will settle down.
"He wasn't used to the cat. We could see that," Brendan Walsh said. "Over a period of the first three or four days, he followed her around. He's very gentle. You can tell by the way his tail goes he just wants to play."
Walsh praised the staff of the animal hospital for being so good to Buddy and for taking time to interview people so they could place him in the right home.
Hubsher said when he got the call about Buddy and heard the circumstances, he knew he should do something.
"We have a very wonderful community, and with what we could provide him in medical care and what the community could provide in love, there was no question in my mind that things would work out fine," the veterinarian said.
"This was an opportunity to do good. You have to watch for these opportunities and take advantage of them," he said. "It's one of the reasons I love the job. I feel good. We did good. I'm blessed to be able to do this. I believe that whatever good you do comes back to you.'
Walsh hopes those who inquired about adopting Buddy will pursue other dogs.
"There are always dogs for rescue," she said. "They may not have gotten Buddy, but there are other dogs who need homes, too."
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Taunton man charged with stealing from, defiling Westport church
Religious items stolen from St. John the Baptist Church on March 1
What will happen to Martin Cutler in man's courts might be the least of his worries, the Herald News reported.
Cutler, 29, of 73 Broadway Ave., Taunton, has been arrested and charged with the burglary and theft of holy objects from St. John the Baptist Church, 945 Main Road, Westport.
Stolen in the March 1 break were candlesticks, the tabernacle and other objects used for Mass. Some of the objects were sold for scrap. Others were broken into pieces.
Cutler is charged with intimidation of a witness, desecration of a place of worship causing over $5,000 in damages, breaking and entering in the night time for a felony, malicious damage and larceny over $250.
Cutler is also charged with use of a poison with intent to injure. Police allege Cutler urinated infected bodily fluids into holy water in the church.
In an investigation spanning Westport, New Bedford, Bourne, Mattapoisett and Taunton, police believe they have reason to charge several individuals, including Cutler's brother, Jesse Cutler.


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Sweet Treats in Honolulu
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Everyone knows about Leonard's malassadas, Liliha Bakery's coco puffs, Bubbies' mochi ice cream, Ted's Bakery's chocolate haupia pies; they're all household names and potluck favorites. But an entire world of sweets exists outside of these mainstays, sweets that may not make cameos on Hawaii Five-0, but still elicit joy when presented at a party, even if it's a party of one on the couch. Here are a few of our favorite confections.
"I consider myself the Doughnut King," says Jessie Salvador, general manager and creator of Regal Bakery's cheerful cake doughnut concoctions, which include li hing pineapple, green tea, vanilla crunch (a vanilla doughnut topped with cornflakes), lemon crumb (a lemon cake doughnut with lemon icing and lemon streusel) and "Da Kreyz," a glorious melding of doughnut and crème brûlée.
Donuts channeling cupcake creative energy have been a trend on the Mainland for a few years now, but Salvador is the first to bring nouveau cake donuts to Hawaii. "Everybody loves doughnuts, that's what I know," he says. Not that everyone agreed with him at first, particularly his wife, who protested that no one eats doughnuts in Hawaii. Still, Salvador made plans to leave his employer, Regal Foods, which also owns Regal Diner, to pursue his own doughnut business. But rather than lose him, Regal Foods gave Salvador free license in its new retail bakeshop, Regal Bakery. Two months later, the bakery had transformed into an all-doughnut showcase, with cake doughnuts front and center, though the maple bacon yeast doughnut occasionally steals the show. These days, fans are proving Salvador's wife wrong, crowding this industrial corner by the airport to sample his creations. Doughnuts range from 90 cents to $2. 3040 Ualena St., 834-4423.
from Downtown Coffee
Downtown Coffee understands that great coffee needs great sweets. Its yuzu orange bar ($3.54) plays bright citrus flavors against a chocolate crust, while the matcha and bamboo charcoal torte ($3.54) is subtly sweet (and purportedly healthy). 900 Fort Street Mall, Suite 100, 599-5353.
Spanish Bread
from Nanding's Bakery
At first glance, they look like Olive Garden bread rolls, down to the cornmeal dusting on top, but a bite into fresh Spanish bread (three for $1) from Nanding's Bakery yields a sweet, buttery filling. Two locations: 918 Gulick Ave., 841-4731, and 94-216 Farrington Highway, Waipahu, 678-0828.
from Ono Pops
Exuberantly creative, OnoPops' paletas riff on classic local flavors such as POG and guava chiffon cake, while also forging surprising flavor combinations such as Kava Coco Water and Kalamansi Coriander. $3 each. Available at Foodland, Whole Foods and multiple farmers' markets, call 354-2949 or visit onopops.com for locations.
Rice Pudding
at Tangö Market
Tangö turns rice to riches in its luscious rice pudding cup ($3.95). Make sure to dig deep with your spoon for the berry compote at the bottom. 1200 Ala Moana Blvd.,
Chocolate Dipped Bacon
from EAT
A few of the shops we've listed incorporate bacon into their sweet treats, but only EAT serves a slice of thick-cut bacon as dessert. It's lightly candied and dipped in chocolate, just enough so that you can still taste the salty, smoky pork. $3 each. 560 N. Nimitz Highway, Suite 102, 538-0597, eathonolulu.com.
from La Tour Café
Vying with cupcakes and doughnuts on the "hot" end of the trend meter, macarons are delicate shells of almond meringue sandwiching flavored buttercream or chocolate ganache. La Tour Café's colorful assortment ($1.75 each) includes mango, Melona, yuzu, red velvet and coffee. 888 N. Nimitz Highway, Suite 101, 697-5000, latourcafe.com.
from Camille's on Wheels
Camille's take on capirotada, a Mexican bread pudding, tastes like a cross between bread pudding and fruitcake. It incorporates dried fruit, apples, tangerine syrup and piloncillo (Mexican brown sugar) and is served with a dollop of softly whipped cream. $3 a slice. Follow this food truck on Twitter: @camillesonwheel.
from Fendu Boulangerie
Where to start? With a petite apple crumble pie ($5.25)? Or a Valrhona dark chocolate dome revealing a Grand Marnier cream ($5.75)? Get everything. At Fendu, Honolulu's finest example of a French patisserie, even a humble pound cake ($4.50) is elevated to a haute dessert. Manoa Marketplace, 2752 Woodlawn Drive, 354-0736
from Short n Sweet Bakery
While all our previous sweets can be found on Oahu, an unexpected find in Hilo reveals a high-quality bakery that we wish would move to Honolulu. Short n Sweet makes an assortment of breads, croissants, pies, cupcakes, cookies, and candies (savory goods as well). Forced to pick, we'd go with the Kohala crunch bar, with layers of crushed macadamia nut brittle, feuilletine (thin sugar flakes), and milk chocolate topped with a bittersweet chocolate ganache and cocoa powder. The banana cream pie is also a winner, featuring a real butter crust, vanilla custard and bananas, topped with pillows of fresh whipped cream. 374 Kinoole St., Hilo, 935-4446, shortnsweet.biz.


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In Climate Accounting, Fire's an Orphan
By Jon Luoma
The frenzied 2002 wildfire season on the front range of the Rocky Mountains southwest of Denver got an early and intense start. On an April afternoon, teenagers sneaking a cigarette in the woods behind Platte Canyon High School on the edge of the town of Bailey inadvertently set off the first big one, a conflagration that would sweep across 2,600 acres.
That had Chris Hendrick and his wife, Beatrice, scrambling. Chris, a Spanish teacher and coach at the high school, wound up rushing back toward home from an afternoon track meet at another school after he got word of the fire, which at first had seemed tamed but was spreading fast.
Beatrice, meanwhile, found herself loading their two small children and a couple of other kids she was looking after into their minivan after smoke began to billow menacingly over a ridge near their home a few miles from town.
Their house was never actually threatened, but in what Chris called "a really scary year," fires kept coming "one after another after another. We were waking up almost every morning to the smell of smoke."
The June Hayman Fire, only about five miles east of Bailey, was the worst of that terrible season—in fact, the worst wildfire in Colorado's recorded history. Propelled by dry winds, it raced across 60,000 acres on a single day, in the end scorching 138,000 acres across four counties. Although much of the burned landscape was within the Pike National Forest, the fire destroyed 133 homes on surrounding forested private land and forced more than 5,000 people to evacuate.
Jennifer Balch
In the summer of 2008, I drove with Hendrick down a steep winding road through a section of the Hayman Fire landscape. Firefighters had managed to save several dream homes scattered on the slopes here, but the dream views were gone. The houses sat incongruously and eerily intact in a ghost forest of charred and blackened trunks and broken-off boles.
It was a firsthand look at one of the consequences of two decades of drought in the American West, but also at a consequence of the all-too-human desire to live in wild and beautiful natural landscapes, including landscapes whose nature it is to burn from time to time. One could, more or less, mark the beginning of two decades of drought with the fires that raged through about two-thirds of Yellowstone National Park in 1988. And one couldn't fail to notice the most recent manifestation of the paradox of that human desire to live in the midst of combustible fuel with August's headlines about the 20-mile wall of flame that devoured entire swaths of suburban and exurban Los Angeles. These are not merely phenomena of the United States: Last summer also offered up media images of big fires glowing in suburban zones within sight of Athens' Parthenon, a reprise of a horrific 2007 fire season in Greece. And early in 2009, in the intense heat of a down-under summer, parcels of Australia's Victoria state went violently ablaze, trapping and killing scores.
Wildfire, of course, has been part of life on Earth's vegetated lands since there were vegetated lands or, at least, vegetation dry enough to ignite in the presence of abundant oxygen and a source of ignition: lightning or volcanic ember. But there do appear to be new factors at play. The world's tropical rainforests are being set ablaze to clear land for agriculture. In both tropical and temperate zones, the world appears to be experiencing more large, uncontrolled fires. In some areas where fires haven't yet burned, entire landscapes have been unwittingly manipulated into hyperflammable disasters-in-waiting. Fire, meanwhile, is interacting with a changing global climate in ways that are, as yet, poorly understood and inadequately accounted for by existing science, even though those interactions include snowballing "feedback effects," whereby warmer climate begets more drought, begets more fire, begets more carbon emissions, begets more warming.
Those are some of the key conclusions of a remarkable article titled "Fire in the Earth System," which appeared in April in the journal Science. Authored by 22 experts in fire science from six nations, the piece is a sweeping, if condensed, overview of what the scientific world knows, and doesn't know, about fire on Earth.
David Bowman, a fire ecologist at the University of Tasmania and one of the paper's two lead authors, says the work is the first of its kind. It came about after scholars who study various aspects of fire got together at a two-week conference in 2008 to try to put the subject into what Bowman calls "some kind of unified synthetic framework." Previously, he says, fire had been studied piecemeal from an array of perspectives—fire management, fire ecology, pollution epidemiology—"but the whole has never been seen."
The paper's other lead author, Jennifer Balch, Ph.D. '08, began her own research on fire in the Amazon rainforests while still a doctoral candidate at F&ES. Now a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which helped host the conference, Balch sums up the epiphany that came as the expert participants began to compare notes.
"You could almost see the light bulbs starting to go off," she said. "We began to see what a huge player fire has been on the Earth, a much bigger player than anyone really appreciated."
One key conclusion of the Science article got some news media attention: that the deforestation fires set to clear land, today principally in the tropics, are contributing far more to climate change than accounted for in projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to an estimate the authors admit is preliminary, these fires alone have accounted for nearly one-fifth of human-caused global warming to date.
But the study is even more far-reaching. It looks at factors ranging from human evolution and history in relation to fire to the reasons why recent fires are often larger and more destructive. In the end, the article calls not only for more attention to the role wildfire plays in climate change, but also for a far more integrated scientific approach to what the conference dubbed "pyrogeography," the study of the myriad aspects of fire on Earth.
Balch sums up the big picture this way: "Fire is as elemental as air or water. We live on a fire planet. We are a fire species."
We live on Balch's "fire planet" because, she explains, the Earth and its living systems have been interacting with fire for about 400 million years. Fire has affected planetary and ecosystem factors that range from levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the cycling of the nutrient phosphorus.


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Despite an increase in wealth, a proven track record of financial progress and greater overall financial confidence, the African-American community still has little contact with the financial advisory community, says a recently released study by Prudential Financial titled "The African-American Financial Experience."
According to the study, the second of its kind, approximately four in 10 African-American households surveyed have annual incomes of at least $75,000, and nearly a quarter earn $100,000 or more. And yet, says Michael Davis, senior vice president of stable value at Prudential Retirement, most of these folks haven't yet been privy to the kind of financial planning support that they require to achieve their financial goals.
"This should serve as a wake-up call for financial advisors to build up the connectivity that's missing," Davis says, not least because half of the African-Americans surveyed say they believe working with an advisor would help them make better financial decisions and only 19% even have a financial advisor.
Of course, there is a "barbell of experiences" within the broader community, Davis says, which means that some members are doing far better than others, and there are numerous headwinds and obstacles to financial progress within the broader African-American community, namely the ability to pay down mounting debt.
However, there's no doubt that "there's a distinct need for advisors to serve African-Americans, and the study shows that African-Americans are less likely to be contacted by an advisor than any other market segment," he says.
Many advisors may not be doing the needful because they feel they're not from the community, but that's not a requirement at all, Davis says. It's important for an advisor to have an understanding of different communities and to invest resources to learn about their unique cultural peculiarities. For instance, African-Americans are more likely to live in multigenerational homes headed by women, and many provide financial support to other family members, he says. But an advisor needn't be a part of a particular community to serve it well.
Prudential's study is based on a March 2013 poll of 1,153 African-Americans and 471 general-population Americans on a broad range of financial topics. Respondents were 25 to 70 years old, with a household income of $25,000 or more and with some involvement in household financial decisions. Among those meeting the survey criterion of $25,000 or more in household income, the median household income was $61,000.


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In this month's issue of Glamour, Rashida Jones penned a defense of her tweets telling female celebrities to "#stopactinglikewhores." Despite Rashida's defense that she's a feminist, see, and that's why what she said was ok, her words were anything but ok.
Rashida defended herself by saying that she was not only not a prude, but she was a feminist, and she was merely complaining about how common it is to see female pop stars half-naked and performing for the male gaze. But her tweets did not contain criticism of patriarchal institutions; they contained criticism of the women who don't overthrow those institutions. Once again, women are to blame for their own oppression. We just can't win, can we?
The issue isn't that Miley and Rihanna perform in very little clothing, or that regardless of their intentions, they can be construed as performing for the male gaze. The issue is that when Tegan & Sara and Janelle Monae perform fully clothed and in a way that is clearly and undeniably queer, they are not given the same kind of success that Miley and Rihanna are. But that is not the fault of Miley and Rihanna, it is the fault of a racist, patriarchal music industry that will not let anyone else in. It is the fault of a music industry who will only promote fully-clothed artists when they are white and racially appropriative, like Adele, but will not promote Jill Scott, India Arie, or Chrisette Michele. Stop telling Miley and Rihanna to put on some clothes, and start telling music execs to back and promote female artists who don't show as much skin and who cater to an audience other than straight men.
But back to Rashida's use of the word "whore." In both her tweets, and her Glamour article, Rashida points to sex workers – "whores" – as the problem. They are the women that we should not act like, who we should distance ourselves, who we should cry for and then castigate. This is hardly new for sex workers; feminist have been calling sex workers traitors and pointing to them as the enemy for decades. But for a wave of feminism that has supposedly improved dramatically upon the sins of the past, it is rather shocking not just to see Rashida base her feminism on whorephobia, but to see such support for that whorephobia.
Rashida's whorephobia is all the more troubling when you consider that women of color and LGBTQ people make up a disproportionate amount of those in the sex trade. These are not only people who do not have the same history of sexuality that straight, white, cis women do, but who patriarchy considers to be sexually defective in one way or another. This is especially true for queers of color, who frequently turn to survival sex work when they cannot find employment elsewhere, and who are then harassed by police, stopped and frisked, and imprisoned at astronomical rates. But rather than support those who most represent the literal breakdown of the gender binary (supposedly a goal of the feminist movement), Rashida Jones, as a feminist, says we should be distancing ourselves from them. And who does Rashida suggest we follow? Lily Allen, in her racially appropriative video.
What's more, it frightens me that no one pointed this out. On Jezebel, a website that is routinely held up as being too sex-positive, no one pointed out that one of the darker sides of feminist history is the longstanding tendency to make sex workers the enemy. Is this what sex positivity is now, a movement for straight, white college girls who celebrate photographing their vulvas to show the diversity of labia length and pubic hair and who trade tips on vibrator brands, but who do not stand up for the rights of those in the sex trade, who think of intersectionality as too academic, and who see inclusion of queer sexuality in the mainstream as a niche issue? Because that is not a movement I have any interest in being part of.


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Morning Five: 04.03.14 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on April 3rd, 2014
- Fans in the AAC can start working on their cell phone and texting jokes as Houston hired Kelvin Sampson to be its next coach. Sampson was successful at both Oklahoma and Indiana before a variety of issues that have been documented in great detail before derailed him leading to a five-year show-cause penalty in 2008. Sampson has spent the last six years floating between jobs in the NBA and was serving as an assistant for the Houston Rockets so he might not even have to move for his new job although he might be moving into a bigger house with the upgrade in his salary. Much like the Bruce Pearl hire this has to be considered a huge get for the program, but we have to wonder how long he will stay there..
- After what has to be considered a successful first season for Steve Alford things are looking pretty good at UCLA. However, accusations by a spurned sports agent that he provided former Bruin Tyler Honeycutt with impermissible benefits could halt that progress. The school had previously investigated the matter and said that the NCAA ruled the case closed, but with the new documentation they will have to investigate the matter further. This is the second such incident involving UCLA in the past two years (Shabazz Muhammad being the more well-known case), but we wouldn't consider it an issue with the school. Our bigger question is why do these issues typically arise with mid-level players and not the real stars?
- With many of the bigger jobs being filled or in the process of being filled the attention on the coaching carousel shifts to the mid-tier schools. One example of this is North Carolina Central coach LeVelle Morton, who is reportedly interviewing at Florida Atlantic and Marshall. Morton has led the Eagles to better records in each of his five seasons culminating in a NCAA Tournament appearance this season. His move might not move the needle nationally, but it could lead him to an even bigger job in the future.
- Chane Behanan cannot seem to avoid getting in trouble. The former Louisville forward, who was kicked off the team for marijuana use, has already enrolled at Colorado State, but took a trip back to Louisville this week. At 1 AM on Wednesday morning he was cited, but not arrested for marijuana possession after a police officer smelled marijuana in a car in which Behanan was a passenger. Behanan reportedly admitted to having a marijuana cigarette. Although he was not arrested he will have a court date later this month. Avoiding the whole social discussion regarding the legalization of marijuana one has to question Behanan's maturity at this point for getting arrested for something after he has already been through so much.
- Next season could be a rough one for Missouri after Jabari Brown announced that he would enter the NBA Draft. Brown joins fellow junior Jordan Clarkson in potentially leaving Missouri early although both could withdraw their names from the Draft by April 15 depending on what they hear. Brown was a first-team All-SEC player this season and led the conference in scoring at 19.9 points per game. Like Clarkson, Brown is also projected to be a second-round pick so it would seem to make sense for him to return, but it would not be the first time that we have seen a player leave early for that type of fate.


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This epic novel has touched everyone I've talked to who has read it. Spanning continents and generations, with unforgettable characters and a story that takes us from a small mission hospital in Ethiopia (gotta love the name Missing, mispronunciation of Mission Hospital) on to India and America. There is something for everyone in this novel: the often unique relationship between twins, the incredible love of adoptive parents, the struggles of doing medicine in remote places, the challenges of immigration to a new country, and the pain of losing someone that you love.
In the book, Marion observes that in Ethiopia, patients assume that all illnesses are fatal and that death is expected, but in America, news of having a fatal illness "always seemed to come as a surprise, as if we took for granted that we were immortal".
The title Cutting for Stone is more than a play on words about a surgeon called Stone. It comes from the Hippocratic Oath "I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art". Verghese has said that this line comes from ancient times when stone cutters would go digging for bladder stones and the patient would usually die of infection.
Medical stuff has always intrigued me, but I love the part when Thomas Stone asks "What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?" The answer is memorable. In order not to spoil it, I won't tell you here, but if you've already read the book and have forgotten, just ask and I'll tell you!


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Vendor List
I love the new "vendor list" feature but am having trouble adding vendors who do not have existing Knot accounts. I believe this is a very strong attribute for The Knot to gain data from bride clients. Whenever I type in a vendor who does not have a Knot account already, it says "Can't find vendor? Google Search". Then when you click on that, it does nothing. Am I missing something, is this still being fixed, or is there a way around this?
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I am also experiencing this problem - has it been fixed?
Dinala commented
My vendor comes up if I go to Google.com and search from them but not if I type them in here and select search Google. In fact they are the first results on the page at Google.com
Katy Hunter commented
It would be great if we could add our own vendors, people that aren't listed. I have a woman doing my makeup but it won't allow me to add her to my vendors list.
Caroline Abbott commented
So basically, you should be able to write-in your own vendor, instead of looking them up on google.
In fact, I see that there are numerous complaints about this. I can only conclude that TheKnot doesn't care what users want, since such a basic function is being ignored. I'm going to look elsewhere.
So, it's been 180 days since Meuy posted that it would be 30-45 days. I'm not able to add custom vendors that The Knot can't find on Google. This is making me question whether this app is useful enough for me to use. It's a pretty big issue!
Amanda D commented
This still is not resolved. A simple text entry only option would suffice. Just to be able to list vendors all in one place regardless of whether they appear on Google.
Wandra commented
Vendor issue has still not been resolved. Cannot add new vendors. I feel that you should not put the option on the website until the glitch has been corrected. It waste a lot of time trying to figure it out just to find out later that it's the system that not working instead of user error.
Megan commented
Has this been resolved yet? We are well beyond the 30-45 days. It's frustrating not being able to actually put your vendors in the vendor section. The planning aspect of the website is somewhat obsolete without that capability.
GINA commented
I Agree! Self-entry on the vendor list is a must, not just if the are members or a Google storefront.
Brooklyn commented
Agreed! I think it would be best to have an option to manually enter information.
For businesses like catering, music & photography many people opt to use a friend of a friend to save money. Many of these businesses don't necessarily have websites and many work from their homes. There definitely needs to be more flexibility with this aspect of the wedding planner!
Amanda commented
Yes, I am feeling frustrated with this problem as well. My photographer and my coordinator are not on the Knot's current list and I am unable to add their information. Would love to see this feature fixed soon! Thanks :)


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May is Scouting Month at Splash Car Wash
We started in the month racing... pinewood derby cars. The Cub Scouts came from all over Fairfield County to host their regional pinewood derby championship in New Canaan. That same day they also held their Soapbox Derby downhill races.
We at Splash are hosting a month long region wide fundraiser for the Boy Scouts of America. Each Scout Troop is giving out coupons that are good for $1 off a Car Wash & $1 donation to the Boy Scouts.
As there are more than 30,000 scouts in the area that could add up quickly.
Want to take part ? Get in touch with your local Scout troop to get your coupons
As you can see this was a well attended event and a beautiful day to boot.
Splash Car Wash was there, with both our big hummer & our new Tiny Hummer. One of our scout masters took the time to make a true-to-life scale model Splash Car Wash Hummer. Pretty much every detail was translated perfectly & weighing in at 5 ounces it was race legal. Though we didn't win our exhibition race, some of those scouts built some very lighting fast designs.


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The content of best practice methods and frameworks such as ITIL®, PRINCE2® and MSP® enables people to speak a common language of IT service management, projects and programmes.
However, the terminology needs to be chosen carefully to account for tone and translation to different languages: wherever best practice is used, it needs to make people's working lives easier, not harder!
Previously, feedback on AXELOS best practices told us the language and examples were essentially UK-centric.
Clearly, not everything originated in British English can be translated into another language; in fact, some things don't even translate to other English-speaking countries. A phrase as simple as "bricks and mortar" can be tricky for those of us who were not raised in the UK and can leave us 'scratching our heads'.
When working with the architect team tasked with updating ITIL – which has ultimately become ITIL 4 – we needed to ensure the terminology would work in countries as diverse as the USA and India, as well as the UK.
And, indeed, the ITIL 4 architect team was itself very international, including experts from Russia, India, Australia, Latin America, the USA and Japan.
As well as discussing the ITIL 4 principles of value co-creation and the service value system, the team debated terminology to unify and harmonize content for different geographies.
50% of people who sit AXELOS exams in English are not native speakers, even if English is their business language. Therefore, it is essential to make sure key terminology is acceptable to anyone, whatever language they speak and where.
For example, if a Japanese company uses ITIL to manage IT services, it needs to be sure that everyone using the framework can distinguish the difference between a "problem" and an "issue" and understand what each means.
For ITIL 4, we are still engaging with end users, reviewers and editors and making changes based on the feedback we're getting, as some phrases might not work in the way we thought they would. As one of the ITIL 4 guiding principles says, progress iteratively with feedback!
In the previous version of ITIL, we used the term "processes" to describe the core approach to managing IT services. In ITIL 4, the concept is expanded to include other elements – such as culture, technology and data management. Processes remain, but they don't tell the whole story.
So, to be as specific and consistent as possible, we agreed on the word "practices" to become fundamental to the ITIL 4 framework.
The service value system in ITIL 4 now includes 34 management practices which are sets of organizational resources for performing work or accomplishing an objective. For example, project management, change control and service design.
As ever, the ITIL guidance isn't prescriptive and you need to adapt the different "tools in the toolbox" to accomplish what you need to.
Therefore, the chosen terminology of "practice" means putting things into practice rather than a process to be implemented. Certainly, each practice will have some processes attached, but will also combine other factors.
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Looking on the other side of the Sultanhamet garden, one can discover the Blue Mosquee. She was named after the 20,000 mainly blue stained glasses which are allow the light to enter the praying area inside.
During the shot, there were an historic show with music and lights explaing how the gardens and the Mosquee was built between 1609 and 1616 just in front of the Agya Sofia cathedral I already presented you. In the lower part, you can see the enlighten wall which shows the limit between the Mosquee and the gardens. As you may guess from here, the volume of the Mosquee is huge and once inside, I was really breathtaken by its beauty and the decorations.
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dsidwell (9783) 2005-08-01 13:56
Lovely colors and tones here, Steven! You might try to "correct" the keystoning in the image, simply because I can't see that it adds to the image any. I like the composition and exposure here.
timotey (119) 2005-08-02 4:45
I remember the last picture you've taken of this place. This one is already good with the choice of taking it by night. It gives us nice articial light thats focus on the various shapes of this particula architecture. The blue of the sky is great and gives contrast to increase the sight of this cathedral. Very well done !
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In many parts of the world (Asia, Europe, the Middle East), people eat testicles. I don't know how healthy they are, but they are supposed to be tasty, and in some cultures considered an aphrodisiac. They are often called animelles or lamb fries (the latter referring to sheep testicles). Yes, you can get these in the USA too. I personally think one reason why most Americans never hear of such things is because most Americans can barely say the word "penis" without reverting to the mentality of a 13 year old and giggling like a prepubescent teenager. Historically speaking, when people didn't eat mass-produced, highly processed shit (ie most of the American meat industry) people would actually consume nearly the entire animal. Parts such as cow tongue, cow brain, etc were considered delicacy.
I think that the "tastes like balls" idiom is meant to evoke an image of licking a scrotum attached to a live human male, not of consuming cooked and seasoned testes. So, I don't think that this idiom is a fair example of American narrow-mindedness with respect to offal.


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Chiricahua National Monument Historic Designed Landscape, Cochise County, Arizona
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources.
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NPS Photograph: Chiricahua National Monument
Located within the Chiricahua National Monument, the Chiricahua National Monument Historic Designed Landscape consists of approximately 10,000 acres of stunning wilderness. Administered by the National Park Service, this scenic wilderness is 120 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona, and located in the northwest portion of the Chiricahua Mountain range in southeastern Arizona. The Chiricahua National Monument is best known for the rock pinnacles for which the monument was created to protect. Rising sometimes hundreds of feet into the air, many of these pinnacles are balancing on a small base, seemingly ready to topple over at any time. The geological formations, enormous rhyolite columns in strange, eroded shapes, were created 27 million years ago from a series of eruptions from the Turkey Creek Caldera, an ancient volcano located eight miles south. The Civilian Conservation Corps, during their occupation here in the 1930s, named many of the rock formations that can be seen today.
Other natural features related to the geology of the monument include shallow caves, faults, mountain formations, soils, the Turkey Creek Caldera, and lava flows. As well as the exceptional geological aspects of this park, the monument hosts a biological crossroads, a meeting-place of four different ecological regions. In the Chiricahua Mountains the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts, and the Rocky Mountain and Sierra Madre ranges, all meet. The convergence of these four biomes makes this area unusually rich in both floral and faunal biodiversity. Rocky Mountain representatives such as the Ponderosa pine and Engelmann spruce co-exist beside the Soap tree yucca from the Chihuahuan desert. Stately Arizona sycamore and various types of oak dot the well-watered canyons. Apache pine grows at the most northern end of the Sierra Madre range. Chihuahua pine is found, as are Douglas and White fir, Arizona cypress, Cane cholla, Prickly pear and several species of ferns, mushrooms, and fungi. Arizona white-tail deer, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, grey foxes, and various lizards and snakes all dwell here. Birds vary with the seasons.
Snow covered rhyolite columns
NPS Photograph: Chiricahua National Monument
Despite the local wildlife, it was the unique geographic features that captured attention. The monument was established by President Calvin Coolidge in 1924 to protect and preserve these geological features. Edward M. Riggs (1885-1950), owner of the adjacent Faraway Ranch, constructed numerous trails during its early years so that visitors at his ranch might view the features within the "Wonderland of Rocks". The Chiricahua National Monument Historic Designed Landscape was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 2008.
The period of historic significance for the Chiricahua National Monument Historic Designed Landscape spans 1924 to 1940, which mark the time of the founding of the park through its early development by the US Forest Service and Edward M. Riggs. The primary features that exist today from this period are Bonita Canyon Highway and portions of the early trail system. In 1934 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp NM2A was established and the men housed there continued the construction of the remaining features of the monument. Ed Riggs, as a foreman at the CCC Camp, designated and developed most of the modern trails. The CCC camp terminated in 1940. Since then, there has been modernization of some structures, and in 1976, the US Congress decided to further preserve the land, designating 87% of the monument as Wilderness. This precludes any further development, thus ensuring the preservation of the geological formations for future generations and the continuation of undisturbed space and habitat for the many unique plants and animals that are found in this special region.
Faraway Ranch
NPS Photograph: Chiricahua National Monument
Major development of the monument began in 1932 during the Great Depression and continued until 1940. In 1932 the US Forest Service (USFS), the administrating agency, in conjunction with the Bureau of Public Roads, constructed the Bonita Canyon Highway. After the transfer of administration to the National Park Service (NPS) in 1933, NPS architects, engineers, and landscape architects planned the layout and development of the monument's other structures and buildings using principles of naturalistic landscape design and rustic architecture, taking into account the natural environmental landscape and aesthetics to produce the roads, trails, buildings and other sites that would help people enjoy the natural beauty of the monument. The Civilian Conservation Corps camp, NM2A, which housed the young men, provided labor to build hiking trails, upgrade the USFS road, and construct administration, residential utility and visitor service buildings. The Trail System represents the primary recreational opportunity at Chiricahua National Monument. Most of the individual trails are located in the southeastern portion of the monument.. The trails encircle and enter the area of greatest scenic value known as the "Wonderland of Rocks".
Turkey prints
NPS Photograph: Chiricahua National Monument
The history of the region, supplied by archaeological evidence, shows that the Chiricahua Apache used the area as part of their home range during Spanish, Mexican, and later American historic periods. The Chiricahua Apache viewed the monumental area as a sacred site. They also used Bonita Canyon as an east-west transportation route and utilized the local environment to procure water and food materials—items necessary for survival. The Chiricahua Apache were permanently removed from the area in 1886.
The name Chiricahua is an Opata Indian word meaning "wild turkey," according to Jesuit Juan Nentvig, writing from northwest Mexico between 1750 and 1767. Dwelling in what is now Sonora. Mexico, the Opata found many wild turkeys in the mountain range. Most of the wild turkeys had vanished from the region by the mid-1900s. Gould's wild turkeys, one of two subspecies of wild turkey dwelling today in Arizona and south of the border in Mexico, were released in 2003 back into the Chiricahua Mountains by the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the National Wild Turkey Federation.
Bridge in Campground
NPS Photograph: Chiricahua National Monument
Development of the monument occurred during the height of the naturalistic landscape design and rustic architectural styles. National Park Service landscape architects and engineers directed many of the individual construction projects. Construction was accomplished using hard labor provided by Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees. These enrollees were taught technical skills and trained by locally employed men who were highly skilled in each of their crafts. Construction materials for buildings were collected from the local landscape. Rubble boulders or stone cut from a quarry on the south side of the monument provided most of the building material. Plants were also collected from the immediate area and transported to cover any landscape damage that occurred during construction. The integrity of the buildings and structures is high. The original design styles, construction techniques and materials are readily apparent.
Exerted from Robin Lothrop Pinto (with assistance from R. Brooks Jeffery and Mike Lovato), Chiricahua National Monument Historic Designed Landscape NRHP nomination, Arizona SHPO, August 8, 1997 and Chiricahua National Monument National Park Service website, http://www.nps.gov/chir/index.htm


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A bureau missing its drawers, or a dresser with three legs - most Montrealers are used to seeing discarded furniture sitting on the curb, making a pit stop to the dumpster. But this commonplace sight would come to change Dorothy Kryworuchko's career path entirely. "It's a strange thing. I always felt badly because I would see furniture on the wayside and it just looked lonely."
This fall, Kryworuchko officially launched Deuxième Debut, a home-and-web-based venture where she and her husband, David Languedoc, revamp rescued furniture to resell and "bring back to a useful life."
Their story begins at Grand Prix, 2002. Kryworuchko had left a career in finance in Toronto to move to Montreal to be with Languedoc - and the couple was in the middle of renovating their 4,000-plus square foot building on the corner of St. Jacques and Laporte in St. Henri to open up a bed and breakfast.
Like most other accommodations in the city, they were completely booked for the race weekend. Then they ran out of money. "We were down to the bare walls, no insulation, exposed wiring," Kryworuchko recalls. "And I had to furnish all these rooms."
They toiled as close to round-the-clock as exhaustion would allow to finish. Then, to furnish the rooms on the cheap, they scoured garage sales and street corners for reusable furniture. "We hadn't showered in days, but we were done when the first guest arrived."
Their efforts proved habit forming. "After that I'd see furniture driving along, and I'd throw it in the car and just keep on going," she says.
Soon Languedoc was using their rescued pieces to hone his wood-refinishing skills on their finds, and Kryworuchko was experimenting with contemporary fabrics and funky paint finishes.
Today, the couple's home, atelier and vacation rental (all in the same building) have become something of a shrine to their creations. "We strongly believe in reusing furniture, so our home is mostly filled up with older furniture that we've redone, same thing with the vacation rental," says Kryworuchko.
The atelier where they work is tucked behind the storefront space on the ground floor - stuffed to the ceiling with projects in various states of completion. Among its treasures (most of which are for sale, and each of which has its own story), is an elegant occasional table painted in distressed French country Parisian grey, with pretty silver handles. "Found it on the street, somebody had pitched it, so picked it up, sanded it down, cleaned it, primed it, distressed it and varnished it," explains Kryworuchko.
In another corner is a small night table with mirrors on the facade of its three drawers. "We'll get the drawers functioning properly, and usually I'm the one that does most of that kind of repair work. Dorothy will do the deck and the sides, and the painting of course," says Languedoc.
The couple works as a team - but they're clear on the division of labour. "We'll call her the creative director, I'm the grunt guy," jokes Languedoc. In fact, he's the restorer, while she's the re-purposer.
"David's specialty is taking old furniture and totally redoing it in the old fashioned way," says Kryworuchko, pointing to an antique wood dresser with serpentine design. "These handles were all sanded down and rubbed up and varnished. Then David stripped the wood right down and stained it."
Kryworuchko, on the other hand, reinvents furniture that has no other hope of being saved - by mixing and matching hardware, using different paint techniques, and adding textiles. Her work comes in every imaginable style - French country, shabby chic, vintage and Hollywood Regency. "When I get a new piece, I let it sit," she says. "There have been pieces I've done two or three times because I'd paint it a certain colour and it didn't look happy."
Their specialties are different, but their desire to rejuvenate old furniture is born out of a shared disdain for throwaway culture. Says Languedoc: "I'm probably getting more extreme in my older years, but there's a huge amount of waste out there. People throwing away perfectly good functional stuff. We're fixing them and taking them back to a useful life."
They're also picky about paint - and whenever possible use products low in volatile organic chemicals (VOCs). "When paint dries the solvents evaporate and it's not good for the environment," says Languedoc. "It's not good for you either," laughs Kryworuchko.
Like each of their unique pieces, they've also given their building a second start. "It's an old building, but it looks pretty fabulous," says Kryworuchko. "But when we moved in the place was a dump. We've redone it down to the bare walls."
In the unit they used as a bed and breakfast (which they turned into a vacation rental a couple of years ago to have more time to focus on furniture), they installed beautiful wide-plank pine floors, exposed brick walls, and sanded off a dozen or more layers of thick paint on the handsome wooden staircase. They even unearthed an original skylight in one of the bathrooms.
"There was plastic and all this stuff covering it up, we kind of saw the light coming down so we just started digging in there," says Kryworuchko.
As it happens, furniture is not the only thing the couple is passionate about rescuing. Maggie, their Pomeranian-Chihuahua mix, was adopted following a puppy mill raid. And when they hosted the grand opening of Deuxième Debut, at an aptly-named event called Le Début de Deuxième Debut, at their building earlier this fall, proceeds from sales went to Petits Pawz animal rescue shelter.
For Kryworuchko, the rescue philosophy is the same, whether it's the building, the animals, or the furniture. "Or me," she jokes. "I'm in my 50s, and it takes a little bit of work to get me up to looking better. And sometimes I look at my furniture that way too. It needs sprucing up, a little bit of make-up and some new clothes."
Deuxième Debut creations can be seen online at deux iemedebut.com. The couple also plans to open a retail space in the spring.